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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 17, 1890. 



ORTLLrA, Ont., April 3.— The Orillia Off-Hand Rifle Club com- 

 peted for the Wood & Delany prizes, distance 100 and 200yds., 5m. 

 bullseye at the 100 and 8in. at the 200. Scores: 



WW Wood 92 W Hammond 89 M Robinson 84 



A Harney 88 F J Delany 84 TMillicharap 81 



CFortier 87 GE Whiten 88 H Bingham 76 



FToogood 74 CWood 77 W r m Paine H 



JD Fortier 88 



ONTARIO RIFLEMEN.— The present standing of the various 

 clubs belonging to the Off-Hand Rifle Association of Ontario is as 

 follows, out of 53 matches shot Orillia has won 4*, Bradford 46, 

 Scarboro' 41, Aurora 35, King City 32, Newtonbrook 28. Midland 

 27, Point Edward 20, Strathroy 11, Byng Inlet 10, Alhston 8, Totten- 

 ham 6, Bolton Vi llage 1. 



THE TRAP. 



Scores for publication should be made out on >he printed blanks 

 prepared by the Forest and Stream, and furnished oralis to club 

 secretaries. Correspondents who favor its WW club scores are par- 

 ticularly requested to write on one side of the paper only. 



Secretaries of clubs and managers of tournaments are requested 

 to keep us advised of the dates of their shoots, so that we may 

 give due notice in our column of fixtures. 



FIXTURES. 



April 19— Tollev's Trap-Shooting Contest. Grand all-day shoot; 

 opening new grounds, at Catskill, N. Y. Geo. F. Tolley, SecV. 



April 24-25.— Sweepstake Tournament of the Muncie Gun Club, 

 at Muncie, Ind. , , _ 



April 30-May 2.— A. S. A. A. Tournament, Columbus, O. 



May 7-9— A. S. A. Tournament, Lafayette, Ind. 



May 14-16.— A. S. A. Tournament, St. Louis, Mo. 



May 21-23.— A. S. A. Tournament, Kansas City, Mo. 



Mav 2*-30.— A. S. A. Tournament, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Aug. 18-23.— Third Annual Keystone Tournament, at Corry. Pa 



THE U. S. TEAM TARGETS. 



WHEN the U. S. Cartridge Co. teams reached New York city 

 they were invited to use the Forest and Stream testing 

 screen at Claremont in making a few sample shots out of the guns 

 which had been making such notable records from one end of the 

 country to the other. The members of the team who were pres- 

 ent on that horrible shooting day at Claremont each fired such 

 shots as he thought adapted to show the merits of his arm at the 

 E heets and penetration pads. There was no regular or formal test 

 such as we make when we wish to try the full measure of a gun's 

 merits and to make a detailed report upon it. Rather, the marks- 

 men put their weapons on record with a few haphazard shots, 

 and they were indeed very haphazard in the sharp wind which 

 blew with keen force from the screen directly up to the faces ol 

 the men. W. S. Perry's Parker gun was fired by S. A. Tucker, 

 and W. - 

 and 



the range — - - — - 



to make a target or two after his arrival at home in Omaha. 

 These have not yet come to hand. 



B. O. HEIKES'S LEEEVER GUN, 355 PELLETS. 



J. A. Ruble with his 12-gauge Lefever gun was the first to fire. 

 The left barrel gave 317 pellets, with 11 sheets of penetration; nest 

 the same barrel gave 339 pellets pattern and 13 sheets penetration, 

 and a third shot gave 318 pattern. Two cartridges were analyzed. 

 They were in U. S. Climax shells, of black powder and No. 8 snot, 

 with card over shot and two B. E. wads and card over powder. 

 One charge had 522 pellets and the other 530 pellets, the shot 

 weight being 590 and 594grs. respectively. The powder charge 

 was 98grs. in each case. 



at and not of the circle struck about the central bullseye fired at. 

 The cartridge used in the W. S. Perry gun was the same as that 

 in the Cahoon and Budd guns. 



Harvey McMurchy, with his Smith 12, was the last to use the 

 cartridges from the box out of which Budd and Cahoon had taken 

 their shells. He used it in the right barrel, which gave 302 in the 

 pattern and 12 sheets in the penetration. In his left barrel he 

 used his regular black powder charge, having by analvsis a count 

 of 621 pellets, weighing 564 grains, a powder weight of 94 grains. 

 The shells were Climax, with a thin card over the shot, and 2 

 B.E. wads with a card over the powder. 



Rolla O. Heikes, with his Lefever 12, fired 4 shots, 3 from the 

 left barrel and 1 from the right. The right gave a pattern of 240 

 and a penetration of 10 sheets, while the left barrel charges were 

 290, 265 and 355 in pattern with 8, 11 and 8 sheets penetration re- 

 spectively. The charges used were of black powder in Climax 

 shells, having 2 B. E. wads and a card over the powder. Second 

 cartridge analyzed showed 651 and 638 pellets, weighing 605 and 

 611grs., with 91grs. of powder in each ca*=e. 



W. H. Wolstencroft was the only one of the team at Claremont 

 to shoot a foreign gun. His Greener showed a pattern of 331 from 

 the left and 290 from the right barrel, with 16 and 17 sheets pattern 

 penetration respectively. None of the cartridges used Dy the Phila- 

 delphia expert were taken for analysis, so it is impossible to judge 

 of the real merits of these patterns. 



W E. PERRY'S PARKER GUN, 397 PELLETS. 



C. E. Cahoon fired from his Parker 12-gauge gun 2 shots. The 

 right barrel gave 318 pattern and 16 sheets penetration on the 

 Dennison pads, while the left barrel gave 324 pellets in the pat- 

 tern 30in. circle. The cartridge used was the XT. S. Climax shell, 

 with a card over the shot and a card, 2 B.E. wads and a card over 

 the wood powder used. The shot was No. 7 trap, and when ana- 

 lyzed showed 469 pellets, weighing|582 grains, with 39 grains of 

 powder, 



C. W. Budd, the captain of the Western team, had his Smith 

 12-gauge and tired 2 shots from the left barrel. The first gave 297 

 pattern with 12 sheets penetration, and the second 218 pattern to 

 13 sheets penetration. The charge used was the same as that 

 noted for Cahoon. 



W. S. Perry had his gun fired by proxy, S. A. Tucker giving 3 

 shots from it. The first left barrel shot showed 323 pellets and 13 

 sheets of penetration, the second left barrel shot showed 314 in 

 the nattero* with 17 sheets through the penetration pads; the right 

 barrel gave a pattern sheet of 295 and a pad record of 13 sheets. 

 In t^ese, as in all the other eases noted, the patterns given are of 



badge, three good money prizes had been put up. J. Vroome or 

 "The Man from Jersey, "as his club mates facetiously call him, 

 showed the younger members how to kill birds, for his score was 

 the only one without the fatal 0. Hyde, Van Staden, H. Knebel, 

 Sr., Plate and C. Jumbo, Jr., killed 6 each and div. second. J. 

 Ring won third by outshooting five competitors in the shoot-off 

 of the tie. The score: 



Rankin 4 Akhurst 5 D Snipe 4 



Cahill 4 Ring 5 Hass 5 



Hyde 6 Mousee 5 Ellerhorst 3 



Brown ..4 Vroome 7 H Knebel, Jr 5 



Van Staden 6 Pfohlmann 4 Gillniann 3 



Doyle 3 Schultze 8 Simmons , 4 



Bohling. 7 H Knebel, Sr 6 Hopkins 4 



Deetjen ..4 Plate 6 



April 11. -The Phoenix Gun Club, of Brooklyn, is one of the 

 most unique organizations of its kind on Long Island, and the 

 rules of the club are entirely different from those adopted by any 

 other body of marksmen. They held their second meeting of the 

 year at Miller's park, an the Jamaica plank road, L. I., to-day, 

 and although each of the nine participants (ihe club is limited to 

 ten members) shot at 15 birds there was no reward either in the 

 shape of a medal or of money prizes. To effect this seeming in- 

 congruity the shooters had nothing to pay either for the birds or 

 for the. sumptuous dinner provided by Mrs. Miller, to which the 

 tired marksmen did full justice. The dues collected during the 

 last four weeks were sufficient to cover all expenses. Another 

 queer feature of the shoot was that no bettiug was allowed either 

 on the general result or on single birds; the members of course 

 were well enough posted, but the ra«h outsider who tried to make 

 the meeting more interesting by planking down his money met 

 with a sudden and very unwelcome rebuke from President Fre- 

 leigh. Uncle Billy Hughes, who is also a veteran in the Jersey 

 City Heights Gun Club, carried off the honors in the club shoot 

 with 14 killed out of 15, a performance all the more remarkable, 

 as the gun had to be held below the elbow until the bird was on 

 the wing. After the regular meeting team shooting at blnerocks 

 was the order of the day, B. Botty and M. Brown choosing sides. 

 The first shoot, at 5 bluerocks each man, was a tie with 21 out of 

 a possible 30 for both sides. On the shoot off, at 3 bluerocks each, 

 Botty's side won with 13 to 12 out of 18. 



a. B. WHITNEY'S SMITH GtJN, 449 PELLETS. 



H. B. Whitney, with a Smith 10-gauge, on the range fired 3 shots 

 from the left barrel with patterns of 363, 255 and 335, and penetra- 

 tion records of 10. 12 and 9 sheets. Subsequently came the sheets 

 sent bv mail as tired with Tatham's No. 8 soft at 40yds.. and these 

 show 449 pellets for the sheet marked left barrel and 421 for that 

 marked right barrel. Two Whitney cartridges when opened 

 showed 3 P. E. wads and a card over the powder and a card over 

 the shot; 561 and 587 were the counts of Beliefs and 624 and 600, re- 

 spectively, the weights in grains, while lOSgrs. of fine black pow- 

 der were turned out from each case. In these two targets no 

 penetration record was taken. . 



At Boston Mr. W. E. Perry fired a few shots, assisted by E. 

 Hough, our chronicler with the teams. He fired both his Parker 

 and Smith guns, as used by him at various times on the journey. 

 It was a bright clear day with a cross wind, but the patterns were 

 from struck circles. The cartridge showed counts of 534, 538 and 

 535 pellets, with uniform weight in each case of o66grs., and with 

 powder charge of 113 and lUgrs. The charge was with 3 B.E. 

 wads and no card over the coarse black powder used and a card 

 over the shot. The first three shots were from the Parker, the 

 right barrel showing pattern of 397 and 389 pellets, and the left ot 

 366 pellets, no penetration pads being available. The Smith gun 

 was fired with the same cartridges, and two right barrel shots 

 gave patterns of 415 and 382 flellets, while one from the left barrel 

 had 410 pellets in the circle. The final shot of the series to be 

 recorded was from this same Smith gun, the target has the in- 

 scription "3kldrs., 10-gauge, wood powder, lJ4oz. chilled 8 shot," 

 and has a pattern of 391 pellets. 



To assist our readers to an appreciation of these patterns we 

 give cuts of the targets made by the Whimey (Smith) gun, having 

 449 pellets, of the W. E. Perry (Parker) gun with 397 shot marks, 

 and of the R. O. Hoikes (LeFever) gun with 355 pellets. From this 

 whole exhibit may be gained a very fair idea of the excellent 

 quality of arms used by these team men in their work over the 

 country, but it must be borne in mind that these were expert 

 guns in the hands of experts, and that the better the gun, so far 

 as close pattern is concerned, the more shy should be the duffer 

 or mediocre shot taking it in hand. Let every man select a gun 

 according to his skill, and then we shall hear less abuse of good 

 guns by men incapable of using them according to their merits. 



BROOKLYN TRAP NOTES. 



BROOKLYN, April 9.— The Parkway Gun Club held the Brst of 

 its twelve monthly shoots on the Dexter Park shooting 

 grounds, Cypress Hills, L. I., to-day. The attendance was good 

 eighteen members stepping to the score and shooting at 7 1ivt 

 birds each. The birds"were a fair lot and the meeting a pronounced 

 success. As is usually t he case on wet days the marksmen had to 

 depend mostly on their first barrel, the smoke of which hung and 

 made second fire more than uncertain. Four shooters had clean 

 scores of 7, and in the shoot-off at 3 birds Messrs. Helgans and 

 E Steinheuser dropped only 2 birds each, Blake and Van Wyckoff 

 continuing on, miss and out. The latter missed on the fifth round, 

 and Blake won first prize and the new medal with 12 straight. 

 The beautiful and ornamental leather medal which the club pur- 

 chased lately, and which is as large as a good-sized dinner plate, 

 reposed peacefully on the broad chest of the club's president. Mr. 

 H J Bookman, who won it fairly on 5 misses out of 9. Three 

 sweepstakes followed the regular event, good scores being made 



lD Club shoot for medal and extra prizes, modified Hurliugham 



rules, club handicap: ' 



' E J Steinheuser 7 J Fench 6 



WCbarlick 5 J Van Wyckoff 7 



J Blake 7 J Bennett 6 



R Phister 5 Col Selover 6 



...3 J Savage 5 HErichs 5 



.3 M Bonden 3 J Bramwell 4 



KANSAS CITY GUN CLUBS. 



THE 16-GAUGE CLUB. 



ANSAS CITY claims to have the only organized gun club in 

 . the United States that confines its shoots strictly to the use 

 ot the 16-gauge gun. The original intention was to have only 16 

 members and to shoot at 16 birds each contest. The popularity of 

 this club brought so many applications from members of other 

 clubs that the constitution was changed to admit of 25 members. 

 This club made the claim before the American Shootiug Associa- 

 tion that brought about the changes in the live-bird boundary 

 and the 'proper handicap for the 16 and 20-bore guns. The last 

 shoot was held on April 1, the day being fine and the birds fair.' 

 Just 16 members reported, and their scores are below the average 

 made on former occasions. The score: 



J K Guinotte.20200122102122o0— 10 J K Stark Uo02o00o00o0100o - 2 



J B Porter. ...2 122-14 D Underwood 10 I022oil01I2ol-ll 



JAR Elliott. 2110012211121011- 13 A Walmsley. .21001110H121201— 12 

 J L Porter. .1110012102021021-11 C F Holmes. .00o00111io22Ilol— 8 

 A A Whippte.olll200022201101-10 F J Smith . , . 201o22200o222220— 10 

 E Chouteau ..]20-'U1001ol02ol-10 A E Thomas. ,22211102o3100I 12-1 2 

 W Halliwell . . 0002102111030132 -10 J E Rile v . ,2222112221211022—15 

 J E Guiiiotte..2011101120100021-10 W V Reiger . .021210001112o2l2— 11 



THE FORESTER GUN CLUB. 



Last summer this club was organized, and for the most part 

 the members were not as experienced as those composing the 

 older clubs. Tbev have improved very much in their shooting, 

 and the shoot held to-dav will show that they now hold their own 

 with any club in Kansas City both in numbers and straight scores. 

 Mr Eades won the first medal by shooting out the others who 

 tied on 10. It was necessary for him to kill 9 straight, as Mr. Al- 

 derson grassed 8 before stopping. Mr. Alderson Avas using a 

 Parker gun made for Mr. Riley, and is much pleased with its 

 shooting qualities. The score: 



A A Whipple 1120110202- 7 C F Holmes 1100111111- 8 



F S Groves 2202011121- 8 F K Hoover. 1222121111-10 



J G Mitchell 1202020202- 6 L W Buck 2110212H02— 7 



O A Pollak 2100101111- 7 J T Sears 2222122202- 9 



M H Dickinson 1202111112- 9 E W Western 1201022001- 6 



J P Knocbe 2111211221-10 W A Alderson 1111211112- 10 



J H Knoche 0002222021- 6 L Kunz 1112210200- 7 



W A Eades 1121211121—10 D P Doak 0002112100- 5 



G L Jones 2212111110- 9 C T Allcutt 1100120101— 6 



C J Schmelzer 0120211220- 7 



BLUE VALLEY GUN CLUB. 



This club is composed of members who live in the suburb com- 

 monlv known as Sheffield. They use targets only, have a large 

 membership, but at their meeting held Wednesday there were 

 but few members present. Frank We =t and Sarn White tied on 

 18 out of 20, and on the shoot off White won. The score: 

 F West-...millllll0m011111-18 A Porter.. 10000011101111110110—12 

 L Scott... 1101 01111 1 1 101011 1 11—10 S White.. 11011101111111111111-18 

 N Jassett. 00001011111010000111—10 



SOUTH SIDE GUN CLUB. 



This club meets on the south side of the city, and with the Blue 

 Valley Gun Club compose the only clubs of the city that do not 

 shoot at Elliott's Park. Targets fbluprocks) are used exclusively. 

 M Doran and F. Carroll tied on 18. Doran won on the. shoot off: 



M Murphy U011Hm011110-ll F Carroll 111111011111110—13 



MBb'ran... 111110101111111—13 F P Hanks. .. ,001010001010010- 5 



H Ragan 111110111101100-11 A E Ashbrook.l HOiOrOlllOOll — 8 



L KriTzer 011111101101010-10 J H Knoche.. llU01l010m0t-ll 



Sub. 



CANADIAN TRAP NOTES. 



TORONTO, April 3.— The annual shoot of the Toronto Gun 

 Club, captained by the president and vice-president, Messrs. 

 Geo. Briggs and J. Price, respectively, was decided at the Wood- 

 bine this afternoon. The terms were 15 men a side at 10 birds 

 each, and the match was won by the president's team bv 13 birds, 

 following being the full scores, at 10 sparrows, 5 traps. 18yds. rise: 

 President's Side. Vice-President's Side. 



W Levens 5 



H St.einhueser 4 



E Helgans 7 



A Andrews 5 



H J Bookman. 

 JHaller 



Eirst sweepstakes at 3 birds each, ties miss and ont, 25yds. rise, 

 12 entries: Phister and Van Wyckoff div. first; Andrews, helover, 

 Bramwell, Steinheuser, Savage, second; Fench and Ehrichs third. 



Second sweepstakes, 5 entries, 10 bluerocks each, two best men 

 to win, ties miss and out: Van Wyckoff 10, Helgans 9, Bennett 8, 

 Fench 8, Col. Selover 7. 



Third sweepstakes, same conditions: Van Wyckoff 10, Bennett 

 8 Helgans 8, Fench 8, Col. Selover 5. Ties for second prize, Fench 

 3' Helgans 2, Bennett L Referee, H. J. Bookman; scorer, Prof. 

 Dettloff. 



April .9.— A remarkably long and close race decided the winner 

 in' to-day's shoot of the Fountain Gun Club on Blattmacher's 

 shooting ground at Woodlawn, L. I. The three crack shots of the 

 club C. W. Jones, Dr. Shields and E. Purdy, brought down 7 

 bitds each, while four men were tied for second on 6 out of 7. 

 The handsome extra prizes which have been offered by some 

 members of the club were a sufficient incentive to put the three 

 shooters on their mettle. Not a bird was missed up to the thirti- 

 eth round, and the nt-xt three rounds did not change the result. 

 On the thirty-fourth the crash came at last; Dr. Shields missed 

 and left Jones and Purdy to continue the battle. The result was 

 quickly reached, Purdy missing his thirty-fifth bird, while Jones 

 killed,'winning at last with the handsome score of 35 straight. Of 

 the four shooters who killed 6, Dr. Schwartz and Snapper Garri- 

 son were the winners. In a sweepstake at 3 birds, then miss and 

 out, Garrison outshot Jones and Purdy and took first money. Dr, 

 Shields won second prize and Blankley third. 



April 10.— The fine wea'her of to-day brought out an unusually 

 large number of memoeTS from the Unknown Gun Club of Brook- 

 lyn, on the occasion of their monthly club shoot at old Dexter 

 Park, L. I. The difficult Lesig Island rules, gun below the elbow 

 and use of one barrel only, were strictly enforced, and this ac- 



G H Briggs. . . .1111111111-10 



BPearsall 1111111111-10 



W Pearson .... 11 0111111— 9 

 W Felstead — 11101 1 1111— 9 

 C Pickering... 1101111111- 9 

 W McDowall.. 1111111110— 9 



D Belden 1111011110- 8 



R Dixon 1010111111- 8 



TS Bayles. .. .1111011101- 8 

 S Staneland.. OlOllomi- 7 



D Blea 1000011111- 6 



A Purse 101010U10- 6 



F Martin 1111001001- 6 



S Caldwell... .0010000111— 4 



J Price 0001000011— 3 



C H Riggs 1111111111—10 



JTownson 1101111111— 9 



DVau Black.. 1111101111— 9 

 F G Veritv.... 1111111110— 9 



GPearsall 1011111111— 9 



C C Small 1010111101— 7 



J Mitchell 1111110001— 7 



H Jackson 1010101111— 7 



J R Wells 0110110101- 6 



J Foreman 0111110001— 0 



H Emery 1100101011— H 



P Wakefield. . .OllOOlOlOl— 5 

 G Henry OOlllOOOll— 5 



$,rnnk circles taken for the bast results from the 4ft. square fired sonnts mostly for fhe comparatively low scores, Besides the QW> 



RMeldrum... .1010100010- 4-113 H Maughan... .0001100000 - 2-100 

 The first shoot for the Briggs cup, presented by the president of 

 the club for competition, came off at the same place and 

 time. Messrs. Charles, Pearsail and Van Black tied at 23 out of 

 a possible 25 birds, but in the shoot-off Van Black woo. The other 

 competitors retired. In the. evening the members of the club met 

 at their rooms on King street, east, and sat down to a splendid 

 supper. At the head of the table was placed the Briggs challenge 

 cup, a really magnificent trophy, standing with pedestal about 

 30in. high. During the evening the president's cup and the Ven- 

 try medal were accepted by Aid. Small on behalf of Mr. Van 

 Black, who was unavoidably absent. The gathering marked one 

 of the most enjoyable events in the history of the Toronto Gun 

 Club. 



Toronto, April 4.— Stark's Eastern Gun Club held its first shoot 

 at live pigeons on Good Friday afternoon. The teams were cap- 

 tained by Messrs. Chas. Ayres and Frank Paterson, 8 men a side, 

 7 birds each, 26yds. rise. The prizes were a gold medal, given by 

 Mr. Ayres, and several other valuable articles. The lucky man 

 turned up in Mr. Geo. Piatt, who won the medal by killing 14 

 straight birds: . , „ 



Team No. 1. 



C Ayres 7 G Henry 6 J Blong 7 



" Sid Smith ...3 A E Dixon 6-«j 



H Hoffman 4 



Team No. 2. 



T Herrick 6 W B Poulton. . .3 



ft Piatt 7 W Barton 4-43 



G Renardson 6 H Hereon A 



The blnerock shooting tournament to-day at the Woodbine 

 started in the morning with pleasant weather, but shortly after 

 noon, before the larger part of the shooters had arrived, rain set 

 in *Mid prevented the completion of the tonruameat. The la*fc 



H Page. 

 W Brown 



F Paterson. . . 6 



T Chambers 6 



