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of a oont S3t whWh will be shot at intervals during the season at 1,000 

 yard? di-itauce, t .verity shots per man. The trophies will be awarded 

 to the makers ■ >:' ,i ■ hrj i ;i ;i.-t;ri'-:iti j scores in all the competitions 

 The club has opened a correspondence with Major A. Bleimerhassel 

 Leach, of Dublin, Ireland, who successfully arxangedthe flrs! interna- 

 tional Long-range rifle match between Ireland and America ta 1874, 



country to contest a long-range match with AJnerimn riflemen at 

 Oreedmoor duriog the month of September, either before or after the 

 iutc-rnational miiitaiy ; match. It is pr..babl.- that some of Lvland's 



event it will only be necessary to add to the number from Irish 

 sharpshooters who arc not members <>( Hi* British Volunteer forces in 

 order to organize a t"; ■■, ■■■ ■;_; •;.:,, ,--. ,- H six, the numler . -.im- 

 posing the respective ri.-'.e teams iu the pioneer international rille 

 match of 1874. Major Leach has not yet been heard from on the 

 subject, but his well-known sanguine temperament leads the pro- 

 moters of the enterprise to believe that he will enter heartily into the 

 scheme. 



FALL RIVER. Mass.— The Fall River Gun Club held its first semi- 

 monthly shoot for an elegant silver cup, Thursday, March 23,1, open to 

 all residents of Fall River and vicinity, at ten glass balls, eighteen 

 yards, and fen clay pigeons, fifteen vards rise. Cup to become the 

 property of the first person winning' it five times. The following is 

 the score: 



Balls. Birds. 



E W Buffinton 1111110111—9 1111111111—10-19 



J B Valentine 1011011111-8 1111111111—10—10 



W ,1 uraley 1110111111—0 Ulltunil— 9—18 



WHSueldon liiniiiio— 9 miioioii— 8— 17 



JM Wood... 1111011110—8 0111011110— 7—15 



H B Curtis OoinlOlllO— 5 101 1 1 10110— 7— 12 



II V Blankenship 0010000000 -l iioooomi— 6— 7 



E. W. Buffinton wins cup for the first time. 



Sweep, live balls and live birds, three prizes. 



W J Bradley 1101 11 11 11-9 Miller 0100111110-6 



Valentine HOlOlIlll— 8 Curtis 1O00011001— 4 



Buffinton .100111110-7 Wilbur 0000011000—5 



Bradley, 1st ; Valentine,*!.; Buffinton, 3d. 



HOOSIi IK FALLS, March 27.— We organized a gun club here known 

 as the lloosick Falls Central (Inn Club, organized with twenty-five 

 members. The officers elo.-te 1 for the ensuing year were John 

 Holton, President; C.'ias. II. Young. Vice-President; Chas. C. Cleve- 



ad, Beet bai ; Chas. Palmer. Treasurer. The club had its first 

 monthly shoot Saturday. March 20. 1882; there was a goodly numb. 

 of gentlemen present. Card's rotary trap was used; some of the bo-.... 

 never before shot from a rotary trap, and Veteran Holton did re- 

 markably n-ell at the trap, b. dug sixty years old. 



P Carney 01 101 1 10 -5 H Mills 01011110—5 



L W Sanders 10I01HO— 5 W Haley. Jr 00011010—3 



C Palmer 10010110—4 W Haley, Sr OlOllluO— 4 



CC Cleveland 01011010-4 C Walker 01001010-3 



.1 Holton 11011 1 10— 6 L Cross 10111100—0 



Robt Kilony 0111 11 11— 7 H Warhor 10001010—3 



H Soung on inn —7 



The club bids fair to rank with the first in Rensellaer county at our 

 nest- monthly shoot, which takes place April 27th. G. V. S. Young, 

 the one-arm shot gives an exhibition of skill. 



MATTAWAN, New Jersey, March 10, 1882.— The third regular con- 

 test of the Midway Shooting Club for three prizes, one barrel, 



3 Lamberson 1111 1—5 G Geran Ill 1—4 



W Hughes 1 1 1 1 1—5 A Heritage 1 1 1—3 



D Hyer 11111—5 W Holmes 111-3 



SLainberson 11111—5 K Warren 111—3 



W Dunlap 1111 1-5 T Riddle 1 1 1-3 



J Ivans, .jr 1111—4 C Britten 111—3 



WE Johnson.. 1111—4 L Campbell 111—3 



Warren l 1 1 1—4 



Shoot off. miss and out. Ties of 5: Dunlay 0; Hughes 2; J Lamberson 

 8: Hyer and S Lamberson tie again on 4. Second shoot off: Hyer 1; 

 Lamberson Band wins first. Ties of 4: Geran 1: Wan-en 2; others 

 miss. Ties of 3: Campbell 1 ; Britten 2; Kiddle 3 and wins. 



March 10. 1883.- Second contest of Midway Shooting Club for two 

 prizes. Ties, miss and out. 



Yds. Yds. 



J Lamherson . . . . 29 11111-^5 L Campbell 28 1110 1—4 



A Heritage 26 11111—5 W Hughes 29 11010—3 



K Warren 26 1111 0—4 J Ivans, Jr...... 24 110 1 0—3 



WE Johnson.... 23 110 11-4 T Riddle 22 10110-3 



J Beadle 23 1111 0—4 S Lamberson ... . 29 1100 



W Holmes 25 11110—1 C Warren 26 1100 



WJJDimlap 27 10 11 1—4 



Shoot off. Ties of 5: Heritage 0; Lamberson 1; wins first. Ties of 

 4: Campbell 2; Dunlap 2: Holmes 2; Johnson 3; Beadle 4; wins second. 



COLFAX, Iowa, March 21.— The monthly shootforthe club badge of 

 the Spring City Rod and (Inn Club, took place yesterday, at twenty 

 glass balls each, thrown from Card's rotary traps, with screen used 

 and trap revolved. The weather was in poor condition for shooting; 

 a heavy fog hung over the grounds, and the smoke from the guns 

 made it very difficult to see a ball. The members of the club were all 

 present except G. C. O'Neall, who was in Chicago; Capt. Richards, 

 who was unable to be present; Jesse Slavens, who was on the sick 

 list. The boys did nobly owing to the weather; below is the score: 



F W Porterfield 00101110111101111110—14 



James McKe.on 10011111 1 1 101 1101111— 16 



C Whitmore .....1111101101)101111101—16 



J A McHenry. : 11)001100011000111101— 10 



Noma Wesfon... - 11110011011111111111—17 



ES Manning 11101110111111110111—17 



PH Cragan llllllllllllllllllll— 20 



J Born, Jr 00100101111111101101—18 



J R Rodgers 01011110110000111111—13 



BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -On Fast Day, April 7. the Bridgeport Gun 



Club of from f> to 10 iu a team, will shoot the New Haven Gun Club of 

 the same number for a purse. The challenge came from the New 

 Haven G. C. and was accepted by us. Ten (day pigeons and ten glass 

 8yds.; glass balls, 21yds. rise, to be shot on the 





J. W 



yiBUKKN. 



[fle contest for a sharps military rifle has finally 

 jnuenberg's Range, Hoboken. The gun was put in 

 the hands of Mr Bohdenberg, by Mr. B. F. Hart of Hoboken. Private 

 D. \V. Beardsley of the Admirals Kitle Association, of Hoboken, was 

 the victor, shooting 32 out of a possible 35. The target was a 25yd. 

 target, Creetlmoor, reduced at a distance of 135ft.— A. Arment. 



CLAY PIGEONS. -Cheboygan, Mich., March 20.- The Cheboygan 



Gun Club held th 



blew moderately l'r< 

 rain, winch made i 

 everything Into col 

 lay pigeons have o 



give 



glass balls, as 

 with the wine 

 take them o 

 Cooper, the v 

 fifteen birds, 

 clay pigeons, 

 Olbs. powder; thi 



•ekly shoot on Saturday March 18. The wind 

 l the southeast, accompanied by a fine drizzling 

 it very unpleasant for the participants. Taking 

 iisideration very good scores were made, as the 

 inly lately been introduced into Cheboygan. They 

 ion. and the majority of the club prefer them to 

 resemble more t tie flight of a bird. When they go 

 a question, sometimes, whether the shot will over- 

 . The prize for the best score was won by I. S. 

 esident of the club, who made a clean score of 

 scores made in the shoot were as follows: Fifteen 

 ards rise. First prize. 251bs. shot; second prize, 

 I prize. 500 pr~ - 



Humphrey ... 110011011110111—11 Hodge 111001111111111-13 



Kitchen 1111) 1111 1 1 1110—14 Mullen 110111010011011—10 



Cooper 1111)1111111111—15 Rapp 111100011001011— 9 



Ford 101111110111111—13 Waterman 01 1111111111011-13 



Errett OlOOlOOllllllll— 10 Perriu 111111110111111—14 



Smith 1 101 101 1 1 110111—12 



Ties for second and third. Miss and out. 



Kitchen 111—3 Perrin 110—2 Ford ..110—2 



Hodge 1111111110—9 Waterman 1111111111—10 



THE EXTERMINATION OF GAME. 



[Editorial in New York Swrt, March 27.] 



r rVLtE day when our buffalo, or bison, will become extinct 

 -L seems to be near at hand. The coming generation is 

 likely to know the animal only as we know the mammoth 

 and the great auk, by seeing preserved specimens in natural 

 history museums. Nor is the buffalo alone passing away. 

 All the other large game of the Western Territories is now 

 slaughtered at such a rate by sportsmen and men who make 

 a business of selling the hides and meat of the animals that 

 they must before long become as rare at the far West as they 

 now are at the East. 



Large game is at present most plentiful in Montana and 

 Wyoming. Consequently, the hunters for pelts have made 

 those Territories the scene of their operations, and amateur 

 sportsmen, domestic and foreign, are to be found there in 

 considerable numbers throughout the open game season, 

 which lasts from the first of August to the first of February 

 or March. It is lawful then to kill the game, provided their 

 meat is utilized. But, as matter of fact, the slaughter is 

 done chiefly in order to secure the pelts, and these now being 

 comparatively high in price, the incentive to destroy the buf- 

 faloes, deer, elk and antelopes is greater than ever. In the 

 closed season under the law, too, the work of destruction goes 

 on with few checks. The region is so vast and thinly popu- 

 lated there is so little vigor in enforcing the law, and the 

 cost of its execution is so great, that it is almost a dead 

 letter. Even at the East, despite the most strenuous exer- 

 tions of sportsmen's associations, it has been found impos- 

 sible to altogether prevent the killing of game out of season, 

 or by methods which are illegal and outrageous. In Wy- 

 oming and Montana, of course, the difficulty of protecting it 

 from wanton slaughter, or that done from motives of pecuni- 

 ary greed, is far greater. 



During the shooting season, the Adirondacks are overrun 

 with sportsmen of one sort and another. That mountain 

 region has become of late years the seat of many resorts 

 which are growing more and more fashionable. The day 

 w r hen the comparatively small amount of game remaining 

 will be driven out of the North Woods is therefore fast ap- 

 proaching. All the shooting grounds of Long Island which 

 are not closely guarded by private owners are crowded with 

 men with guns throughout the season of flight for the birds. 

 It is the same in New Jersey and further south. Since 

 Florida has become a great winter and spring resort, the 

 banging of guns is heard constantly in all parts of the penin- 

 sula. The destruction of game is going on at a rate which 

 is rapidly spoiling all the snooting grounds of the country . 



The poor migratory birds have a hard straggle for life. 

 As a correspondent of Forest and Stream remarks: "From 

 the time the ducks and geese cross the forty-ninth parallel in 

 September on their way South, and their return again in 

 May, they are under a constant fusilade, the badly wounded 

 numbering about as many as those bagged ; and so with the 

 snipe." The grouse are going the same way. "The work 

 on them is of shorter duration, but fare more effective, for 

 every sportsman of the Eastern States is dumped out on the 

 prairies of the West, and there is a constant banging heard 

 in every township for several months." The amount of 

 game has much decreased in the Mississippi Valley within 

 six or seven years, and soon the condition with respect to it 

 will be the same there aslt is in the Northern States to the 

 east of the Alleghanies. 



As to the large game, the construction of the Union Pacific 

 Railroad drove it out of Colorado, there being no efficient 

 laws for its protection; and now the Northern Pacific- 

 promises to do the same for Montana and Wyoming. Two 

 or three years ago the price of deer and antelope skins there 

 was less than fifteen cents a pound, and of elk skins less 

 than twelve cents. As a consequence, the motive to kill the 

 animals was not great, unless they were wanted for food. 

 The business of gathering pelts was not profitable enough. 

 But since then deer and antelope pelts have risen to twenty- 

 five and thirty-five cents, and elk skins, which had before 

 been of little value, rose last spring to twenty-two and 

 twenty-five cents a pound, $2.50 to .$? a hide. Accordingly, 

 it has become profitable to destroy the animals. The writer 

 from whom we have already quoted gives figures to show 

 the rate at which the slaughter goes on since the price of 

 pelts advanced. From the. Yellowstone and Missouri rivers 

 there were shipped in 1880 and 1881 the following number 

 of hides: 



1880. 1881. 



Buffalo 27,700 116,000 



Deer and antelope 107,000 143,000 



Elk 5,200 



Total 104,700 264,200 



The value of these shipments in money on the river bank 

 was nearly $450,000 in 1881. But the sum had to be dis- 

 tributed among a large number of persons, the correspondent 

 of the Forest and Stream estimating them at as many as 

 fifteen hundred. With very few exceptions, he says," the 

 buffalo hunters make only a bare living, The expenses for 

 provisions, ammunition, labor, and other necessities are high 

 and constant, and the contingencies of their business are 

 many. Their work, too, is of the hardest kind, and must 

 be done during the severest winter weather. 



The number of hides shipped does not by any means rep- 

 resent the whole number of animals killed." Twenty -five or 

 thirty per cent, should be added before we include all. We 

 must, therefore, estimate the total in 1881 at about three 

 hundred thousand. This writer, even allowing for a con- 

 siderable natural increase annually, concludes that "the 

 large bands of buffaloes will last 'about four years at the 

 present rate of killing." Then their entire extirpation will 

 be only a matter of time. 



In view of the futility of the efforts of the Territorial 

 authorities to protect the game, Mr. Post'of Wyoming has 

 introduced into Congress a bill making it unlawful for any 

 person or persons to kill or destroy any elk, deer, antelope, 

 buffalo, mountain sheep, or bison in any of the Territories 

 of the United States, at anytime, except for food, and then 

 only when necessary for human subsistence. The quantity 

 required for domestic market food supply may, however, he 

 killed, and nothing in the bill is to prevent that. The bill 

 also forbids the ti asportation out of the Territories of any 

 of the animals named, either dead or alive, or the skins or 

 pelts of any. It makes it unlawful to deal iu the animals or 

 in their skins. Infractions of the law to be punished after " 

 conviction by fine or fine and imprisonment. 



Even if sucn law is passed, however, it is not likely that it 

 will put an effectual stop to the slaughter which is now 

 threatening to render extinct our large game. But if it is 

 honestly enforced it will lessen the rate of destruction. The 

 bill is now with the Committee on Territories, w"ho cannot 

 allow it to remain unreported without earning the censure of 

 every true sportsman. 



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