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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AVQ. 11, 1893. 



Bergen vs. Passa/ic. 



The meiDViprs of the Possaic City Gun Club went from Passaic 

 to Cherry Hill, N. J., on July 80 to try conclusions with the Ber- 

 gen Gan Club in a contest between teams of ten menench. at25 

 target s per man. The l-iome boys had their shooting clothes on as 

 the following scores will show: 



Ber^jen Team. 



Van Riper ....... 0001110110110111110111101-17 



Tavlor 11111111 111 1111 1111101001-23 



rrierlniau 1101111011111110111111010-30 



Chaffee 1111111110011111100111111-31 



TRlaokledge 0011110101111111011101111—17 



Klees 0100110111011110000100111-14 



Post ]0]1111111]11010111111111_32 



>T8ey 1110011101111110101101101—18 



Blv 1110111011111111111111110—32 



KChaffee 1111111101100001111111011-19-1113 



Paasaic TeaTii . 



Coman _ Ill] 0011 110( 1100110101011—16 



Shaw 1111010111110010001111 lon-16 



Beatty. 1001101100101110111011101-16 



Gaston . . ^ 11001100010011O11O0101011— 13 



Hall 0111010000111111111011010-10 



Wise nillOOlllllinoOllllllll-21 



"Kevitt ; 1111010101110110001101010-15 



Le-mdne 11 Oil oo ' 01 01 1 11 1 1 1 ool i lo 1--17 



Jelleme 1100111111101011101011111— W 



Abbott 1110101011011001111111111— 19-l(i8 



The followme; sweepstakes were also shot. No?, 1 and 3 being at 

 at 10 targets per man, and Ko. 3 at 15 targets: 



P^st 



Wise 5 



Van Rip?r 7 



Abbett 7 



Hall 4 



Klees 7 



Shaw 6 



'^oeman 0 



Jjpnone — 7 



Jelleme fi 



Blacklefi^o 5 



1 S 3 1 



5 8 l:i Robin, ? 



5 7 9 ChMffee § j 13 



" 8 11 Friedman 8 



7 9 12 Boess 5 5 10 



9 11 Rling 9 .. 10 



6 13 Taylor 7 . 



3 10 Gaston 6 . 



7 Rower 7 



8 10 H p ad a 



8 9 Kevitt 'g 



8 IS Breatly 12 



Shooting at Pearl River. 



The 'Bxcelsi'ir Gun Club had a TPry ple.<isant: Time at its last 

 shoot, although tbn hot weather made a perceptible difference in 

 the attendance. There were twelve contests on the list, three of 

 these being at live birds. The =oores in these were as apnendpti- 

 N08. 1 and 3 be'ng at 10 birds, Bi entry, and No. 3 being a $1 misp- 

 and-out: 'n^o. 1 Nn. 2. No 3 



Keittle 0?22002101-6 0O?0813212— 7 0 ' ' 



Shortemeipr 0111110311-8 gl01o91022— 7 



Allen 0203211222- 8 3?02010000— 4 



J-^nes .1031111221-9 0010100201— 4 



Moore 2013112113-9 1131211111—10 1111120 



Richmond w.... 1101121112-9 1012131112— 9 2221111 



Simpson 1110201231-8 0o22022020 - 5 120 



Bafcer 0olollo312— 6 ]alo231111— 8 



Lindsley 20 



Wanda 8120 



In the tareet f vents tlie conditions in No. 1 were 10 targets, $1 

 entry; Nos. 2, .T Pnd 9. 15 targetp, $l..'iO entry; No. 4. 25 targets, $3.50 

 entry: Nos. 5. 6, 7 and 8, 20 targets, $2 entry : 



1 3 S /f o 6 7 f< 



Bogart 8 13 10 17 14 



Jones 7 11 10 .. 



Richmond 9 14 14 21 14 14 16 20 i2 



Moore 7 11 12 22 19 17 1 7 19 14 



Shortemeier 8 13 13 23 20 16 12 



Allen 6 9 9 11 .. .. 



Simpson 10 13 10 23 18 18 17 i7 13 



Baker 9 6 . 10 .. . U 



Kettle 5 19 16 16 4 8 



Lindsley 20 15 .. ., 



No. 4. 25 targets: 



Simpson 1111111111111011110111011--- 



Kettle lOlllllllUonOiOlOlllllll-19 



Lindsley 1111011101101101111011111-20 



Richmond 1111111101101101111111111—23 



Moore Ill 11111 1 1011111 1 Ollol 111-32 



Roga.rt 1110010011 11 00011111 1 1 101-17 



Shorty 1111101011111111111111110-22 



Baker 1 1 001 1111 11 1111101101 1010—19 



Allen OOllOaiOlinOOlUOOlOOlOOl— 1 1 



The Auburn Gun Club. 



AuBTJUKr, N. Y.. Aug. 4.— Enclosed please find scores of last three 

 ph^ots of the Auburn Gud Club, at 20 singles per man for club 

 medalp, Jxily 6; 



Olftss A 



Brinkerh' 11111111111111011111—19 Oarr 01110111000111011111— 14 



Whyte. . . .11111111001111111001—16 *Stewart..000111011100111100U— 11 

 Tuttle. ... 00111001111111111111-16 



Class B. 



Sinclair . .1 01111011100110100001—13 Brister .... 01 11 lOOliOl lOllOOOlOl — 9 

 ClasB C. 



Kerr 10110101011111111110-15 *Goodricbll0000011]0011111100-ll 



THpp 10100101001111001101-11 Barnes. . ..11001000010110111100- 10 



♦Hanriicapped 3yd3. 



July 30.— Class A : Wbyte 15. *Brinkerhoff 15. Tuttle 35, Carr 14, 

 Stewart 11. On the tie Whyte broke 9. and won. 



Class B: Nelles 9. Steele 8. Garrett 7, ^Sinclair 6. 



Class C: *Kerr 13. Goodrich 13, Barnes 9, White 8, Tripp 7. 

 Kerr won the tie with 5 out of 10 



* Hapdicapped 2yds. 

 J.ua. ■3.— Class A. 



Tuttle . . . .11011111111110110011-16 Carr 110100011 loOlOOllOlO- 9 



Stewart . . lOllOllOOllOOlOlllll— 13 



Class B. 



Church . . .01101011110110100010-11 Brister. . ..OlOOOOOlOOlOllOOIOll- 8 

 Class C. 



Goodrich. .11111111111011111110-18 Tripp OOOOlOOOOlllllllOOlO— 9 



White . . . 01011011101100110010-11 Hurlbut. .01001011001100010001— 8 

 *Kerr 110111011 10000010001-10 



* Handicapped 3yds. 



Shooting' at Jersey City. 



Below are 1 he frcores made at the monthly shoot of the En- 

 deavor Gun Club at Jersey City on Aug. 6, each man shooting at 

 35 bluerock targels, from 5 trap», lOyds. rise: 



C Mc Peek 1011011110101110010010111-16 



J Mehl OllOlllllODllOlOllO 1 11111-18 



E Collins 0101111110011111111111111-31 



Fry. J 0101100111010111000010011-13 



J McPeek Ill 10100110100 i 0(100001111-13 



Polhamus 0010 dOOOOlOUOlOOlOOOOlOO- 6 



A Lawrence 0000011010000000000000110— 5 



Straders 111010111010)001011111100-16 



C McPeek 0010101110111111111010111-18 



Creveling _ 1101010110101101101001011-15 



F Lawrence 0100111101001001110101111-15 



T McPeek 0100101010101110001111101—14 



Mehl 101 1011111101011111111110-30 



Collins 1111110110111111110101110—20 



Post 0001101 OOlOllOOOOOlOOllU—l 1 



Fry lOOOllOOlOlOllllOlUlllU— 17 



J Creveling lOllOlllllOOlOOlOlOniOllO-14 



Des-chre-shos-ka International. 



JUDGrNG from the very attractive list of prizes to be contested 

 for at the International tournament, on Des-chre-shos-ka Island 

 at the mouth of the Detroit River, Aug. 33 to 26 inclusive, this 

 should be one of the warmest affairs of the season. The first, 

 third and fourth days" will be devoted to shooting at bluerocks, 

 while on the second day live birds only will be used. The big 

 evmt on the ojjening day will be at SO bluerocks for the L. B. 

 Littlefield Michigan State championship medal and seven mer- 

 fchandise prizes; the medal can be won only by a I'esident of the 

 State, hut the merchandise prizes can be won by anyone who 

 shoots a stiff pace. There will also be three lO-target events, two 

 15 and two 20.target events, open to all comers. 



Oa the second day the main attraction will be the mternatiouai 

 match for the Gilman & Barnes medal, won last sear by L T. 

 Duryea, of Brooklyn. This will be open to the world at 25 live 

 birds per man. There will be three merchandise prizes also in 

 this event. Other events in order are at 5, 7, 3 pairs and 10 live 

 birds and a miss-aud-out. 



O a the third day the premier attraotioa will be the match for 

 teams of four men each from any regular organized gun club in 



America, 25 bluerocks per man. the flrst prize being $.50 in cash, 

 presented by Gilman & Barnes; second prize will be a set of four 

 gome pictures, value S?5. There will also be three 10-target, three 

 lo-target and three 20-target events open to all. 



On the fourth dav will occur t>-n match for the international 

 target cliampionslnp trophy, at 50 single bluerocks, open to the 

 world. In this there are eignt merchandise prizes beside the 

 ^rm'^^V, ^'^"^ °^ ^^"^ ^'^'i'i filled in with target event.«. 



The Parker handicap will be used in all target events excepting 

 those tor the medals and trophies. In these no handicap will he 

 used. 



Oneida County Sportsmen's Association. 



Utica, N. Y.. Aue.— The weekly shoot of the Oneida County 

 Sportsmen's Association drew out a fair number of members 

 arid some good scores resulted. Once more Elliott made a 

 cleixn score in the club contest. Harris and Knowlton tving for 

 the club badge m contest No. 2 on 24 breaks each, Knowlton win- 

 ning on the shoot off. The weather was fair with a westerlv wind. 

 Tlie conditions were25 kin8-hird targets per man, event No. 1 be- 

 ing for the club prizes and No. 2 for the badge. The scores- Event 

 No. 1: 



Knowlton 1111111111111101111111111—34 



l^ooj ]i 1111 1 11111 1111 0111 1101 111— 3.S 



K'' tties 1 1111001 11111 1111 01 Oil 111-21 



JSll'.ott 1111111111111111111111111-25 



^Vmitli 1111011111110111111011111-23 



Hunter 0011111111111110011111111—31 



f ren ch 1 1 0il Oil 0000011 1 1 11011101-15 



R 1 "Kes OIOIOIOOIOOOOOOUIOOIOOIO - 9 



Harris 1110111111111111011111111—23 



'^'^'zuev 1100100110110011011011110-15 



^) illiams 1011001101110011011110111-17 



Hicka 0110011111010101101111111-18 



Event No. 2: 



Booth 1111111101101111111111110-23 



Elliott ] milllOl 101 11 1] 1010111 1-31 



Hunter 1111111110111110110111110-21 



K" Hies 11 Oil 11011 100110000110 1 1 0—1 5 



Knowlton 1111111101111111imnnr-24 



HRrri s .11111 11 Hill OIH 111111111-24 



Hicks 0001000110011101100101101—13 



The Trap at Wilkes-Barre. 



WfLKES-BARRE, Pa., Aue-. 8.— Quite annmher of shooters met 

 on the grounds near the Wilkep-Barre Gun Factory on Saturday 

 last, and enjoyed themselves shooting at flving targets. Several 

 had never shot at inanimafps before, althoneh they were good 

 livp-bird shot.s. and some of the low scores will be improved in a 

 little time. We expect to have a practice shoot on each Saturday 

 afternoon, and give a two davs' tournament a* bluerocks and live 

 birds in a few week.«, as soon as weather will be cool enough to 

 give live birds a chance. All scores were mnde at bluerocks, 

 known angles. Ely. Park, E. H. K., Roth. Rhodes, and W. S. 

 .Jacobs used Wilkes-Barre e'uns. 



First match, 10 pineles: Tom Elv 10. E. Roth 9. W. K. Park 9, E. 

 H. Y. 8, W. -Tones 7, C Renowdpn 7, T. N. Jones 7. W. S. Ja/^obs 7, E. 

 A. Rhodes 6. C. Sfhomaker 4, J. Schooley 4, John James 3. J. Bar- 

 nettS, C. Schaffer3. 



Second match, 10 «i'-gle bluerocks: B. H. K. 9. T. Ely 8, R. 

 Rhodes 8, W. Jones 7. J. James 7, F. CoIp 7. M. Lewis 7. W. K. 

 Parke. E. Roth 6, J. Morgan 6. C. Schaffer 5. W. Jacobs 5, C 

 Schomaker 5, G. Attenger 5. n. Renowden 4. Collnm 4, Schoolev .3. 



Third ma'c'i, 10 sinerle bluerocks: E.,H. K. 9, W. K. Park 8, 

 Rhodes 8. W. Tones B. .1. James 4, W. Jacobs 4, Schooley 4, Atten- 

 ger 4, E. Roth 3, T. N. Joups 3, W. Bahre. 



The Towanda Gun Club. 



TowANDA, Pa., Aug. 0.— A few of the faithful turned out to our 

 regular monthly shoot for club badge, and demonstrated they 

 veere still able to hold their own in making a fine score of "goose 

 eggs" as any club in the country. Following are the scores, first 

 10 targets rapid firing system, last 15 from three unknown traps, 

 known angles: 



Montanye 1111101111 101001001111110—18 



Turner 11 0111 nno 101 OOOllim 0010-14 



Solder 1101111000 llfllOOUlllOllO-16 



Brown OlUlOUOl 110000011010000-13 



Dittrich 0001100110 010101010111111—14 



Hamaker OOC>0101110 OOlOlOOOOOlOlOO- -8 



W. F. Dittrich, Sec'y. 



Dunkerly vs. Ernest. 



A tivE bird match between Thos. Dunkerly, of the Eclipse Gun 

 Club, and John Ernest, of the Delaware Gun Club, for |50 a side, 

 took place on Aug. 3. on Lutz's farm, on the Notch road, at Pater- 

 ?on. N. J. Mr. Smith acted as referee, and a large number of 

 people witnessed the contest. It was at first agreed that the con- 

 testants should have 15 birds apiece, but when it became im- 

 possible for Ernest to beat his opponent the shooting stopped at 

 the twelfth bird. The official score is as follows: 

 Dunkerly 111111110101—10 Ernest 011010001011— 6 



The Cleveland Gun Club. 



Ci,EVELAND, 0„ Aug. 4.— The East End Gun Club held (heir 

 regular shoot this afternoon. The attendance waa very poor. J. 

 I. O. won first and Sweetmau second bidge. The following were 

 the scores made: 



S weetman 1110011111 11 11011 11001 UUl 1 11-25 



J L C 1100milil011111101]lllllllll-2G 



North lOllOllllllOOllOOOlOlOflOOlOOOO-14 



J C Beard llOlllUOlO 1110011010001110111-20 



Mo Motice Taken of Ajionymona OoraeBpoadeDta. 



W. A. D.— Letter tor you here. 

 W, M. Tracy.— We have a letter for you. 

 MoPAsG.— Please send your address to this office. 

 L W. F.— AVe are not advised as tolthe locality. You would do 

 well to write to the postmaster. 



G. V. G.— Your inquiry relates to a subject quite out of our line, 

 and of the rules of which we know nothing. 



Bluefish.— Write to Game Protector Robert Brown of Port 

 Richmond, Staten Island, to whom we have forwarded your 

 card. 



J. H. D.. Poughkeepsie.— We send you copies of Forest and 

 Stream of Sept. 18 and 2.3, 1890, which contain full and illustrated 

 description of the winanish. 



Rattler.— There is no certain antidote for snake bite known; 

 the subject has been discussed at length in previous volumes of 

 this journal, but without result. 



A. E. E., Lodi, 0.— We cannot name prairie chicken shooting 

 grounds in the locality mentioned, but President Jnhn G. Smith, 

 of the Iowa Association, in our issue of July 14, recommended 

 B'rt. Bancroft, Ledyard and Elmore, and vicinity, Iowa, as 

 affording good sport. 



Snake Killer.— We know of no acid used to put out where 

 snakes abound for the purpose of driving them away. Broken 

 glass scattered about their holes and in their haunts is sometimes 

 effectual to di-ive oft' rats and field mice, and if your snakes are in 

 dens a systematic and thorough treatment with broken glass 

 might eft'ect the purpose. 



I-IBlack B VS.S. St. Lawrence River.— Fresh liver will probably 

 be taken by black baes in the crates: they take it readily in 

 ponds. The bass will eat fiogs, toads, snakes, crayfish, helgra- 

 mitps and other icsect larvas; the yellow perch is a favorite food 

 of this fish and the smalltr sunflsh serve its appetite equally 

 well. 



H. G., Trenton, N. Y'.— In the town of Trenton we have several 

 &mall brooks which have been stocked souie three or four times 

 with trout from the State Hatchery. They were stocked by sub- 

 scription, a numbsr of men got money enough together to pa,y the 

 expressage on the fish and a min to go after Ihem. We got* per- 

 mission from the otvners of the land that the brooks ran through 

 to put themi in, and in each case it was granted. They were 

 stocked the last time four years ago, and three years ago bna of 

 the men, through whoseipropsrty one of the brooks runs, put sign- 

 boards on his stream and a small pond which he has made since 



it was stocked. A man was caught fishing in this brook and was 

 about to be arrested, and rather than to have any trouble he paid 

 $10 tp settle it up. Are streams which have been stocked from 

 State Hatchery private or are they public? Ans. Stocking a 

 stream does not in this State make it public. Under the trespass 

 laws the owner of the land may forbid fishing in the stream, even 

 preventing the contributors to the fund for stocking from fishing 

 tor the fish they paid for. 



N. T. R., Westerly, R. I,— Will you please let me know in your 

 next paper if the gray wolf and the timber wolf are the same? 

 and wiU you also tell me if wolves ro«med in the State of Maine 

 in large numbers in 1869. and if there are any there at the present 

 time? 1. The same. 3. There are believed to be no wolves in 

 Maine at the present time. 



G. P., Sr.. Albert, Can.— Please inform me the best time of year 

 to plant wild rice, and also the best kind of ground and how to put 

 if down. Ans. Sow in September, as soon as gathered. It should 

 be planted in water that has a muddy bottom, is not too cold, has 

 not too Strom? a current, and is not more than 8ft. deep. Before 

 sowing soak the seeds in water, so that they will sink at once 

 when cast into the water. 



M. W. P., Lakewood, N. \^— On Chatauqua Lake here there are 

 a few quite wide marshes and bays and ducks are very shy of 

 the shore, no one shooting many of the immense number that 

 stop here late in the fall. Now we do not have many days shoot- 

 ing, consequently would like to find some way to gnt them. 

 Where can I get directions for building a sink-bos? Sink-boxs 

 are unknown here. We do not wish to slaughter them in quan- 

 tities, but would like to be able to get a dozen in a dav's hunt; as 

 It, IS now one is lucky to get two or three ducks, though seeing 



„ propelled 



by hand. 



Cleremokt. South Dakota.— Have experiments been made test- 

 ing velocity of shot, showing the time requierd for a charge of 

 shot to go a distance of 50yds., gun to be loaded, say, 3drs. powder 

 and 1 or IJ^goz. shot, or any first-class nitro or black powder? If 

 such experiments have been made, will you siive them for both 

 40 and SO.vds.r Ans. Prof. Alfred.M. Mayer, of Stevens Instil ute, 

 once conducted an elaborate series of experiments to determine 

 the velocities of shot chargres. His report was published in full in 

 our issue of Ont. 28, 1880. The results were given in mean veloci- 

 ties for 30, 40 and .50yd8., i. e., "the average velocities of the flight 

 of shot over these distances, and not the velocities at 30. 40 and 

 SOvds. from the gun," as follows; 



I. 10 Colt gun, adrs. Curtis & Harvey powder. I140Z. shot. 



Size ot shot. Vel 30yds. Vel. lOvcis. VeL 50yds. 



No. 1 buck 1153 1067 



FF 1147 1133 



BB 1147 1126 ... : 



No. 3 , 1066 1015 928 



No. 6 1013 963 m 



^0.8... 995 8»0 775 



No. 10 908 803 716 



II. 10 Colt gun, 4dr8. Curtis & Harvey powder. PAqz. shot. 

 No. 1 buck 1067 1 018 



FF 1017 1009 967 



BB 1000 867 89T 



No. 3 9h9 911 872 



No-S m 883 8<W. 



JJo 8 920 874 776 



No. 10 848 756 689 



III. 13 Colt gun, 3i4drs. Curtis & Harvey powder, IJ^oz. shot. 

 No. 1 buck., , 



FP ■■■ 



BB 882 795 667 



No. 3 844 7S4 696 



No. 6 825 739 WO 



No. 8 816 749 607 



No. 10 796 680 610 



IV. 13 Colt gun. 4drs. Curtis & Harvey powder, li^oz shot. 



No. 8 817 722 671 



No. 10 748 657 m 



"The prettiest shot lever .saw was made by a woman," 

 said T. R. Lane, of Oshkosh, Wis., an enthusiastic sports- 

 man. "I was surveying in Coles con aty, 111., iu 1848, and 

 stopped for dinner at the cabin of a settler named Junken. 

 We sat in the shade by i,he cabin door while Mrs. Junketi 

 prepared dinner. A little tow-headed tot less than a year 

 old was creeping about the big yard. Suddenly we heard 

 the sharp wMr-r-r of a rattlesnake. Full 60yds. away a big 

 fellow was coiled, ready to strike, while within a yard of it 

 and creeping directly toward it as if charmed was the child. 

 To cry would cause the rattler to strike; to reach the child 

 in time to s tve it was impossible. The snake's head shot 

 forward, aud at the same Instant a sharp report ran.g out 

 from the cabin door and his snakeship was rolling headless 

 in the grass. We found Mrs. .Junken lying in a dead faint 

 across the stUl smoking rifle. She caught the rattler's head 

 at 60yds. on the fly."— 6"t. Lou-h Ghtbc-Dcniorriib. 



"Tommy, how did you get the back of your neck all sun- 

 burnt?" "Ptilliu' weeds in the garden." "But your hair is 

 all wet, my son." "That's persp'ratiou.'" "Your vest is on 

 wrong .side out, too." "Put It on that way a-purpose." 



AnH ItTiW Hnou if-. "hriT-^T-vaii T^nm v^-> tr Aar%tt i-V...*- l-.r..-« ^^i. 



(•ago Ti ih une. 



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