Sept. 5, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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CARTRIDGE ANALYSIS. 



Three Cartridges Taken at Random. 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Loading. Powder. s?l0 t\»- „ . 



Card over shot; two 1 1 . . . 135 grs. 588 grs. 27 o pellets. 



. B. E. wads and card-^ 3. . .130 grs. 567 grs. 271 pellets, 



over powder. (3... 132 grs. 589 grs. 274 pellets. 



Average 132grs. 581 grs. 273 pellets. 

 TEST AT 40 YARDS. 

 Five Sh ots per Ba rrel from rest at fixed 30-inch Circle. 



RIGHT BARBEL. 

 Pattern. Pe 



1. 123 pellets. 



2. 107 pellets. 



3. 93 pellets. 



4. 92 pellets. 



5. 91 pellets. 



LEFT BARREL. 

 ■tration, s pellets. Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 

 27 sheets. 1. Ill pellets. 19 sheets. 

 31 sheets. 2. 89 pellets. 26 sheets. 

 23 sheets. 3. 95 pellets. 27 sheets. 

 . . sheets. 4. 101 pellets. 31 sheets. 

 33 sheets. 5. 103 pellets. 28 sheets. 



Av. 101 pellets. 28 sheets. Av. 99 pellets. 26 sheets. 



Tliree shots a,t 4-foot square; 30-inch Circle selected from 

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 126 pellets. 1 115 pellets. 



2 112 pellets. 3 104 pellets. 



3 101 pellets. 3 104 pellets. 



Average 113 pellets. 



Average 108 pellets. 



TEST AT 60 YARDS. 



Five Shots per Barrel from rest at fixed 30-inch Circle. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



Pattern. Penetration, a pellets. Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 



1. 32 pellets. 22 sheets. 1. 51 pellets. 19 sheets. 



2. 32 pellets. . . sheets. 2. 66 pellets. 18 sheets. 



3. 62 pellets. 9 sheets. 3. 23 pellets. 17 sheets. 



4. 42 pellets. 22 sheets. 4. 58 pellets. ..sheets. 



5. 47 pellets. 15 sheets. 5. 52 pellets. 15 sheets. 



Av. 43 pellets. 16 sheets. Av. 50 pellets. 17 sheets. 



Three shots at 4-foot square; 30-inch Circle selected from 

 hest pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 66 pellets. 1 59 pellets. 



2 50 pellets. 2 68 pellets. 



3 51 pellets. 3 61 pellets. 



Average 55 pellets. 



Average 63 pellets. 



CLAREMONT, N. J., Aug. 7, 1889. 

 TEST MADE AT FOREST AND STREAM GUN-TESTING SCREEN. 



Gtm— Scott hammer. Cost, $— . No. of gun, 15,981. Weight, 

 lO^lbs. Length of barrels, 33in. Gauge, 10. Right bar- 

 rel." full choke. Left barrel, full choke. 



Weather— Clear, Direction of wind, 5 o'clock. Force of 

 wind, 4 miles per hour. Thermometer, dry, 75°. Do., 

 wet, 67 0 . Humidity, 66 0 . Barometer, 30.1in. 



Charge, as given by holder of gun: 



BOTH BARRELS. 



Shell— U. S. C. Co.'s Climax. 

 Powder, Brand— Schultze. 

 Powder, Quantity — 4 drs. 

 I Make— Tatham. 

 Shot-} Quantity— 1}£ ost. 

 ( Stee— 6 Chilled. 



CARTRIDGE ANALYSIS. 

 Three (Yrrtrirfges Taken at Random, 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Loading. Powder. Shot 



Card over shot; one B. 1 1. . . 61 grs. 596 grs. 280 pellets. 



E., two P. E. wads- 2... 60 grs. 592 grs. 273 pellets, 



and card over pdr. (3... 59 grs. 578 grs. 270 pellets. 



Average 60 grs. 588 grs. 274 pellets. 

 TEST AT 40 YARDS. 

 Five Shots per Barrel from rest at fixed 30-inch Circle. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, S pellets. 



69 pellets. 26 sheets. 1. 



25 sheets. 2. 



25 sheets. 3. 

 36 sheets. 4. 



26 sheets. 



2. -98 pellets. 



3. 24 pellets. 



4. 124 pellets. 



5. 91 pellets. 



LEFT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 

 97 pellets. 25 sheets. 



45 uellets. 

 83 pellets. 

 .. 20 pellets. 

 5. 100 pellets. 



. . sheets. 

 .. sheets. 

 . . sheets. 

 30 sheets. 



Av. 81 pellets. 28 sheets. Av. 69 pellets. 27 sheets. 



Three Shots at 4-foot square; 30-inch Circle selected from 

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 90 pellets. 1 102 pellets. 



2 110 pellets. 2 84 pellets. 



3 106 pellets. 3 103 pellets. 



Average 102 pellets. 



Average 93 pellets. 



TEST AT 60 YARDS. 

 Five Shots ver Barrel from rest at fixed 30-inch Circle. 



LEFT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, :i pellets. 

 56 pellets. 16 sheets. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 



18 pellets. 

 50 pellets. 

 41 pellets. 

 8 pellets. 

 43 pellets. 



sheets. 

 17 sheets. 

 .. sheets. 

 . . sheets. 

 21 sheets. 



50 pellets. 

 50 pellets. 

 36 pellets. 

 27 pellets. 



18 sheets. 

 17 sheets. 

 17 sheets. 

 20 sheets. 



Av. 38 pellets. 19 sheets. Av. 44 pellets. 18 sheets. 



Three Shots at 4-foot square; 30-ineh Circle selected from 

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 50 pellets. 1 60 pellets. 



3 50 pellets. 2 52 pellets. 



3 55 pellets. 3 50 pellets. 



Average 53 pellets. 



Average 54 pellets. 



St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 31, — The officers of the Missouri 

 Fish and Game Protective Association have determined 

 to put a stop to the illegal sale of prairie chickens in this 

 city, and with this object in view they recently appointed 

 an agent to investigate and report to" them the results of 

 his investigation. For a week or more the agent labored 

 hard in the good cause and his vigilance was well re- 

 warded, for he succeeded in having warrants issued 

 against a number of prominent restaurant and hotel 

 keepers who were serving their guests with a delicious 

 article of "owl," and one game dealer suffered a similar 

 fate. They were all arrested and gave bonds for appear- 

 ance in court. Sportsmen here are highly elated over 

 the splendid showing made by special officer Voris, and 

 they also hope that the violaters will be given the butt 

 end of the law for selling chickens at this time when the 

 open season for them in this State is 45 days off yet. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 27.— We have been blessed with 

 beautiful, World's Fair weather here for the past 

 season, and one could hardly believe that it was summer 

 at all. Some of our shooter's who have gone afield for an 

 early shoot report fair weather all through upper Illinois 

 and Indiana. 



Numbers of shooters have already gone into the latter 

 State for the ostensible purpose of fishing or snipe shoot- 

 ing, but it is highly probable that next Sunday will see 

 most of them out after chickens, if they do not go before 

 that time. There will be very fair prairie chicken shoot- 

 ing in upper Indiana this fall, unless all the promise of 

 the earlier season be falsified. Some little illegal shoot- 

 ing is reported in Illinois, but it is being kept quiet. 

 Illinois, Indiana and lower Wisconsin are going to afford 

 Chicago shooters really very good prairie chicken shoot- 

 ing this fall, without the necessity of going very far 

 from home. ' But it will not last long. The guns will be 

 out in thousands after this big, beautiful and easy game 

 bird, and the supply will rapidly fade away. There is 

 no bird so defenseless as the pinnated grouse, and it is 

 the prey of every one, from Zulu up. 



Speaking of snipe reminds one that jack snipe made 

 their appearance on our marshes three weeks ago, and 

 came in considerable numbers ten days or more ago. A 

 few of those who were "on to" this have quickly slipped 

 out and made some good bags already. Mr. John Grey, 

 of the Cumberland Club, whom I have once mentioned 

 as a very successful duck shot, told me to-day that he 

 had just got in from the club, and had bagged 44 jack 

 snipe in less than half an hour (he said) on the little flat 

 directly in front of the club house. "I don't think I was 

 gone over 20 minutes," said be, "the place was alive 

 with them. The boys don't know it yet." 



Lately I read a lot of learned stuff about snipe in an- 

 other journal, and supposed I was learning something 

 until I fell to talking with Ed Irwin, of Cony, Pa., who 

 spends his summer on Chautauqua Lake, and who comes 

 out to Koutts, Ind., on the Kankakee River, to shoot 

 snipe for the naai'ket, as he has done for the past twenty 

 years. He says that region holds out better than any 

 snipe ground he knows. Mr. Irwin said, "That fellow 

 you are talking about says snipe come in in three sepa- 

 rate flights. Well, I have watched the jack snipe pretty 

 close for over twenty years, and I don't think they do 

 anything of the kind." You can't lay down any such rule. 

 Snipe usually come in on the full moon. Your early Illi- 

 nois snipe came in on the full moon, and you will notice 

 that they will thin out now andnotbein to any great ex- 

 tent till the full moon of next month. A good many people 

 write about game who don't know very much about it. 

 I am convinced that if this gentleman had observed jack 

 snipe so long as some of us, he would have changed his 

 mind about the three-flight business." 



Golden plover crossed Ohio three weeks ago, and they 

 are on our prairies here now to some extent. I have not 

 yet seen any one who has been out after them, but I will 

 shortly look up Italian Joe. He knows where all the 

 plover axe. 



Mr. W. T. Best, of the Chicago Tin Pigeon Co. , starts 

 this week for Denver, Col. , to attend the big shoot of the 

 Queen City club, which will probably result in the fur- 

 ther strengthening of the 1 ' Rocky Mountain Trap- 

 Shooters," and should be quite a considerable affair, Mr. 

 Best has space offered him in this shoot for his bird, 

 which is one of the new and good inventions which 

 Chicago is all the time turning out for the sporting world. 

 I have tried not to miss mentioning any noteworthy pro- 

 duct of that kind during the past year, and believe that 

 the columns of this paper will show that this city has 

 done more in the way of originality and enterprise in 

 that respect than any other in the Union during the 

 period named. 



The Standard Cartridge Co. of Chicago is now well 

 settled in its beautiful new offices at the northeast corner 

 of Randolph street and "Wabash avenue, and things have 

 a rather explosive look in them, the large floor having the 

 offices of the Standard Cartridge, the Dupont Powder, 

 the Oriental Mills, the Atlantic Dynamite Co., and the 

 Repauno Chemical Co. Mr, C. E. Willard, the superin- 

 tendent of the Standard Cartridge, has his desk right up in 

 the front, as if he wasn't at all afraid of being seen over at 

 his new place of business. Charlie Willard is so well known 

 that it isn't news to talk about him. He will have to 

 chasser around between here and St. Louis, until Chicago 

 annexes St. Louis, which will be before long. Mr. Rice's 

 desk, and the Dupont office, are railed off handsomely 

 just back of this, and the Oriental Mills come nexti Mr. 

 Rice's private office, which is furnished with singular 

 good taste for its purposes, lies at the end of the suite, 

 and is a very good climax to the whole. Mr. Rice has a 

 number of heads of big game in his office. He has also 

 a large rug, which I took to be native Mexican, but which 

 he says is West Indian weaving. It is very homely — 

 enough so to be attractive, he says. All these offices 

 are finished in old oak, and all the desks are of that 

 wood. The total effect is one I do not see equalled in 

 similar offices in this or other cities, and shows what dig- 

 nity sporting interests may assume upon occasion in this 

 city. Mr. Rice and Mr. Willard say that their machinery 

 will soon be in. Both these gentlemen are known in this 

 country, and it would afford absent friends pleasure to 

 behold them in their new quarters, to which they seem 

 now perfectly adjusted. 



The actual business of the field is now beginning to 

 assert itself. Our shooters are growing uneasy, and are 

 oiling up their guns. There is a vague suspicion in the 

 air that something is going to happen before long. The 

 anglers hold on, but the shooters will before long out- 

 number them. The fall, the natural time for field sports, 

 draws on apace. The nights are growing cooler. 



Aug. 28. — Some weeks ago a lone highwayman held up 

 and went through a Milwaukee & Northern train at Ellis 

 Junction, securing booty and escaping unharmed. A 

 little while ago the same man robbed a Wisconsin Central 

 train in the same manner, escaping into the great North- 

 ern wilderness with equal ease. Yesterday he held up a 

 stage coach which was carrying four passengers from 

 the great angling water, Lake Gogebic, to the station on 

 the Lake Shore & Western road. One of the passengers 

 resisted and fixed at the robber, who returned the fire, 

 and has probably killed two of the occupants of the stage, 

 himself escaping once more into the woods, once more to 

 be pursued by a sheriff, a posse and a reward. These 

 things seem interesting to me, as the above are three of 



our best fishing lines of railway, and the outrages were 

 committed right in the angling territory of which I have 

 lately written. From what I saw of the almost impass- 

 ably dense and impervious nature of some of that country 

 up there, I should say it was simple folly to undertake 

 to find a man who had five minutes start in those woods* 

 unless the pursuit bad trailers, either dogs or men. 



Almost simultaneous with this account comes news of 

 a train robbery on the D. & R. G. in Colorado, a country 

 with whose dry and rocky character I happen also to be 

 familiar. Yet" in ibis case the Indian trailers followed 

 the robbers for miles and miles, and captured them, even 

 in spite of their removing their boots and swathing 

 their feet in thick rags. I have seen an Apache scout 

 follow the trail of a deserter over the dry foothills 

 which lie about Fort Stanton, as fast as the squad cared 

 to follow him, and he rarely hesitated. This makes me 

 t h in k that an Indian such as these could run down their 

 bandit murderer for them; and that no one else can. 



Our shooters are beginning to ask the old question, 

 "Are we going to have any ducks this fall?" So far, the 

 water in the marshes seems at very good stage, and 

 everything looks prosperous. English Lake men say 

 their marsh is so high that they feel quite safe. Cumber- 

 land marsh also reports a good run of water and a good 

 prospect. The high water will make snipe shooting good, 

 almost without doubt. 



Our shooters here are to a great extent wildfowl or 

 trap-shooters. Upland shooting has had a swift decadence 

 in this region, although there are a few who still know 

 and seek its delights. We hav till a slight hold upon 

 this most excellent style of sp< , and it is to be hoped 

 that our upland birds may giadually be preserved and 

 restored to us, as our pinnated grouse have been by the 

 late close law. 



Shooters should bear in mind once more our open date 

 on prairie chickens. It has been lately accurately stated 

 in these columns, and is Sept. 15, not Sept. 1. The daily 

 papers of this city, usually wrong on all sporting matters, 

 have recently wrongly announced this date as Sept. 1. 

 The latter is the date our noble-minded Senate tried to 

 spring on us, although the clerk frustrated the scheme 

 with his lucky stumbling pen. We have got a dandy 

 legislature out here. There are only a few things they 

 don't know, and they are after those few. Every one of 

 them is a Solon J. Daniei, and his intellect would cast a 

 gloom. 



Aug. 28. — Later.— It seems that the news about the 

 Gogebic stage robber is of more direct interest to Forest 

 and Stream than appeared at first. Mr. A. G. Fleisch- 

 beiw, of Belleville, III., was one of the men shot by the 

 highwayman, and he died of his injuries at 6 o'clock this 

 morning. Mr. Fleischbein was a prominent sportsman 

 in his community, and well known in business and politi- 

 cal circles. He was also well known as a contributor to 

 the columns of Forest and Stream, which paper must 

 certainly deplore his untimely taking off while on his 

 pleasure trip into the woods. It is melancholy to add 

 that when Mr. Fleischbein fell from the stage in conse- 

 quence of his injuries, he was deserted by his three com- 

 panions, and left lying alone in the road so long that the 

 loss of blood caused his subsequent death. He com- 

 plained of this. He said also that the robber threatened 

 to kill him as he lay crippled in the road. 



Aug. % 9.— We have had a sensation. We have had two 

 arrests on South Water street for illegal handling of 

 game. We have met the enemy, and we are theirs. 



Some time ago a Mr. Bortree and others made com- 

 plaint to Mr. Fred C. Donald, president of the Illinois 

 State Sportsmen's Association, that there was a large 

 amount of illegal game coming in. Mr. Donald under- 

 took to institute action. He went to some of the leading 

 members of the association , and passed his hat to raise a 

 little collection. He got his hat back. Then he grew a 

 trifle warm, went down in his own pocket, and expended 

 $45 of his own money, for which he will never receive a 

 "thank you," and hired a man to get evidence for a pro- 

 secution. We have a game warden out here, but like 

 most game wardens, his whereabouts is mostly shrouded 

 in mystery. Not a member of our State association knew 

 the name or address of our trusted officer; although it 

 transpired later that his name is H, P. Brunsewitz, and 

 his address No. 12 Clybourne avenue. This information 

 was gained from the arrested game dealers. They said 

 that Mr. Brunsewitz came down to them, on South Water 

 street, to ask them what his duties were ! It is presnmed 

 they told him his duty was to lapse into peaceful silence. 

 Anyhow, he lapsed. 



The special agent, Mr. Malcolm McNeil, reported that 

 he found il egal game in a number of cases. "Well, go 

 ahead and make a seizure," said Mr. Donald, "I can't tell 

 you whom to arrest and whom not. Go ahead." 



Mr. McNeil went ahead, armed with his little search 

 warrant in the name of the people of the glorious State 

 of Illinois. And he lit down upon just about' the two 

 men out of all South Water street whom every sports- 

 man of Chicago would have liked to see let alone. He 

 arrested Mr. Henry A. Sloan, one of the most prominent 

 members of the Mak-saw-ba club, a sportsman beloved 

 by his fellows, and a man who has spent more money in 

 game protection than almost any in the State Associa- 

 tion. He found a box of chickens, ducks and quail sit- 

 ting in front of Mi-. Sloan's place, and made the seizure. 

 The other case was against Mr. G. W. Randall, also well- 

 known in the Mak-saw-ba club and in shooting circles 

 here. Ducks and chickens were in Mr. Randall's box, 

 which Mr. McNeil received as it was unloaded from the 

 freight wagon. 



Mr. Donald at once informed Mr. Wolfred N. Low, last 

 year president of the State Association, who is consti- 

 tuted by State's Attorney Longenecker, assistant prose- 

 cutor in Cook county for cases of this nature, and 

 although Mr. Low hardly liked the look of things, the 

 writs were out and returnable, and nothing was left but 

 to go ahead on the path Mr. McNeil had cut out. A con- 

 tinuance was had by defense on last Saturday, and on 

 Tuesday at 9 A. M. the State vs. H. A. Sloan was tried. 



Mr. Low opened the prosecution with a direct apology 

 for his friend Mr. Sloan, of whom be spoke in terms of 

 the highest respect. "Your Honor," said he, "Mr. Sloan 

 will, I trust, be found to be brought before you under 

 some misapprehension. Even should evidence be found 

 against him, I am satisfied that he has received this 

 game, for the killing of which he is not responsible, only 

 at the last resort and as a protection'to his business on a 

 street where the general morals are such that action of 

 this kind is almost necessary; for a more active and con- 



