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GAME IN SEASON FOR MARCH. 
Snipe, Brant, Ducks and Wild Fowl generally. 
FOR FLORIDA. 
Red Deer, Carious Virginianus ) Wild Turkey, Meleagris gcillopavo.) 
Woodcock, Pliilohda minor.) Quail, Ortyx Virginianus.) 
Snipe, Plover, Curlew, etc., in great 
variety. 
L Under the head of ‘ 'Came, and Fish m /Season 1 ' we can only specify m 
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 publish 
those entire sections that relate to the hinds of game in question. This 
would require a great amount of our space.* Iri 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 
—The weather continues too cold for snipe and hay 
birds, and checks the migration of wild fowl. Of snipe 
shooting in the vicinity of New York we can only speak 
in general terms, for our “cutest” sportsmen are jealous 
of the information they possess; and even were we to speci¬ 
fy good localities, the chances are ten to one that the 
stranger who would seek them out would find some mar¬ 
ket gunner or veteran bird hunter in snug preemption and 
possession of the best points and thoroughfares, and whom 
courtesy and the rules of the craft hold safe from others’ 
intrusion. Still there are places on- the south side of Long 
Islond where the bays and creeks cut deeply into the 
marshes, where inlets divide the outer beach, and where 
“thoroughfares” or necks of land connect the outer beach 
with the main land, and convenient to these localities, 
which the snipe and bay birds frequent and traverse like a 
beaten track, are queer old chaps with keen blue eyes and 
bronzed cheek bones who keep stools on hand, and have 
their blinds ready for favored city gents who are willing to 
pay to the gunner the market price of every snipe they 
shoot! Oh yes! it is all very well to ask, “where shall we 
go to shoot snipe?” but if the dozen or score of questioners 
who address us can find any fuller, more definite or more 
honest information than we give them, we shall be pleased 
to become joint possessors of it. We shall state, however, 
that Sheepshead Bay and New Rockaway, the points most 
accessible to New Yorkers, and once famous for their 
abundance, are still much resorted to by gunners, parties of 
whom have been scouring the marshes for signs the past 
few days. Take the branches of the South Side railroad, 
and ask for Abrams. If • you can find a soft spot in his 
conscience or nature he can be of great service. He bags 
for the Robinses in Fulton Market. At Oyster Bay is a 
grand natural snipe ground, and, indeed, the whole series 
of salt meadows that extend to Patchogue are hard to 
beat for snipe and bay birds. On the Jersey coast from 
Shark’s river, below Long Branch to Toms river, Squan 
Beach, Barnegat, and all the way to Atlantic City, the 
snipe ground is fine, and many a choice locality, perhaps 
the best that can be found, may be reached by driving over 
in a wagon from any given station on the line of the South¬ 
ern New Jersey railroad. Philadelphians, who are natural 
meadow rangers, seek the Jersey coast in large numbers, 
and are well acquainted with the ground. 
Perhaps it would be judicious advice to those not well 
informed to study out the lay of ihe land by a county map, 
and having selected a place that seems suitable, “go for it,” 
and when there interview the outlying settlers and get by 
fragments the information required. At all events, if one 
does nothing more than reconnoitre the first season, the 
time is not wasted, for he will most certainly become privy 
to some choice locality which he can visit when the next 
season comes around. 
The spring 'season for snipe is short at its longest, cov¬ 
ering a preriod of ten days or so. Neither are the birds as 
fat as in the fall when they linger at favorite feeding- 
grounds in their migratory flight, dallying by the way. 
Now their flight is rapid, for they are off for the north “on 
business,” and have no time to spare in wayside indulgen¬ 
ces. Those who would boast a full bag must therefore be 
on the alert, and when the first warm breezes blow from the 
southward be up and ready, and have at them, boys! 
South Oyster Bay, Tom’s River beach, and the shores 
of Barnegat are lined with wild geese resting a brief period 
on their long journey north. As they are migratory birds, 
swing out your eight and ten bores, and render an honorable 
account of yourselves. 
English snipe, that rare and much prized game bird, 
will also soon put in an appearance—certainly by the first 
of April. For an intelligent article on the same, see com¬ 
munication from our correspondent, C. B., in this day’s 
issue of Fobest and Stream. 
—On the 1st instant Mr. Nat’l Berry, shooting at Craney 
Island, from box killed eighty black and red heads and 
canvas backs—a day’s work. 
—Ducks are very plentiful on the Potomac. One day’s 
shooting last week at Pencoast, off Navy Yard, killed fifty 
odd. 
—A young man was hunting at Bluff Point, Keuka Lake, 
Yates Go., the other day, and had his dog out. Soon a fox 
was started, which came down on the west side of the 
point. When part way down on that side of the hill the fox 
turned back, and the young man crossed over the point 
again to head the fox and kill him. In a short time the 
dog was heard coming, and in a few moments the fox made 
his appearance, coming down from the south. The hunter, 
concealed behind a stump, raised his gun to fire, but it 
snapped. The fox not hearing the report of the cap came 
and jumped upon the very stump behind which the young 
man was concealed. He quickly seized the fox around the 
neck with both hands, held him fast, and carried him 
home, leaving his gun lying by the stump in the woods.— 
OnUiffio County Journal, 
—A party of northern gentlemen sojourning at Jackson¬ 
ville, Florida, last month, took a hunting trip up the Ock- 
lawaha and returned to Palatka on the 18th, with the follow¬ 
ing report of the results of their eight days trip: Alligators 
seen, 243; killed, 79; limpkins killed, 130; water turkeys, 25; 
great heron, 4; white heron, 2 ; painted gallenell, 20 ; coots, 
150; eagles, 4; great owls, 2; black bass taken, 150 pounds. 
)( —At Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia, a black bear was killed 
a few days since that weighed over 700 pounds, which is a 
weight most extraordinary. 
—We have to thank a friend in Brainerd, Crow Wing 
county, Minnesota, for some very clever photographs. 
Two of them represent the heads of deer with antlers 
locked in deadly combat, the pictures being taken from 
life. The third shows a deer’s head with antlers with a 
triple horn on one side, which is very novel. The Forest 
and Stream album, quite a large one already, promises to 
make a most interesting collection, and will serve not only 
to illustrate the beauties of Nature’s creations, but will 
help to remind us of the kindness of many of our corres¬ 
pondents. _ 
Blooming Grove Park. —The following board of direc¬ 
tors has been elected for the year: E. R. Wilbur, New 
York; Edgar Pinchot, Milford, Penn.; Fayette S. Giles, 
New York; Saunders D. Bruce, New York; Dudley Field, 
New York; Charles Halloek, New York; John Y. Cullyer, 
Brooklyn; Thomas N. Rooker, Brooklyn; Genio C Scott, 
Brooklyn; John K. Hackett, New York; John B. Sartori, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
Out of Place. —Sometime ago in London streets a 
woodcock deliberately flew into a cabman’s hands, which 
fact was duly recorded in public prints. We can, however, 
beat that. One day last week a wild turkey was seen 
perched on a chimney, on Gouverneur street in the wilder¬ 
ness of this City of New York. Then Madison and Mon¬ 
roe streets showed their sportsman-like proclivities, and 
from garret and attic an active fusilade was carried on. 
Again and again the game broke cover, but at last Madison 
street got the better of the noble bird, and the turkey fell. 
One question is where did the turkey come from? and the 
other is, is not March a close season for wild turkeys? Let 
our most worthy Association for the protection of game 
look to it. We shall be killing catamounts and lucifees 
on Ffth Avenue, and potting ducks and geese in the new 
fountain at the city Park. 
—The White Cloud Sportsman’s Club of White Cloud, 
Kansas, have elected the following officers for the ensuing 
year: President, D. C. Taylor; Treasurer, I. C. Orton; 
Secretary, I. M. Mackoy. We would call the attention of 
sportsmen’s clubs to] article 7 of constitution of this enter¬ 
prising Association. Article 7 “That the position for trap 
shooting shall be with the muzzle of gun below the knee 
and hammers down hammers, to be raised after the bird or 
birds come in sight.” 
—The following amendment to the game law of New 
York has been read twice and referred:— 
Sec. 1 . No person shall kill or chase any moose or wild 
deer in any part of this State save only during the months 
or September, October and November in any year. No 
person shall sell, expose for sale, transport, or have in his 
or her possession in this State after the same has been kill¬ 
ed, any moose, wild deer or fresh venison, save only during 
the months of September, October, November, December 
and January. No person shall, at any time, in this State, 
kill any fawn during the time when it is in its spotted coat, 
or have in his or her possession the carcass, fiesli or skin of 
such fawn after the same shall have been killed. No per¬ 
son shall, in any part of this State, set any trap, spring 
gun or other device at any artificial salt lick or other place, 
for the purpose of trapping and killing any moose or deer. 
It shall not be lawful to pursue deer with hounds in the 
county of Steuben. Any person offending against any of 
the preceding provisions of this section shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition shall be liable to 
a penalty of fifty dollars for each moose or wild deer or 
fawn, so killed or pursued or trapped, aud for every spring 
gun so set, or moose, or wild deer or fawn skin or fresh 
venison had in his or her possession, and may be proceeded 
against therefor in any county of the State in which the 
offender or prosecutor may reside. It shall be lawful for 
any person to kill any dog chasing moose or deer out of 
season, and the owner of such dog or dogs, and those put¬ 
ting them on the scent, shall be liable to a penalty of ten 
dollars for such moose or deer so chased or killed by such 
dogs. 
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
—The Philadelpia Amateur Shooting Club shot their first 
match at pigeons recently, This is a new club, it being the 
first time some of the members ever shot from a trap. The 
match was composed of eight men on a side, ten birds each; 
Rhode Island rules. The following is the score:— 
Win. Cummings.. 111111101 0-8 
W.E.Van Orsdel. .0 1 11 o 11 0 1 0-6 
F. Weamayer.1110111011-8 
Thos. Hammit.... 1 0 0 1 0 1 0111-6 
Robt. Campbell ...0011111011-7 
James Givens.1110011101-6 
W. Mallach. 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0-5 
Geo. Ernwechter..101101001 0-5 
M. Brierly_ 
Wm. Bogarth... 
Wm. J. Givens. 
D. Aikens_ 
Sami Young. 
Wm. Brown.. 
Jas. Quigley .. 
Wm. Emerick 
.1111111110-9 
.1100101010-5 
.0101001110-5 
.0 100100001-3 
.1 0000 1 1 000-3 
.1111111110-9 
.. 1111101110-8 
. 0010101111-6 
Total killed 
51 
Total killed 
48 
A. C., President P. A. S. C. 
—The Schuetzen Park Association, is a well to-do asso¬ 
ciation. Assets of the association amount to $239,593, and 
expenditures during the year are almost $110,000. With¬ 
out their losing their national German character, (which 
in many associations is vital), why cannot our German 
riflemen be made to affiliate with Creedmoor and the 
American Rifle movement? The time of the Swiss or Ger¬ 
man rifle has passed away, with the cross bow and match 
gun. - 
THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH—ADDRESS TO AMERICAN 
RIFLEMEN. 
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Amateur 
Rifle Club was held at 194 Broadway, on Wednesday, to 
consider the programme of the proposed match between 
American riflemen and the “Irish Eight.” The expenses 
of the match, including the forfeit of £100, were estimated 
to be not less than $1,000, ^ut it was announced that the 
club had received such assurances of financial support in 
the undertaking as to remove all question upon this point. 
The committee then decided to accept the programme as 
forwarded, with the single exception that the number of 
competitors upon each side should not be less than six 
and directed the President of the club to inform Major 
A. B. Leech, the Captain of the Irish Eight, of this deter¬ 
mination. 
, It being desired that this match should be participated 
in by riflemen throughout the country, the following ad¬ 
dress was adopted by the committee and directed to be 
issued: 
New York, March 11, 1874. 
To the Riflemen of America :— 
A challenge having been extended to you by the Irish 
Eight (who won the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon in 1873), 
the Amateur Rifle Club of this city have accepted it upon 
your behalf. 
The programme submitted by the Irish team has been 
agreed upon with the single exception of the minimum 
number of competitors, which this Club desire to fix at six 
in place of four, as originally proposed by the challengers! 
As thus amended it is as follows: 
Programme of the International Rifle Match between the 
riflemen of the Uipted States of America and the riflemen 
of Ireland, represented by a team to be chosen from the 
members of the Irish Rifle Association, to take place at 
Creedmoor, Long Island, not sooner than the 15th of Sep¬ 
tember or later than the 15th of October, 1874, on the fol¬ 
lowing terms, viz: 
Team—Each team to consist of not more than eight or 
less than six men, at the option of the Irish, whose decision 
will be announced on their arrival at New York. The 
American team to be composed exclusively of riflemen 
born in the United States. The Irish team to consist of 
men qualified to shoot in the Irish eight at Wimbledon. 
Rifles—Any, not exceeding ten pounds weight; minimum 
pull of trigger three pounds. The Americans to shoot 
with rifles of bona fide American manufacture. The Irish 
to-shoot with rifles manufactured by Messrs. John Rigby 
& Co., of Dublin. 
Sights, Ammunitions, Targets and Marking—To be ac¬ 
cording to printed regulations in force at Wimbledon 1873. 
Ranges—Eight hundred yards, nine hundred yards, and 
one thousand yards. 
Number of shots—Fifteen at each range by each com¬ 
petitor. 
Previous Practice—The Irish team to be allowed the 
use of the range for practice for at least two days before 
the match. 
Position—Anjr; no artificial rests to be used either for the 
rifle or person of the shooter. 
Mr. Leech, on the part of the Irish team, guarantees to 
deposit, on his arival at New York, with the National Rifle 
Association of America, the sum of one hundred pounds 
sterling, a like sum to be deposited by the American team, 
and this sum of £200 to be handed over to the Captain 
for division among the members of the winning team. 
Targets, ranges, and all accessories for carrying out the 
match to devolve on the Americans. The Americans to 
choose a referee to act for them. Mr. Leech will act in the 
capacity of referee for the Irish team, and the two referees 
shall mutually select an umpire, to whom, in case of dif¬ 
ference of opinion, they shall refer, and whose decision 
shall be final. 
The terms of the match to be signed by Geo. W. Wingate, 
on behalf of the Amateur Rifle Club, and by Arthur Blen- 
nerhasset Leech on behalf of the Irish team. 
Duplicate copies of this programme to be exchanged, and 
all necessary arrangements to be completed on or before 
the 1st day of June, 1874. 
Should either team fail to make appearance on the day 
and hour agreed upon for the match, the team then present 
may claim the championship and stakes. 
In taking this step, the American Rifle Club do not claim 
that they include among their members the best riflemen 
of America, but only assume to act as your representatives 
for the purpose of placing the matter in such a shape as to 
permit all, who prove themselves competent, to compete, 
irrespective of their residence or membership. 
The targets and scoring used in the match will be in ac¬ 
cordance with the rules of the National Rifle Association, 
viz: Targets six feet'high by twelve wide, having a black 
bull’s eye three feet square, surrounded by the “centre,” 
six feet square, the rest of the target constituting the 
“outer;” bulls’ eyes counting four points, centres, three, 
outers two. Any sights allowed but telescopic, magnify¬ 
ing, and such as conceal the target so as to prevent the 
danger signal from being seen. Any ammunition may be 
used. Any position will be allowed which can be taken 
on level ground without artificial rests. The other particu¬ 
lars sufficiently appear in the programme. 
It is requested that all native-born Americans who are 
interested in rifle shooting and who desire to form part of 
the “team” which is to represent America in this match, 
will at once commence practising for the purpose, and will, 
on or before the first day of July next, forward to the sub¬ 
scriber a score of fifteen consecutive shots made at each 
distance named in the programme, in the following^ form: 
I. A. B., hereby certify that the following is a correct 
statement of fifteen consecutive shots made by me at 800, 
900 and 1,000 yards, at-, on-, 1874, without 
any artificial rests, telescopic or magnifying sights (target 
6 x12 feet; bull’s eye 3 feet square, centre 6 feet square; 
bull’s eyes counting 4, centres 3, outers 2): 
At 800 yards. 
At 900 “ .. “ - 
At 1,000 “ . ‘ —" 
Grand total. 
Rifle used,-; weight, — lbs. (dead weight, without 
set or hair trigger). 
I further certify that I was born at 
U. S. A., on — 
State of- 
Sworn to before me, 
Signature, 
, 1874. 
Address, 
