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bullet use the .40-32-260. The last named cartridges (.40-65 

 and .40-8i) have given me the host satisfaction s:> far. 

 The .45-70 500 Government cartridge is, to rny thinking, 

 utterly unfit for deer hunting. It i-s used a great deal 

 here and I have had a good chmce to note its effects for 

 the past three years, and have seen wounded deer get 

 away double the number shot with all the other car- 

 tridges combined. It appears to have no effect upon the 

 soft parts or! the animal, leaving a small hole and no 

 stunning effect. It has also its high trajectory andheavy 

 recoil. I am now using the following gun and do not see 

 how I can better it, viz., a M+ynard stock with the fol- 

 lowing barrels: .22-5 40 (long rifle). .'25 20, for short-range 

 practice and small .game, and a .40-70 270 for large game. 

 Do not try to ma ke one gun do the work intended for two 

 or three; it does not pay. If you use a sinali bore you 

 are sure to lose a good deal of large game; and if you use 

 a large bore for all-around work, you are bound to tear 

 up your small game, and short-range target practice loses 

 half its enjoyment. Chelan. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[Continued from Pane 26S.~\ 



THAT evening, in response to a telegram sent in the 

 morning, Mr. Win. Mnssey arrived at Ri-dng Sun 

 farm. I presume many readers of Forest and Stream 

 will remember Mr. Mussey as one of the best-known 

 shooters of Chicago and a prominent figure at the trap. 

 He arrived on our scene of action at ab ut 9 P. M , and 

 ate a supper whose dimensions I should be ashamed to 

 mention. We showed him the striug of chickens we had, 

 and he could hardly wait till morning. 



It was just a decent hour when Mr. Mussey and I and 

 old Mack started out to see what we could do. On a 

 meadow near the house I expended one wood powder 

 shell and bowled over a fat cottontail which Bi ly scared 

 in shooting 1 at a lark. A few moments liter we routed 

 out a great band of chickens from the open meadow. 

 They flew very wild, and old Mack's face bore a look of 

 unmi-takable disgust. We watched the birds down, 

 nearly a m ile ou t on the dry marsh, took their line and 

 weie lucky enough to strike them exactly. Again they 

 rose wild, and before the dog ever winded them. Bdly 

 and I each missed a bi p d at 60yds., and then I got down 

 one that jumped a little clo er in. The covey flew out 

 of sight. Mack pointed the deid bird nicely, and we went 

 on through the grass. The day was cold and windy, and 

 we did not hope to do much on the stubbles; neverthe- 

 less, Mck struck a faint trail on a high wheat stubble, 

 and while he was puzzling at it Billy jumped a lusty 

 young bird close in and stopped him with a brilliant sec- 

 ond. We then worked out to the bottoms again, and 

 killed a. j cksnipe each at a bog on a spring branch. Mr. 

 Hicks mVt u- here with a buggy, just as we were putting 

 some court piaster on the abraded heel Billy's new boots 

 had given him. As we all sat on the grass we heard fir- 

 ing to the north of us. and saw numbers of birds scatter- 

 ing out. We marked down three in the east on the pas- 

 ture, and a big; covey to the west on corn. Then we 

 crouched low, for we saw a bunch coming right over u=. 

 I t.hot one bird directly overhead at 20yds., and I don't 

 think I ever saw a bird strike the giolnd with so few 

 feathers Wt on it. Mr. Hicks and Billy missed elegantly 

 with b >th barrels, and I was so surpri-ed at killing my 

 bird that I forgot to u*e my second barrel. We had 

 hardly loaded before another covey came sailing over us, 

 and the style in which we missed with six barrels was 

 truly elegant. Eleven shots and one bird was our record 

 at this stand, and we didn't think very much of our- 

 selves. 



We went east on the meadow after the birds we had 

 marked down. Two jumped directly in front of me. I 

 staggered thp first and missed the second, which dropped 

 to Billy's right barrel. Mr. Hicks marked down the 

 crippled bird, aud after Biily had killed an owl that 

 flopped in fiont of him, we went after the cripple, and 

 the old veteran M«ck found and pointed him. He whs a 

 big cock, stone dead, and had been much worse hit than 

 we had thought. We had yet one bird marked d wn, 

 and presently Mack located him. Mr. Hicks and Billy 

 both m ss d this bird at 30yds. and afforded me a whole 

 lot of fun for about half a day. 



In passing along a piece of breaking near the buggy, 

 old Mack began to yelp a I a hole he found under a sod. 

 "He's got a mink!" i-aid Mr. Hicks. "He'd rather hunt 

 minks than chickens any day." 



We tore up the sod and drove the mink to the end of the 

 burrow, where he showed his nose several times. Fear- 

 ing he would f scape the dogs — for we had now been 

 joined by the staghound Archer — we shot the mink, and 

 the dogs had a great tussle over the body. Mr. Hicks 

 has kept most of the minks killed off and loses no chance 

 to gft one. The prairie chickens have no worse enemy 

 than the m ; nk. 



In the corn Billy and I cross-fired on the same bird, 

 killing it, and he then cut down a second bird stone dead, 

 and lost a third badly crippled, while I was trying to get 

 some shells into my gun. We had had very fair success 

 and took in seven splendid birds with u--, feeling we had 

 earned even the bountiful dinner spread for us. 



After dinner oldMack was feeling pretty tired, but he 

 hobbled out with us again. We put up birds all over 

 the country, but they were so wild we could not get a 

 shot. We crouched in the grass and killed a regular 

 grandfather of a crow that came flying over, and which 

 was so large we thought it was a raven. Worst fooled 

 crow ever was. You ought to have heard him squawk 

 when we rose up out of the grass. This finished a very 

 good record on game enemies for the day — an owl, a 

 mink and a crow." We got no more possible chances at 

 chickens till evening, wnen we both snapped into a bird 

 that sprang out of the grass. I do not think I ever saw 

 any bird, ruffed grouse, wild pigeon or anything else, 

 take wing with such tremendous power. He seemed to 

 go 40ft. before he spread a wing. These grand grouse 

 are so different in October from what they are in Augu-t. 

 Make the open season Oct. 1, and enforce the law, and 

 these birds will protect themselves. 



We saw plenty of birds that afternoon. One covey flew 

 west of a bare meadow; another went out ou the dry 

 marsh, where we followed and jumped them wild. 

 Another very large band flew out from the edge of the 

 tall grass just at dusk. During this day we must have 

 seen between 250 and 300 hirds, and they were good ones. 



I trust I will be forgiven for so much detail, but this 



whole hunt was so interesting to me I cannot help telling 

 of it. The most interesting feature of it came as climax 

 right at the very la>t, and formed one of the most strik- 

 ing sporting incidents I ever saw. We were crossing; the 

 meadow where we saw our first big bunch of birds in 

 the morning, and it was so dark that we lost one bird 

 that I knocked down over the fence. The sun had set, 

 hut in the east the moon was risen a little height. The 

 light was dim and gray, and onlv a few objects could be 

 discerned upon the horizon. "We might as well take out 

 our shells." said Billy as we crawled through the last wire 

 fence. But a few yards further there rose a whirr of 

 wings, and a gray shadow shot off to the ri«ht of us». 

 Billy cut away right and left, and remembering a trick 

 learned in boyhood, I dropped to my knees and got a 

 f dr sight of the bird against the horizon. There was no 

 seeing of the gun barrel so I did as BJly did, swung away 

 ahead and cut away. Which of us struck the bird we 

 could not tell, but we thought we saw it sag after it had 

 flown a hundred yar ds. 



"Look! Look!'' cried my companion. And lo! there 

 against the faint eastern sky was the bird, towering 

 straight up in what we knew was the last tremendous 

 exercise of energy. Up and up it soared, and then, 

 directly in front of the full orb of the rieing moon, and 

 as distinct as if it had been pasted there, it stopped, long 

 enough to photograph a strange aud weird pictuie on our 

 two minds perhaps forever. Then like a stone, the bird 

 fell straight down, and we knew its soul had gone up to 

 the skies. 



" We'll never find him," said BUly, as we looked at 

 each other and started back. 



"Billy, we must find that bird, if it takes all night," 

 said I. So we called old hobbling Mack, and sought 

 along the black and shadowy ground. We overshot our 

 mark, it seems, by about a bundled yards, but we had 

 the line all right. Coming back on our tracks the old 

 dog — bless his heart — drew down to a point, and we knew 

 he had the fcent. It was fully ten mmutesafter the bird 

 bad been killed, and we knew the bird had never stirred 

 after it fell, but Mack scented it fully 30yds. and went 

 up to it over such a. crooked, uncertain route that we 

 wondered if the bird could be running. At last we found 

 the bird, lying dead on its back, and then we just burn- d 

 home snd hugged the old dog:, and told him all he needed 

 was a frame to be a mediaaval samt. Poor oi l Mack ! may 

 his tired legs hobble him into a comfortable corner of the 

 heaven where all good dogs go. 



So, in a really sen-ational manner, ended our pleasant 

 hunt, the n«?t bag of which was y0 splendid ch ckens, 3 

 snipe, 1 cottontail; 1 mink, 1 crow and 1 owl. And since 

 as much or more may happen for those who may asmem- 

 btrs of the association enjoy the privileges i'hat were 

 with such kindly courtesy extended to us, let us hope 

 that our host may meet every success he wishes in the 

 project wherein be is so heartily enlisted. Neither to 

 hurt or help him would I give anything but the facts as 

 they appeared to me, but to me it dops beem plain that a 

 grand upland park could indeed be started here if the 

 matter were properly handled, and for any that may be 

 iuterested therein I would like to say that the pinnated 

 grouse are there, and there in large numbers. They aTe 

 right there to-day. in October of 1889, within 80 miles of 

 the city which will presently hold a World's Fair to show 

 the progress of American civilization. That civilization 

 could show no greater wi-dom than in the establishment 

 of a preserve which would keep alive the noble birds 

 whose rapid disappearance has been a blot upon our time, 



Oct. 11 — Last Saturday mallards were reported in 

 great numbers on Mak-saw-ba marsh. Mr. J. Wiggins 

 got nineteen, and other good ba?s were made. Last 

 week mallards swarmed on the Illinois marshes. One 

 shooter at Henry bagged over one hundred in one clay. 

 Mr. W. W. MeFarland has sent up two barrels of ducks 

 from that country, presumably from Hennepin Club. 



A party of gentlemen start for Neep-e-nank Club, up 

 in Wh-c )csin, next Saturday. I am asked to accompany 

 them, and expert to find something of interest up there. 

 Ducks are the object of the trip. The fishing is thought 

 to be about over. 



Mr. Geo. T. Farmer is just back from a business trip to 

 Sr. Francis, Arkansas. He reports that a grand game 

 and fish country. Ducks are tueie in quantities. Quail 

 are very abundant and wild turkeys are numerous, while 

 squirrels throng the woods. Mr. Farmer bought four live 

 wild turkey--, and has sent them down to add to his col- 

 lecion of wild b rds, gee.-e, etc., at Cumberland Lodge. 



D< er shooting has begun in Wise nsin and Michigan. 

 It began 1 ist summer. The open date on deer in Michi- 

 gan is Oct. 1. Three dajs ago Messrs, G-. W. Skinner, 

 Harry Raton and an employe of the John Wilkinson Co., 

 of this city, got back from a two week*' trip in the North 

 Peninsula. Tiny are boasting around that they killed 

 five detr. "Don't say anything about it," said the last 

 gentlemen; "you know they all do it." 



To-day John Gillespie showed me a sort of decoy that 

 will revolutionize duck shooting. It is a mallard decoy, 

 made of canvas on a very lifelike model, and well painted. 

 When inflated it looks just like a duck. When not in 

 use it can be rolled up and put in a pocket along w th a 

 dozen others. The shooter who with infinite toil wades 

 out to a distant pond in the big marsh need not weight 

 himself down with a dozen wooden decoys. The wooden 

 birds will hold their own for certain sorts of work, but 

 for certain other sorts it is likely the new canvas bird, 

 which will cost no more per dozen, will take the lead 

 among duck shooters. This, I hear, is a Tennessee 

 patented invention, and will soon be put on the market. 



Messrs. Alex. T. Loyd and R. Donnelly had only fair 

 luck on their Iowa chicken trip. They report the birds 

 scarce. Tney bagged about 150 birds in two weeks, shoot- 

 ing in early September. Upon the other band, one 

 shooter this fall bagged 42 chickens in one day near 

 Aurora, in this S.ate. So much for the three years' close 

 season. Give us long close season?. Give us parks. 

 Give us intelligence and common sense. 



A good many ducks have been killed on Tolleston 

 marsh. Mr. F. A. Howe has been down three times, and 

 I hear his lowest bag was 43. One or two bigs of a dozen 

 have been made at Cumberland marsh. Ducks appeared 

 in good numbers at Fox Lake Sept. 28, and at English 

 Lake, Inch, Oct 2. No recent word from those points. 



Mr. Loyd told me that he and Mr. Donnelly used a 

 preservative called "Preservaline" on their chickens out 

 in Iowa, and got their birds home all ri^ht without ice. 

 He gave me some boxes of it, and I used it on the birds 

 in the Ashton hunt. They were in perfect order when 



we got back, though the weather was so cool we prob- 

 ably did not reallv need anything to p?'eserve them. 



It was at Mr. Hicks'a Rising Sun Farm that Mr. Mus- 

 sey and I found a pigeon-game that woidd just about 

 down the best of our trap shots, and it is one that Mr. 

 Hicks delights in springing on visiting shooteis. He has 

 a tall shed, in which the pigeons, to the cumber of 400 or 

 500, live. This shed stands on the edge of a hill. Tnirty 

 feet below and to the right of this srands a barn. The 

 birds fly out of the upper window of the shed, duck clown 

 and sweep around the corner of the barn. They go like 

 a shot, and the man who can stop three out of five before 

 they get around the barn, Rising Sun rules, can kill 150 

 out of 100 from ground traps. Billy Mussey and I f>tood 

 on the hill and went against this game till we sowed the 

 country with empty shells, and we only cleaned up 

 twenty birds, taking only the hard shots as the birds 

 darted down. There are three curves in the pigeon's 

 flight of say 40ft. down, up and to the right, and they go 

 like a streak of lightning when scared out of the shed. 

 It was kill or miss clean at such short range. We both 

 agreed it was the hardest practice we ever saw of any 

 kind whatever, and we have got money to put up on the 

 birds under Rising Sun rules. E. Hough. 



THREE DEER IN THREE SHOTS. 



LATE one afternoon in the early winter of 1S80, as I 

 wa? leisurely riding along returning to our Montana 

 ranch near the Highwood Mountains, three deer, a buck 

 and two does, jumped out of a small clump of trees in 

 front of me, ran out a short distance on the prairie, de- 

 liberately stopped short and turned to gaze upon uip. The 

 di.-tance was well within 150yds., and immediately dis- 

 meunting I threw up my rifle, drew sights on the buck, 

 and at the sharp crack he fell. With the remark, "Well, 

 old fellow, you are my meat." pumped in another cart- 

 ridge from the magazine and fired at the largest doe. 

 With one jump, down she went sprawling. By this time 

 the third deer was running and had reached the edge of 

 the woods, and while she was in the air bounding over a 

 1 ig I fiied. She also fell, but was up and off again in a 

 moment. Feeling sure of the first two deer and leaving 

 them to take care of themselves, I ran to the woods for 

 the victim of my third shot. As I expected, I found the 

 snow plentifully spattered with blood. After following 

 the trail for a short distance I found where the oeer had 

 lain down, leaving a pool of blood, and not much further 

 along I found the doe again lying down and gasping out 

 her last breath. On examination I could not find where 

 my rifle ball had entered, but beneath the right foreleg I 

 di.-covered a i-plinter of wood proiruding from a jagged 

 wound. The following day I returned to the spot wnere 

 the doe had jumped the log when I shot at ir, and dis- 

 covered the bullet hole in the Jog. I had missed the deer, 

 but as she jumped she had been impaled upon a sharp 

 branch, and in this extraordinary manner had received 

 her death wound. 



As for the second deer at which I had shot, and which 

 I supposed I should find dead at the spot where it had 

 fallen, or not far away, on returning to the place I was 

 forced to the conclusion that I had missed it. There was 

 no sign of blood on the snow, and nothing to make me 

 believe the deer had heen wounded. The cause of its fall 

 was apparent; at its first jump and at the moment 1 shot 

 it hud struck a piece of ice covered lightly by the snow, 

 slipped on it and went down m a heap. I never saw the 

 deer ag. in. I then looked for the buck at which 1 had 

 first fired. He was nowhere to be found. I saw where 

 he had fallen and floundered in the snow, and then where 

 he had made off. Two days la ter I saw a party of a dozen 

 Blackfeet or Piegan Indians circling a deer on the prab ie 

 about a mile distant. After an exciting chase, in which 

 they turned the deer from point to point by their sh^ts 

 and shouting, they rode the bewildered animal down and 

 shot him. I rode to the tpot, and there l*y the buck at 

 which I had fired. I was confident it was the same from 

 a malformation of the antlers, which I had noticed when 

 I had shot at him two days before. Aud there was the 

 mark of my bullet through the top of the neck. The ball 

 had creased the deer; that is, it had gone through the 

 gristle on the top of the neck, and had dropped him as 

 effectually as if shot through the heart, but the wound 

 had only stunned him, and" had done him no further in- 

 jury. This is the true history of how I knocked down 

 three deer in tlneo shots. Nawday. 



A MICHIGAN DEER COUNTRY. 



METROPOLITAN, Mich., Oct. 21.— There are quite a i 

 good many deer, wolves, bears, lynxes and wild- 

 cats in this locality. One man in our c^mp has killed 

 thirteen deer this season right around camp. I do the 

 scaling for two camps three miles apart; I carry my gun 

 back and forth, a Piepir rifle, and shot; and my r* cord 

 since the season opened is two deer, twenty-three par- 

 tridges, one rabbit. I have picked those up right 

 along the road. I am too busy to spend any time hunt- 

 ing, but would enjoy a nmni h with nothing else to do. 

 The country here is rough, full of cedar swamps, and a 

 thick undergrowth of birch, maple, popple and hemlock. 

 Deer find plenty of cover. I have a set of hi ths taken off 

 a doe killed Oct. 14. One prong measures 1 tin., the other 

 8m. They are covered with coarse velvet, and are quite 

 a curiosity here, coming from a doe, but I .-aw the deer 

 and helped eat her. She weighed Slolbs. dressed. 



B. B. 



Amateur Photography— I recently made a short trip into 

 the country, and took with me tne beauiiiul little '"Lilliput" 

 camera made by Anthony & Co., which is bo portable that it can 

 be carried in a good-=ized coat pocket. It contains six double 

 pl-nie holders, so that twelve views can be taken, and the plate 

 holders are so small that «• dozen mere plates. c?.n be carried in 

 • lie p/cket. No focusing is necessary, for this wonderful lens 

 apnears t"> acci mmodate itself 10 ail distances like the human 

 eye. You have in rely to point the cann ra at the object or scene 

 intended to be photographed, touch a little spriig and the deed 

 is done. On returning home jou have to place the plates m a 

 developing solution and then in a fixing bath, and you have the 

 perfect negative from which anynumh'er of pictures can betaken. 

 Those not oeshing to complete the proce.-s themselv. s can send 

 the . xposed plates to a ph ttoaranher, who will hand vou ready 

 mounted copies for a nominal price. I tuink the completion of 

 the pror ess the mosr intere.-tU'g part, and it is so simple and easv 

 that all (lazy people excepLe<- ) suouid do ic themselves.— John 

 Michels, late editor of Science- 



Names and Portraits of Birds, by Gurdon Trumbiill. A 

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 Mentify without question all the American game hirds whuh 

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