Jan, 1, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



476 



CLAREMONT, N. J., Nov. 28, 1890. 

 TEST MADE AT FOREST AND STREAM GUN-TESTING SCREEN. 



Gun— Colt Haminerless. Cost, $60. No. of gun, 1,337. 



Weight, T^'lbs. Length of barrels, 30in. Gauge, 13. 



Right barrel, modified choke. Left barrel, full choke. 

 Weatlier— Clear. Direction of wind, 4 o'clock. Force of 



wind, 10 miles per hom\ Thermometer, dry, 28° . Do., 



wet, 33° . Humidity, 70° . Barometer, 30. lain. 

 Charge, as given by holder of gun : 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Shell— Rival Winchester. 

 Po wder, Bran d— Lyman. 



Powder, Quantity drs. 



( Make 



Shot ■{ Quantity— 1% oz. 

 ( Size— No. 7 Chilled. 



CARTRIDGE ANALYSIS. 

 Three Cartridges Taken at Random. 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Loading. Powder. 

 Card over shot; 3 B. E. j 1. . . 68 grs. 

 wads and card over- 3... 65 grs. 

 powder. ( 3 . . , 64 grs. 



Slwt. 



533 grs. 339 pellets. 



80S pellets. 

 331 pellets. 



520 grs. 

 538 grs. 



Average 65 grs. 530 grs. 328 pellets. 



TEST AT 40 YARDS. 

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



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



Pattern. Penetration, h pellets. Pattern. Penetration, s pelle 



1. 139 pellets. 11 sheets. t. 181 pellets. 15 sheets. 



3. 133 pellets. 11 sheets. 2. 146 pellets. 13 sheets. 



3. 148 pellets. 12 sheets. 3. 154 pellets. 15 sheets. 



4. 128 pellets. 13 sheets. 4. 159 pellets. 16 sheets. 



5. 144 pellets. 10 sheets. 5. 166 pellets. 19 sheets. 



Av. 138 pellets. 11 sheets. Av. 161 pellets. 15 sheets. 



77ira: shots at 4-foot square; 80-inch Circle selected from 

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 169 pellets. 1 172 pellets. 



2 173 pellets. 2 170 pellets. 



3 174 pellets. 3 173 pellets. 



Average 172 pellets. ' Average 172 pellets. 

 TEST AT 60 YARDS. 

 Four Shots per Barrel f rom rest at fixed 80-inch Circle. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern,. Penetration, a pellets. 



39 pellets. 

 45 pellets. 

 51 pellets. 

 63 pellets. 

 39 pellets. 



5 sheets. 



6 sheets. 

 .. sheets. 

 10 sheets. 



9 sheets. 



LEFT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Pene.trafim 



51 pellets. 

 53 pellets. 

 45 pellets. 

 67 pellets. 

 67 pellets. 



. ... s pellets. 

 S sheets. 

 7 sheets. 

 . . sheets. 

 9 sheets. 

 . . sheets. 



Av. 47 pellets. 7 sheets. Av. 56 pellets. 6 sheets. 



'Three shots at 4-foot square; 80-inch, Circle selected from 

 best pattern. 



BIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 46 pellets. 1 59 pellets. 



2 75 pellets. 3 67 pellets. 



3 61 pellets. 3 71 pellets. 



Average 60 pellets. 



Average 65 pellets. 



CLAREMONT, N. J., Nov. 28, 1890. 

 TEST MADE AT FOREST AND STREAM GUN-TESTING SCREEN. 



G ten— Colt Hammeiiess. Cost, 160. No. of gun, 1,337. 



Weight, 73^1bs. Length of barrels, 30in. Gauge, 12. 



Right barrel, modified choke. Left barrel, full choke. 

 Weather— Clear. Direction of wind, 4 o'clock. Force of 



wind, 10 miles per hour. Thermometer, dry. 28°. Do., 



wet, 23°. Humidity, 70° . Barometer, 30. 12in. 

 Charge, as given by holder of gun: 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Shell— Winchester Rival. 

 Powder, Brand— Lyman Compressed. 



Powder, Quantity drs. 



( Mak e 



Shot] Quantity— 1% oz. 

 ( Size— No. 7 Chilled. 



CARTRIDGE ANALYSIS. 

 Tfiree Cartridges Taken at Random. 



BOTH BARRELS. 

 Loading. Poivder. 

 Card over shot; P. E. \ 1 . . . 67 grs. 

 and felt wads, card-' 2... 67 grs. 

 and perforated card ( 3 . . . 63 grs. 



over powder. 



Average 66 grs. 



Shot. 



506 grs. 328 pellets. 



329 pellets. 

 329 pellets. 



510 grs. 

 506 grs. 



507 grs. 329 pellets. 

 TEST AT 40 YARDS. 



Five Shots per Barrel f rom rest at fixed 30-in ch Circle. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 



Pa-Hern. Penetration, » pellets 



1. 155 pellets. 



2. 150 pellets. 



3. 196 pellets. 



4. 169 pellets. 



5. 224 pellets. 



13 sheets. 

 21 sheets. 



14 sheets. 

 17 sheets. 

 31 sheets. 



1. 204 pellets. 



2. 203 pellets. 



3. 138 pellets. 



4. 219 pellets. 



5. 201 pellets. 



14 sheets. 



14 sheets. 



15 sheets. 

 14 sheets. 



16 sheets. 



Av. 179 pellets, 17 sheets. Av. 193 pellets. 14 sheets. 



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

 best pattern. 



KIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 JS1 pellets. 1 206 pellets. 



2 196 pellets. 2 236 pellets. 



3 230 pellets. 3 219 pellets. 



Average 202 pellets. Average 220 pellets. 



TEST AT 60 YARDS. 



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



LEFT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, j pellets. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 

 1. 54 pellets. 10 sheets. 1. 



2. 71 pellets. 



3. 65 pellets. 



4. 99 pellets. 



5. 58 pellets. 



. - sheets. 



4 sheets. 

 7 sheets. 



5 sheets. 



46 pellets. 

 91 pellets. 



81 pellets. 

 88 pellets. 



82 pellets. 



6 sheets. 

 8 sheets. 

 10 sheets. 

 6 sheets. 

 8 sheets. 



Av. 70 pellets. 6 sheets. Av. 77 pellets. 7 sheets. 



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

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 S5 pellets. 1 93 pellets. 



3 114 pellets. 2 84 pellets. 



3 68 pellete. 3 91 pellets. 



Average 89 pellets, 



Average 89 pellets. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. 26.— Thus far the weather pre- 

 dictions have failed as usual, and instead of the 

 severe winter we were led to expect, we have had one of 

 the most exceptional mildness. This will be good for the 

 game, unless we are treated to blizzards later on. To- 

 night it is threatening snow, and we may have a taste of 

 the hard weather which at this date prevails all about us. 

 Christmas day here was mild and pleasant. 



There has been little hunting going on, not enough to 

 determine whether or not the ducks have been with us 

 all along. A good many mallards have doubtless been 

 along the Kankakee, and last week they were rising in 

 some open ponds near Koutts in very considerable num- 

 bers. Last week also a half dozen mallards were killed 

 one day on Mak-saw-ba marsh by Dr. Buechner and L. R. 

 Brown. 



Quail have been a good crop, and offered better shoot- 

 ing than most of our shooters knew or took advantage of. 

 Speed the mild winter, so that next year we may gain an 

 occasional sight of Bob White. 



Dec. 38.— The third meeting of the Possum Club trans- 

 pired last Tuesday evening, and like the previous assem- 

 blages was a pronounced success. There were present 

 between forty and fifty members, old and prospective, 

 among others Messrs. Abner Price, W. L. Shepard, John 

 Heiland, M. J. Eich, W. P. Mussey, C. S. Wilcox, C. B. 

 Babeuf, G, W. Andrews. R. A. Turtle, C. K. Herrick, 

 Geo. T. Farmer, C. D. Gammon, O. F. Malcolm, L. W. 

 Stevens, J. W. Sheehan, W. A. Mitchell, F. A. Place, L. 

 W. Hatnline, Fred Pfeffer, C. B. Dicks, R. S. Cox, Dr. J, 

 M, Hutchinson. Col. Felton was in the chair and pre- 

 sided with great aplomb, eclat and finesse, insomuch that 

 everything was soon efl rapport, with a good deal of jeu 

 d'esprii and that sort of thing. The committee on organ- 

 ization reported a constitution, which was read and 

 adopted, though nobody knew what was embodied in it. 

 Everything goes in the Possum Club. Only one clause 

 met objection, and the argument over that nearly led to 

 the mobbing of the committee. It was proposed to make 

 the corporate name the "Opossum Club of Chicago." 

 Cries and jeers met this clause when it was read, and 

 shouts arose of "Why not call it the McPossum Club?" 

 "No hyphenated foreigner here," "No Irish need apply," 

 etc., etc. The committee hurriedly apologized, and to- 

 day the name remains just plain Possum Club. 



Letters of regret were read, purporting to come from 

 Mayor De Witt C. Cregier, Bill Nyc, G rover Cleveland, 

 James G. Blaine, Chauncey M. Depew and Benjamin 

 Harrison. All these gentlemen will attend later, if they 

 can get away. Mr. L. H. Vories, of Kansas City, and 

 Messrs. Maillet, Hayward and Hart, of Crown Point, Ind., 

 all sent letters of compliment and regret at not being able 

 to come and see possum at the highest branch of the tree. 

 Mr. Abner Price was chosen chairman for the next 

 meeting. It 13 probable that some sort of regular pro- 

 gramme will be formulated by that time, a fact which is 

 highly desirable. Mr. Werner's complimentary banquet 

 to the club is on the first Tuesday in January. * The club 

 secretary, Mr. Mussey, had some striking invitation cards 

 out for this meeting, and has designs for something better 

 yet next time. Mr. Werner's possums remain succulent 

 as ever. 



Some one or other has mailed to me an unkind clip- 

 ping from the Louisville, Ky., Commercial which alleges 

 that Mallory Davis, of the Gait House in that city, and 

 Virgil S.Wright lately went out bear hunting near Louis- 

 ville and killed a calf, for which they had to liquidate to 

 the extent of $10. The accuracy of this is not vouched 

 for. It probably cost them more than $10. 



Messrs. Wolfred N. Low and Sam Booth have started 

 south on the Missouri trip mentioned some weeks earlier. 



Mr. Geo. E. Marshall and his friend Mr. Metcalf have 

 started south, for Tennessee or Mississippi, they don't 

 care which and don't know where. They made up their 

 minds on about five minutes' notice to-day that they 

 needed some quail shooting, and it is now too late for 

 that in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri—or will be in the 

 latter State by Jan. 1. E. Hough. 



MISSOURI GAME NOTES. 



SENECA, Mo., Dec. 15. — Big snow, heap big hunt, big- 

 Injun kill buck. On the 7th of this month we got 

 our first snow storm and it was a good one, being 8in. on 

 the level. On Monday it was very cold; "not much 

 hunt," so said the Injun; but on "Tuesday it turned 

 warmer, and the woods were full of hunters that day 

 after all kinds of game. I have only heard of one deei- 

 being killed, that was a buck, a very fine one weighing 

 1801bs. I have not heard of any turkeys being killed, 

 and not many quail; the price of quail is so low that pot- 

 hunters cannot make much by shooting. 



Jones, Workman and Harman pulled out on Monday 

 morning for Council House Bottom, about sixteen miles 

 from here. They arrived there about 12 o'clock, and 

 pitched their tent and got things in shape for a few days' 

 stay and then went to the river, put in their boat and set 

 out the decoys, but alas, the ducks had left the river and 

 gone to the spring branches or gone further south, for 

 they only killed thirteen. After waiting and watching 

 all day Tuesday for ducks they left the river and went 

 out on the flat woods to hunt quail, which they found 

 there in abundance. Jones says if it had not been for a 

 covey of quail getting up just as they did he would 

 surely have killed a fine buck, but he shot at the quail 

 and the deer got up about 40yds. ahead, and just behind 

 a treetop from him, and he could not shoot it! 



Indian Joe Bigknife was in yesterday. He says, "I 

 killini one buck." The writer was out on Wednesday 

 and killed ten quail in a couple of hours. I have also 

 had some fine shooting at prairie chickens this fall : on 

 two trips I got forty-two chickens, and could have killed 

 more each time, but I always go down on the train and 

 that only gives me a short time in the fields; but for all 

 that it is fine sport to follow my old pointer Rover and 

 see him do the work just as intelligently as you or I 

 could do it. Nothing is more pleasing to a sportsman 

 than to watch his dog approaching a covey of chickens 

 out in the open prairie when they are lying close; it is a 

 beautiful sight. p. 



Another Page for the Coon Hunters.— Next week 

 we shall devote another page to the hunters of the musi- 

 cal coon. Why musical? Because his squeal is not alto- 

 gether unmeloclious, and as "leader" of a band of yelping- 

 mongrels and true-voiced thorougbreds he is a provoker 

 of music sweet to the ears of the followers. 



Broome County, N. Y., Game.— Binghamton, N. Y., 

 Dec. 13. — I have been pleased to note the efforts that have 

 been put forth to introduce foreign game birds into this 

 country, and it seems to me that this interest on the part 

 of a few persons certainly calls for an interest on the part 

 of tho many that will protect the work that has been 

 done along tho lines. About one week ago a young man 

 brought an English pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) to a 

 taxidermist of our city to be mounted. In answer to 

 questions, that were answered reluctantly, it was found 

 that the bird (a very fine male) had been sent to him by 

 his father, who had shot it and did not care to give it into 

 the hands of a taxidermist near where it had been killed. 

 It was also claimed that the law allows no shooting of 

 these birds until Dec. 15. Now this is indeed news to me, 

 and if there is any such law I am ignorant of it. I have 

 been unable to find out where the bird was sent from, but 

 am quite sure that it came from some point east of us. 

 The young man admitted that it had been shot near a 

 private park. If there are those who are destroying the 

 game that has been placed here at such an expense in time 

 and money, they should be tracked down and exposed if 

 it can be done. ' While I am writing I will also refer to 

 the recent action of our supervisors (Broome county) in 

 refusing to pass a law prohibiting the sale and marketing 

 of ruffed grouse and woodcock. These birds are being 

 indiscriminately slaughtered in our neighborhood and 

 shipped to different markets. In fact, there seems to be 

 an almost total disregard for game law around here. 

 Bass and other game fish are speared in warm weather, 

 and. only a short time since a party of thirteen were seen 

 "snatching" them through the ice. Robins, scarlet tan- 

 agei^s, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and other song birds were 

 shot during the summer in large numbers without any 

 apparent excuse, except an hour's sport. Some action 

 should be taken, some interest awakened and the law en- 

 forced for the protection of these interests in this locality. 

 What can '.be done?— Will A. Hakes. [Why was not 

 the game protector advised of these things?] 



Quail in Town.— Bob White— Bob— Bob White— Bob 

 White. The merry whistle of the partridge, so dear to 

 the ear of every hunter, attracted the attention of the 

 early risers in the vicinity of Fourteenth and K streets 

 this morning just as day was breaking. Among the 

 passengers in the first car of the Fourteenth street line 

 which left the stables was Mr. H. M. Dickinson, a prom- 

 inent member of the Columbia Athletic Club, a born 

 hunter and a first-class shot. Now, the whistle of a par- 

 tridge is to him sweeter music than the jingle of money 

 on pay day. As the car in question reached K street 

 judge of his surprise, when on looking out of the car 

 window he saw a whole covey of partridges, fourteen in 

 the bunch, promenading up K street. Now, Mr. Dickin- 

 son is in charge of the District sand yard, and the car he 

 was on would just get him there on time. But the temp- 

 tation was too great, and he had to get off, as he told the 

 conductor, "just to see them fly." Picking up a clod of 

 dirt he threw it at the birds and killed one. The re- 

 mainder flew into Franklin Park, where he lost sight of 

 them. Later in the day he presented the bird to the 

 superintendent of streets. This is not the first time par- 

 tridges have been seen in the city. About five years ago 

 the writer shot two in his back yard near Pennsylvania 

 avenue. The birds were evidently traveling and selected 

 the night as the best time. They probably came to 

 Washington to spend Christinas.— WcisMnqton Evening 

 Star, Dec. 24. 



Locked Antlers. — Metropolitan, Mich., Dec. 24. — 

 Some men working for the White & Friant Lumber Co. 

 found last Sunday two bucks dead with their antlers 

 locked. They were locked on only one side and one 

 buck's neck was broken: the other could not get loose and 

 perished. The boys cut their heads off, and they are now 

 lying on a stump in front of the camp locked together 

 just as found. Both heads haA-e five prongs, and are fair 

 size and shape. They are locked together in such a way 

 that if the horns were scalped off the heads the horns 

 would come apart readily. Their noses being firmly fixed 

 across each other holds the horns together. Anybody 

 interested in such things I presume could get those'for a 

 small sum. — B. Bristol. 



St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 26.— The game laws of this State 

 are very deficient in many respects, and there is a move- 

 ment on foot among local sportsmen to ask the law- 

 makers when they meet this coming session to amend 

 them. At present there is no closed season for ducks, 

 and as numbers of wood ducks breed in this State, it is 

 proposed to introduce a bill protecting them during the 

 summer months. All the sportsmen that your corres- 

 pondent has spoken to in reference to the question agree 

 that the webfeet ought to be protected, consequently 

 there is no doubt if the matter is properly presented to 

 the Legislature, there will be no difficulty whatever in 

 passing such a bill.— Unser Fritz. 



Scentikg Quail. — The question has occurred to my 

 mind why the dog trails the running, hiding quail instead 

 of pointing. That, according to Herbert, the quail does 

 withhold his scent, voluntarily, or necessarily through 

 fright, is certain. But If the dog trails the bird it follows 

 that he smells something. Is it not the scent left by the 

 feet of the bird and which is different from that of the 

 body, else he would point as usual. I conclude, there- 

 fore, that there is a body scent and a feet scent, the latter 

 given out while the former is withheld, the two scents 

 differing in character. But I don't claim infallibility.— 

 N. D. Eltisg. 



A Deer's Tenacity.— Huntington, West Va., Dec. 22.— 

 The death of a deer caused by a bullet striking its born, 

 mentioned by "Richmond" in the Dec. 18 number of For- 

 est and Stream, reminds me of a case equally surpris- 

 ing—surprising that the deer of which I shall speak was 

 almost unharmed. Moses Freer, an old hunter, now dead, 

 who lived in Ohioville, N. Y., whose veracity I would not 

 question, said in my hearing that a deer was shot by an 

 acquaintance of his, and against a bone of one of his legs 

 a ball was flattened, the wound thoroughly healed and 

 the bone uninjured. — Elting. 



A Belated Woodcock.— Dec. 23.— While walking 

 to-day through a clump of small pines my dogs flushed a 

 large woodcock. This was about thirteen miles from 

 Boston, and the only way I can account for his being 

 there is the warmness of the weather during the last few 

 days.— J. H. B, 



