FOREST AND STREAM 
75 
GAME IN SE ASON F OR MARCH. 
Snipe, Brant, Ducks and Wild Fowl generally. 
FOR FLORIDA. 
Red Deer, Carious Virginiatius) Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopmo.) 
Woodcock, PhUohela minor .) Quail, Ortyx Virginianus.) 
Snipe, Plover, Curlew, etc., in great 
variety. 
| Under the head of “ Game, and Fisn m Season" we can only specify in 
general terms the several varieties, because the laws of States vary so much 
'that were we to attempt to particularize we could do no less than jrublish 
those entire sections that relate to the kinds of game in question. This 
would require a great amount of our space. In designating game we are 
guided by the laws of nature , upon which all legislation is founded , and 
our readers would do well to provide themselves'with the laws of their re¬ 
spective States for constant reference. Otherwise , our attempts to assist them 
will only create confusion. 1 ^ 
Conltn’s Tournament. —Some of the best, if not the 
very best, shooting with, the rifle at short range that has 
Qver been recorded was accomplished in this match. The 
Targets were suspended bullets, three quarters of an inch in 
diameter, hung at a distance of seventy-five feet. The 
first three prizes were for the greatest number, of consecu¬ 
tive bullets; the fourth and fifth prizes were^for the great¬ 
est number of bullets hit out of twenty shots. The first 
was carried off by Mr. Collins, of New Jersey, the second 
lay between Wilson MacDonald and J. P. M. Richards, tlie 
champion shot of the gallant. Seventh Regiment. The 
meeting of these two accurate shooters, to shoot off the 
tie, was set for Wednesday evening, when Mr. Richards 
made Six bullets and Mr. MacDonald five, giving the for¬ 
mer the second and tlie latter the third prize for consecu¬ 
tive bullets. The prize for the best iu twenty shots fell to 
C. E. DeForrest, of Pittsburgh, and the second to Leon 
- Backer, of the Twenty-second New York Regiment. Al¬ 
though their scores were not the highest, they took the 
prizes for ther reason that those who carred off tlie three first 
were only entitled to one prize. The following are the 
scores made by those who contended during the tourna¬ 
ment:— 
RECORD OF THE TOURNAMENT BEGAN .TAN. 12TH AND ENDING FEB. 21ST 
AT CONLIN’S GALLERY, 930 BROADWAY. 
Each contestant entitled to but one prize. 
| For Oonsectwe Bullets Greatest No. Greatest No. 
— in 20 shots, in 15shots. 
iName. 
ioL CLt C 
.vCL p 
< | UU y /jKT. 
1 4th prize. | 
5th prize. 
tyfr. Collins, N. J. 
9 
* 
£5 
14 
j. T. M. Richards ... 
7 ' 
if 
13 | 
11 
Wilson McDonald.... 
I 7 
14 | 
| 12 
U. E. DeForrest, Pa.. 
l B 
14 
! 11 
Leon Backer, N.Y- 
r e 
13 
11 
Wm. Hayes, N. J — 
1 6 
13 
| 9 
B. [). Herrick, N. Y.. 
6 
f, I 
7 
p. Gilsey. 
6 
11 
' 9 
L. Bird.. 
6 
11 
9 
Nicholas Saitus. 
6 
10 
8 
Wm. Silverhorn- 
6 ! 
10 
8 
Waller Jones. 
6 
10 
8 
W. S. Gales. r . 
6* 1 
11 
7 
Wm. H. Richards- 
5 
9 
6 
T. VV. Hartfield. 
5 
8 
8 
A. T. Caldwell. 
j 
5 
9 
7 
H. Bieezard. 
5 
8 
6 
John Tragesser. 
5 . 
9 
7 
J. Anrons. . . 
5 
8 
7 
E; T. Marsh... 
5 
8 
5 
Herman Kenenbly... 
5 
8 
4 
‘D. Fulkerson_.... 
5 
9 
6 
The following gentlemen did not complete their scores, and are there¬ 
fore not recorded as prize winners: 
H. Fulton, Robert Miller, D. V. H.Berthold, Frank Lord, A. Marsh, 
H. P. Carrington, James Ross, S. J. Kellogg, L. C. Bruce, Alex. Pyle, E 
P Sanford, Thos. Warner, A. V. Canfield, Jr., R. Hopf, E. Ralph. D. 
R. Otfley. J. W. Sagemau, A. B. Davis, Wm. S. Gregory, Charles Peck, 
E. F. Jenkins, L. T. Montgomery, P. H. Morris, Lawrence Andrews, A. 
Y. Zaclias, James H. Smith, JohnH. Abeel, Jr., andJas. H. Winslow. 
It will he observed that those who made good shooting 
in this short range match invariably shot well at Qreed- 
moor, showing that those who can handle the rifle weil in 
one place can shoot accurately anywhere. W"e noticed 
throughout this tournament that the best shots held their 
guns in the same position, not only firmly against the 
shoulder, hut with grace, ease, and elegance. 
Mr. Collin’s position is one of great firmness, showing 
remarkable steadiness of nerve. 
Mr. Richards is exceedingly graceful. He stands and 
shoots with a semi-military air. 
Mr. MacDonald handles his rifle like an old accomplished 
marksman-body erect, head well back, and right arm ele¬ 
vated. Deliberate aim shooting is not exactly liis forte, 
hut in all kinds of fancy shooting, at the word, pipe shoot¬ 
ing, etc., he lias no superior. 
Mr. DeForrest is a very quick shot; he handles his wea 
pon with great ease, and fires rapidly. 
Mr. Backer, the winner of the State prize at Creedmoor 
last year, is rather of the military school of shooters; he 
has plenty of nerve and good judgment, and with practice 
and care will make one of our crack shots. 
The shooting in this match is beyond all question the 
best on record. It may he equalled, but we very much 
doubt if it can be beaten. 
There were a large number of gentlemen in the match, 
and many agreeable reunions occurred among those who 
are devoted to the rifle. 
Great praise is due to Mr. Conlin for the fair and impar¬ 
tial manner iu which lie conducted this tournament, and he 
has already received the thanks of the gentlemen competi¬ 
tors for his -efforts, 
Pinnated Grouse on Long Island. —Having made 
inquiries of Mr. W. E. Newton, of Sraithtown, in regard 
to the success he had met with in introducing prairie 
chickens on Long Island, he informed us that about two 
years ago he turned out about thirty brace of good, live¬ 
ly birds, coming from Iowa, and that they are breeding 
ond doing quite well. Several packs of young b'irds were 
seen last summer, and their peculiar track was very often 
noticed on the snow this winter. As far as possible, they 
have been most carefully preserved, and will not he dis¬ 
turbed until 1877. . This is quite an interesting fact. There 
is no doubt hut that fifty years ago prnirie chickens were 
found on Long Island. Should the birds be found even 
in moderate quantity at the expiration of their time of rest, 
Mr. Newton’s effort to bring back the pinnated grouse to 
our neighborhood will .no doubt be repeated in other sec¬ 
tions of the country. 
—A grand fox hunt, after the fashion of the olden time,, 
took place at Rutland, Vermont, last Friday. On Thurs¬ 
day a large party assembled at the residence of the 
Messrs. Pierce, where they were handsomely entertained by 
a ball and banquet. The next morning over two hundred 
persons assembled to witness the trial of hounds. Worces¬ 
ter was well represented, and it seemed as though every 
town throughout the county had furnished delegates. A 
live fox, which had been obtained by Mr. Pierce, was led 
a circuitous route of about two miles over the hills and 
through the woods and vales. At a given signal the hounds 
were let loose upon the track. Thirteen dogs started to¬ 
gether, and right merrily did the air ring with their music. 
Most of them continued to the bnd of the trail, where the 
judges awarded the premiums to the first three arrivals. 
—T. S. D. writes to us from Montgomery, Alabama, 
March 2d, deploringly:—“We have no game laws here, and 
all are yet shooting bob whites, woodcocks, etc. The past 
week a gentleman, while gunning, killed a woodcock. I 
found she liad been setting upon a nest of eggs, and upon 
examining them found they were nearly, ready to hatch. 
The remorse caused him to take the balance of tlie eggs 
and put them under a setting hen at a i^egro's but close at 
hand. Snipe shooting is at its height now, hut they are 
not so plenty as formerly.” 
—Tlie Halifax (Nova Scotia) Chronicle contains the fol¬ 
lowing statement respecting the rapid diminution of moose 
in the Province of Nova Scotia. We are delighted to learn 
that a practical effort is to he made to prevent their exter¬ 
mination, and we feel that total prohibition for a stated 
period, with stringent penalties, and duly authorized war¬ 
dens or foresters to make arrests, is the only mode to ac¬ 
complish the desired result:— 
“In former years the forests of Nova Scotia abounded in 
moose. Now all is changed. In large tracts, of forest, 
such as those in the vicinity of TangieY, Sheet Ltarbor, and 
St. Mary’s, where a few years ago a good hunter would be 
certain to find a score of the noblest moose on a single good 
day, one may roam for days without finding a moose of 
any kind, or if perchance he does find one it proves to he 
a poor farrow cow. Tlie poor settlers and the Indians who 
hunt the moose for food find the supply dying out. Our 
own sportsmen seldom go to the-woods, and the English 
sportsmen have ceased to come to Nova Scotia. This 
change has been brought about by the wholesale slaughter 
of the moose, and especially of full grown bulls, which 
stand when attacked and are easily shot down. The 
slaughter has uo doubt been carried on by some who call 
themselves sportsmen, but the chief offenders are hunters 
who find that the unrestricted killing of moose»is a source 
of profit. Once there was a society for the protection of 
fish and game, which made some effort to have the laws en¬ 
forced, but it died, and there has since been nobody to 
prosecute offenders. There is a close season, during which 
the killing of moose is prohibited, yet moose are killed in 
that season, and tlie hides are sold and exported almost 
without any attempt at concealment. There is a law lim¬ 
iting the number of moose that may be killed by one hun¬ 
ter in a season, and by a party of hunters at one hunt, yet 
the animals, when found, are slaughtered without number. 
It is nobody’s business to take proceedings to have the law 
enforced, and nobody does it. If the slaughter of moose 
is Jo continue as it has for several years, the animals, al¬ 
ready very scarce, must become extinct. Some of our 
sportsmen, who take a warm interest in the matter, have 
determined to make an effort to save the moose from de¬ 
struction. The plan they have adopted, after careful con¬ 
sideration, is to prohibit the killing of moose altogether 
for a period of three years, and to have commissioners ap¬ 
pointed whose duty it will be to prosecute all offenders 
against the game laws. Petitions asking the Legislature to 
pass the law desired are now in course of signature.” 
—The Woodside Shooting Club of Long Island elected 
the following officers for the j r ear 1874:—President, J. A. 
F. Kelly; Vice President, C. T. Howell, Jr.; Secretary, 
W. T. Cameron; Treasurer, J. C. Kelly. 
—The Flushing Sportsmen’s Club, of Long Island, held 
a meeting on Friday last. It was resofved to apply to the 
Legislature for the^passage of an act making it a legal in¬ 
corporated body. 
—A rifle association has lately been organized in Flush¬ 
ing, of which Joseph Adams is President, George Adams, 
Treasurer, and Christopher Robinion, Secretary. 
—The Excelsior Sporting Club, of Brooklyn, have elect¬ 
ed the following officers for the ensuing year:—President, 
Alexis Witte; Vice President, Adolph E. Naumann; Secre- 
retary, John Delclisur; Treasurer, Anson Delclisur. 
—More than one hundred deer were killed in St. Clair 
township, Westmoreland county, Penn., during the month 
of December. In Dauphin county, six miles from the 
Schuylkill boundary, fifty-four have been shot this season. 
—The Montgomery Shooting Club of Montgomery, Ala¬ 
bama, have elected the following officers for the year 
1874:—Vice President, H. B. Metcalf; Secretary, T. S. 
Doran; Regents, George Todd and J. Metcalf. This club 
has about forty active members. 
—The Merry Mount Shooting Club was organized in 
Quincy, Massachusetts, on the 28th ult. The officers elect¬ 
ed were—President, George Monk; Secretary, Samuel 
Bass; Treasurer, Samuel H. Spear; Executive Committee, 
George W. Morton and Edward Hardwick. C.E.S. 
—Thirty-five foxes have been killed at East Falmonth, 
Massachusetts, this winter. Fox hunting is a favorite 
amusement on Cape Cod, and the game is abundant. 
—A few days since a boy set, a mink trap i%the woods of 
Carver, Mass., and left it. Upon visiting it sliortlj after¬ 
ward he found his trap sprung and by the.side of it a dead 
doe, which had evidently been caught in it, and in the 
effort to get clear had fallen headlong into a boggy place 
and been drowned. The creature weighed eiglity-five 
pounds after being dressed. 
—A dromedary, perfectly white in color, has just been 
recei ved at the Jardin des Plants. This description of ani¬ 
mal is even rarer than the white elephant. 
—Wild cats are said to be plenty in the Catskill moun¬ 
tains this winter. 
—The following is the score of a pigeon match shot at 
the Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, by two well known ama¬ 
teur shooters for a purse of fifty dollars, fifteen birds each, 
twenty-one yards rise, eighty yards boundary:— 
B. Morton—1 1111100010111 1.—11. 
Mr. “Ramsey”—1 1110001101111 1.—11. 
* The tie was then shot off, and resulted as follows:— 
Morton—0 111 1.—4 
“Ramsey”—0 0 1 0 0.—1. 
Trapper for Morton, Dick Wood; trapper for Ramsey,' 
W. Morton; judge, W. Schuyler. “Homo.” 
—The Bluff City Shooting Club of Memphis, Tennessee, 
had a glorious two days sport last week on the Chickasaw 
Jersey Club course. The sports began with a deer hunt; 
there were some twenty-five gentlemen superbly mounted, 
and eleven couples of well bred hounds on the course. A 
yearling buck was uncarted, giving him twenty minutes 
start. He dashed off at a slashing pace, followed by the 
hounds in full cry, a blue dog called “Tuther” leading, 
the lithe buck making some splendid leaps, and after doub¬ 
ling, closely followed by the hounds, he was thrown and 
pinned by the dogs “Tuther” and “Pat Malloy,” but fortu- 
'nately escaped unhurt by several gentlemen coming up and 
calling off the dogs. The next sport was a fox hunt, which 
was speedily euded by the hounds killing the fox after a 
short run. The pigeon shooting handicap was next in 
order. Messrs. A. J. Hays and T. M. Horscfall acted as 
judges, and M. Miller handled the strings. The match was 
a handicap at single birds, eighty yards boundary, for three 
solid silver goblets. The entries were as follows:—27 yards, 
Dr. D. D. Saunders, AY. H. Dickason, F. J. Burrows, E. J. 
Wallace, James Tate; 25 yards, Arthur AVlieatley, C. F. 
Leland, Arthur Merriman, P. Simonson, William Bowles, 
J. A. Cockrell, R. W. Liglitburne; 23 yards, George R. 
Phelan, J. AY. Alley, Henry Ring, A. D. Gibson, David 
Bryson, William Gates, Joseph Specht; 21 yards, Andrew 
F. Grainger, H. P. Johnson, Richard Dyer; 18 yards, M. 
J. Blessing, J. P. Walker. The following is the score:— 
At 27 yards— 
D. D. Saunders—1 111111 1—8. 
F. J. Burrows—1 111111 1—8. 
W. II. Dickason—1 0 1110 0 1—5. 
E. J. Wallace—0 0 110 11 1—5. 
James Tate—0 1 Of. 
At 25 yards— * 
P. Simpson—1 0 11111 1—7. 
AVilliam Bowles, Jr.—1 110 110 t—6. 
R. W. Liglitburne—0* 0* 0* 0* 1 1 1 1 1 0 1—6.. 
R. W. Liglitburne—0 0 11111 0—5. 
* J. A. Cockrell—1 10 10 11 0—5. 
C. F. Leland—1 110 0 10 1—5. 
C. F. Leland—0 10 1110 0—4. 
Arthur Merriman—0 0* 1 1 1 1 1 0 0—5. 
Arthur Merriman—1 0 0 110 1 0—4. 
Arthur W. Wheatley—1 1110 10 1—6. 
At 23 yards— 
J. W. Alley—1 1110 11 1—7. 
William Gates—1 111111 0—7. 
David Bryson-1 0 11111 1—7. 
Joseph Specht, Jr.—1 10 1110 1—6. 
A. D. Gibson—1 110 0 10 1—5. 
A. D. Gibson—1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1—4 
Henry Ring-1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1—5. 
George R. Phelan—0 0* 0 1 1 1 0 1 0—4. 
At 21 yards— 
A, F. Grainger—1 10 10 11 1—6. 
Richard Dyer—1 0 1 1 0* 0 1 0$ l-r-5. 
H. P. Johnson—0 0 1 1 0 0* 0 Of—2. 
At 18 yards— 
M. J. Blessing—0* 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0—3. 
J. P. Walker—0 0 1 0* 0 0* Of—1. 
* No birds. 
f Withdrew* 
i Not retrieved. 
The ties for the first prize were Dr. Saunders and Mr. 
Burrows; for the second, Messrs. J. W, Alley, Wm. Yates, 
David Bryson, and P. Simpson; for the third prize, Messrs. 
AYm. Bowles, Jr., Joseph Sprecht, Jr., A. W. Wheatley, 
A. F. Grainger, and R. W. Liglitburne. 
At 32 yards— 
D. D. Saunders—0* 1 0* 0 0 1 1—3. 
F. J. Burrows—1 0 0 0 1—2. 
At 30 yards— 
A. W. Wheatley—1 1 1 0 1—4. 
P. Simpson—1 110 0—3. 
At 28 yards— 
J. W. Alley—1 10 0*0 1—3. 
D. Bryson—0 011 1—3. 
* No bird. 
CONSOLATION PURSES. 
A couple of private purses, one at single (21 yards), the 
other at doubles (18 yards), were shot. Mr. Specht won 
the former, killing three out of four, to Andy Grainger’s 
two and Ed. Wells’ one. The one at double birds was won 
by Mr. William Bowles, Jr., who killed both of his double 
rises to b. W. Wells’ 3, Charley Leland’s 2, Andy Grain¬ 
ger’s 2, and Arthur Merriman’s 1. 
R. W. S„, President 
