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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 9, 1893. 



IDAHO HUNTING RANG'ES. 



Mountain Home, Idaho, Aug. 2S.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream:_ In looking over a. copy of your journal, so very 

 interesting to the sportsman, I have been impressed vt^ith 

 the duty of calling attention to a few of the attractions 

 to the hunter of large game, offered by this section of 

 Idaho. Located at the base of the foothills of the Saw- 

 tooth range to the north and northeast, this place is most 

 favorably situated as an outfitting point from which the 

 hunter may have ready access to the mountains. Mountain 

 Home has among its inhabitants many mountaineers 

 whose lives, or many years of them, have been spent in 

 this country and who are familiar with the great and 

 interminable mountain ranges to the north which offer 

 such inducements to the hunter. In the fastnesses of 

 these rugged mountains may be found the black, brown, 

 silver-tip and sawtooth grizzly bear, deer, antelope, moun- 

 tain sheep, elk, mountain lion, cougar, lynx, wildcat, 

 wolf, and small game in abundance, such as ducks, geese, 

 grouse, pheasants, sage hens, etc., while the streams and 

 lakes abound in trout and other fish. 



Only a few days ago a resident killed three black bear 

 on Bennett Mountain, twenty-five miles distant. Deer are 

 in great abundance in the mountains, and as soon as snow 

 appears work down to the foothills for feed, and are then 

 plentiful within from fifteen to twenty-five miles. 



A party coming here with the object of hunting any of 

 the kind of game mentioned may obtain comfortable 

 hotel accommodations during their stay, and secure the 

 necessary supplies to outfit them. Pack horses, vehicles 

 and guides may be employed at reasonable rates, as these 

 people have yet to learn the art of extortion. 



The hunters who yearly visit this immediate locality 

 from the East are comparatively few. have their acquaint- 

 ances or friends who take charge of them upon their ar- 

 rival, and at the close of their vacations the visitors return 

 to their homes satisfied with what they have foimd and 

 seen and the treatment they have received. 



It is the simple purpose of this letter to call attention to 

 this locality, and the writer will cheerfully and promptly 

 reply to letters of inquuy which may be addressed to him, 

 and if requested will give the names of hunters and guides 

 who may be employed and the prices at which they will 

 agree to furnish their services and that of animals and 

 vehicles, and make arrangements so far as may be done 

 on behalf of correspondents, and will do it gratuitously, 

 as he knows that by bringing this locaUty to the attention 

 and knowledge of the people of the East, good to the 

 country is Ukely to grow out of it. E. 0. Cxjrrbt. 



BOSTON SHOOTING AND FISHING 

 REPORTS. 



Friday, Sept. 1, was the opening day on game bu-ds in 

 Maine. Reports are not very satisfactory thus far. Two 

 or three Boston hunting parties went into Mame Thursday 

 evemng m order to be on hand the first morning. Some 

 of the hunters were to remain over Labor Day, Monday 

 and consequently they have not been heard from. Mr' 

 Samuel Roberts, who is very fond of woodcock shooting" 

 started for the vicinity of Bridgton, where on former sea- 

 sons he has obtained some birds, rather to the surprise of 

 the natives. But this time he got no bkds, and, with his 

 friend, he is somewhat disgusted with bird shooting in 

 Maine. He says that every boy has his flocks of partridges 

 marked before the opening day, and early that day he 

 heard their guns. He saw no partridges, and is under the 

 impression that they are very scarce. In the vicinity of 

 Pans and Norway, in Oxford county, there are some birds 

 reported. But there the boys have the broods all located 

 and the outside gunner has "got to get up early in the 

 mornmg" to get ahead of the country boy. One boy in 

 Hebron, a graduate of the Edward Little High School in 

 Auburn, has six flocks of partridges located, and he has 

 already obtained several. Lewiston and Auburn gunners 

 were early out after the birds on the opening day, but re- 

 ports say that they have found onlv a few. Partridges 

 are reported more plenty than last year in the vicinity of 

 Dixfield ajid Weld, and at the head of the Portland & 

 Rumford Falls Railroad. 



A number of Boston gunners were to spend Labor Day 

 m the woods of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont 

 and it is possible that some good bags of birds are yet to 

 be heard from. In the neighborhood of Vernon, Vt. Mr. 

 J. 0, Frost, well known in the Boston flour trade,' says 

 that he has seen more partridge this year than for several 

 seasons. Last year, in riding over the same grounds, he 

 scarcely saw a single ruffed grouse, and no flocks at all 

 This year he has seen a number of flocks, with many 

 smgle biiNds. Several coveys of quail have also been seen, 

 and Mr. Frost thinks that they may be the offsprmg of 

 those he put out several winters ago. These birds disap- 

 peared at the time, but there are quail in the vicmi^ 

 now, where such a bird was rare previous to the stocking 

 which Mr. Frost, m the liberaUty and good-heartedness 

 for which he is noted, undertook. Some of the Chamber 

 of Commerce boys and also the newspaper boys, are pretty 

 snre of an mvitation to hunt in Mr. Frost's vicinitv this 

 season, 



The Inglewood Club's preserve in New Brunswick has 

 been well patronized this season thus far and now the 

 shooting season is about to begin. Members of the club 

 amd invited guests are getting ready for shooting trips. 

 Partridges are reported plenty on the club's preserve. A 

 good number of fish have been taken this season and 

 matters with the club look prosperous. A big sea sahnon 

 has been seen by one of the camp keepers just below the 

 lower dam in the Musquash River, the outlet of the club's 

 lakes. This fish was a monster and he was up the river 

 some five miles from the salt water. The club has pro- 

 vided a fehway past their lower dam and it is beheved 

 that the big salmon may have gone up into the club's 

 waters to spawn. This, if it is the reahty, is makint^ 

 progress even faster than the club's ofiicials had hoped" 

 although they had stocked the lakes and streams with 

 salmon fry two or three years ago. These fry they had 

 expected to return to the club's lakes and streams to 

 breed after maturity, but they have scai-cely expected a 

 run of sea sahnon so soon, though the waters were the 

 breedmg gi-ounds of these fish before the dams in the 

 river were constructed. 



In spite of the hai-d times, hunting and fishing parties 

 en route to the woods and waters of Maine, by special 

 Pullman cars, are very common this season. Money may 

 be tight, but the sportsmen seem to have enough to pay 

 for si^ecial palace cars. An official of the Maine Central 



Railroad in Boston the other day, says that there has been 

 a good deal of travel into Maine this year by special cars. 

 Anybody can have a special car by paying $45 for the 

 privilege, and eighteen regular fares. Then he can in- 

 vite seventeen of his friends to accompany him, if he 

 chooses, or he may occupy the car alone; it matters not 

 to the railroad company. The last special car into the 

 Maine wilds, from Bo&ton and vicinity, went in by way 

 of Hartland. 



City Editor W. D. Sullivan, of the Boston Globe, with 

 a friend, has been into the Maine woods on a hunting 

 and fishing trip. What their success was I have not yet 

 learned, but presume it to be good, since Mr. Sullivan is 

 almost always successful. Mr. M. W. Thairlwall, of Bos- 

 ton, has a very handsome and commodious camp on Boot 

 Pond, in Plymouth, and he delights in taking his friends 

 down there. A jolly party of fishermen left for that 

 camp on Saturday, composed of Mr. Cobb, of Brewster, 

 Cobb & Eastabrook; Mr. March, president of the Inglewood 

 Club, and Mr. Donnam, the weU-known Boston singer. 

 They are the guests of Mr. Thairlwall and they speak In 

 the highest terms of his entertainments. They wHl try 

 the bass and pickerel fishing ui Boot Pond, and the other 

 ponds in that vicinity. The camp is in fact in the midst 

 of the many Plymouth ponds, a town which is said to 

 have a pond for every day in the year. The party will 

 remain over to Wednesday. 



Mr. Cook, of John P. Squire & Co., and a brother-in- 

 law of Walter Hill, has been trying the codfishing again 

 in the neighborhood of the Isle of Shoals. It will be re- 

 membered by the readers of the Forest and Streajvi that 

 with Mr. Hill and their ladies they had a rather rough 

 codfishing trip to the same grounds early in the summer. 

 It was on that trip that Mr. Hill declared that he would 

 rather catch a 31bs. trout on a nice rod than to catch a 

 dozen 201bs. codfish. But Mr. Cook is becomiag an en- 

 thusiast in codfishing, and well he may be. With his son 

 and the skipper of the boat they took nearly l,0001bs. of 

 codfish off the Second Ledge the other day. Mr. Cook 

 tries to make IVIr. HjII understand that the fishing was 

 something magnificent. 



It has been a dull August at the Rangeleys, so far as fly- 

 fishing is concerned, but the region has been pretty well 

 patronized by tourists and summer boarders. Sportsmen 

 and frequenters of that region are expecting a season of 

 good fly-fishing in September. Mr. N. G. Manson, Jr., of 

 Bellows & Manson, expects to go to his camp early in Sep- 

 tember. He has a beautiful spot on Cherry Tree Point, at 

 the upper end of Richardson Lake. His friend Mr. Byn- 

 ner, of Cambridge, also in the iron trade, will doubtless 

 go with him, Mr. Manson has added a guide house to his 

 camps this summer. Oscar W. Cutting, of Andover, will 

 doubtless guide Mr. Manson, as usual. 



Mr. C. Z. Bassett, of Appleton & Bassett, will make his 

 usual gunning trip to his special spot in New Hampshu-e 

 about Sept. 25. A friend wiH doubtles, accompany liim, 

 and the friend's name would be mentioned here but from 

 the fact that the friend does not Uke to be advertised as 

 being away from an extensive practice. SPECiAii. 



Trajectory of the Remin^on .40. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your readers who love the rifle, as I do, may be glad to 

 know the trajectory of the Remington No. 3 match rifle, 

 .40-65-330. I had this rifle out in the Maine woods in 

 1891 and with it bagged a noble moose, whose antlers 

 now grace the dining-room of the New York Ath- 

 letic Club. Your report of trajectory trials gives the 

 flight of bullet from this rifle for 200yds. ; but the hunter 

 in the Maine woods needs to know the trajectory for a 

 longer distance than that. By order of the Ordnance 

 Department this rifle was tested at the Frankf ord Arsenal, 

 Philadelphia, Aug. 10 last, under the eye of Lieut.-Col. 1. 

 S. Farley, U. S. A., by Capt. Charles H. Clark, U, S. A. 

 The following are the figures obtained: 





Rise of Bullet, with 

 65.1grs. Powder, 



Rise of Bullet, with 



Distance from 



68.1grs. Powder. 



Firing Point. 



331.6grs. Lead. 



SSlgrs. Lead. 



lOOft. 



1.685ft. 



1.585ft. 



200ft. 



3.246ft. 



3.233ft. 



300ft. 



4.558ft. 



4.504ft. 



400ft. 



5.68l£t. 



5.589ft. 



500ft. 



6.596ft. 



6.508ft. 



600ft. 



r.324ft. 



7.134ft. 



rooft. 



7.760ft. 



7.656ft. 



800ft. 



7.888ft. 



7.703ft. 



900ft. 



7.874£t. 



7.609ft. 



1,000ft. 



7.356ft. 



7.n4ft. 



1,100ft. 



6.588ft. 



6.412ft. 



1,200ft. 



5.557ft. 



5.343ft. 



1,800ft. 



4.085ft. 



3.914ft. 



1,400ft. 



2.271ft. 



8.145ft. 



1,500ft. 



O.ft. 



O.ft. 



The initial velocity with the charge of 65.1grs. was 

 1,405ft. per second. Remaining velocity at 100yds. , 1,249ft. • 

 at 200yds,, 1,098ft,; at 300yds,, 1,000ft.; at 400yds., 929fc.- 

 at 500yds., 858ft. 



The initial velocify with 68.1grs. of powder was 1,440ft. 



H. 



The New York Woodcock Season. 



Cortland, N. Y,, Sept. 2.— I can indorse H. W. B.'s 

 opinion expressed in last week's Forest and Stream, as to 

 the size of woodcock kiUed in the early part of the New 

 York season. The birds are pretty small, weak, floppy 

 things, and don't afford half the sport they will a month 

 later. I think the same rule applies to ruffed grouse. 

 The young birds one gets up now are not fuU grown by 

 any means; at any rate a good share of them are not. It 

 does not take a shooter of tried and true experience to get 

 a few birds now, when their abiding place is found. But 

 a month later it will take a quick eye, a lot of experience 

 and a good shooting gun to bag the sfcifl'-winged grouse. 

 The two-thirds grown bird of August is a slow imitation 

 of the royal crested grouse of October. 



I am not expecting much sport yet awhile. From ad- 

 vices just at hand I should say the woodcock crop is light 

 hereabouts, and the supply of grouse just "fair to 

 middling," as the grain market reporter would say. 



M. C. H. 



A liucky Accident. 



For yeai-s and years I "rot" hunted; but during the 

 whole period I did not succeed in bagging one ruffed 

 grouse. I never attempted to "crawl up on" an old 

 drumming cock, but once I got a shot at one that was 

 sitting upon a log beside the path I was treading. But 

 vsdth thumping heart I saw him take wing and plimge 

 into the forest. Indeed my boyi^ fancy pictured the 



felicity of that moment when with my own eyes I might 

 see one of these thunderers tumble to the report of my 

 gun. 



For a particiilar reason I need not mentioii I ceased 

 shooting for several years, not expecting to take it up 

 again. But one day one of my old schoolmates came to 

 me and asked me to take a hunt for grouse, "For" said 

 he "I got a partridge the other day which old Uno treed. 

 We'll take the dog along and he may tree some more for us." 

 I consented. Well, we got among the — to us, noble birds 

 sure enough; but not one of them took to tree. At last, 

 from the pure impulse of chagrin, I poked my gun in 

 the direction one was flying and pulled trigger. The bu*d 

 fell. Great was my astonishment as well as delight. 

 From that time I took to shooting on wing, and with this 

 kind of game I was, through practice and a knowledge 

 of the bird's habits, a successful gtmner. With two wing- 

 shooters in several hunts we got 19 grouse, I scoring 17. 

 So pot-hunting lost its charm for me. N. D. E. 



A Schenectady Panther. 



A PRESS despatch from Schenectady, N. Y., dated Sep- 

 tember 3, announces the killing near that city of a full- 

 grown male panther weighing 1401b3. In these days of 

 fake stories about wild beasts, one regards the tales 

 printed by the daily newspapera with a good deal of sus- 

 picion, but there is nothing inherently improbable in the 

 main features of this story. The animal is said to have 

 been annoying the farmers of Glenville, N. Y,, by de- 

 stroying calves and sheep, and at last to have been killed 

 at Mohawk, a suburb of Schenectady on Sunday night. 

 It is supposed to have wandered down from the North 

 Woods. 



Liake Surprise in Texas. 



Office op County Clerk of Chatvibers County, Texas. 

 — Wallisville, Aug. 26.— Lake Surprise in the southern 

 part of this coimty, well known through your columns as 

 a resort for waterfowl, especially for canvasbacks, and 

 which has hitherto been reserved from sale by the State, 

 has now been patented to private parties. An earnest 

 endeavor will be made by the owners to make such a pre- 

 serve of it as vdll induce the clouds of canvasbacks feed- 

 ing here in former years to return. J. R. Wooten. 



"Forest and Stream" at the Fair. 



Around the Pavilion. 



Another big tarpon has been put on exhibition by the 

 Exposition authorities, but it weighs only 1961bs. and is 

 not "in it" with the Forest akd Stream fish. The 

 Forest and Stream tarpon would whip it with one hand 

 tied behind its back. The Wisconsin trout have been 

 moved out of the sun. Many of the large trout both of 

 Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have disappeared. Of the 

 small trout which Col. Gay had trained to cUmb a fish- 

 way in the Pennsylvania exhibit, many have climbed the 

 golden stair. The lake water is just a degree or so too 

 warm for the best ti-out results. 



Col. Gay's whiskers have grown three inches longer 

 since the opening of the Fair, and while seeking him the 

 other evening to talk this over with him, I met one who 

 informed me that Col. Gay was, on July 15, appointed on 

 the board of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, vice Mi-. 

 Welshons. Under Gov. Pattison's earlier administra- 

 tion Col. Gay was president of the board. Not long ago 

 Gov, Pattison was elected again, and last month, while 

 the Governor and staff were out visiting the State exhibit 

 at the fisheries, the Governor called Col. Gay up, compli- 

 mented him highly for the manner in which he had 

 represented the State at the Fair, also complimented him 

 upon his improved personal appearance since coming to 

 Chicago, and told him that he was again a fish commis- 

 sioner of the State of Pennsylvania. So far as the 

 anglers' pavilion contingent is concerned, this is a popu- 

 lar selection. 



Hard For The Fish. 



The long summer season is proving hard for the fish. 

 Under their new conditions many of them are distinctly 

 changing their colors. The bass in the pavilion are be- 

 coming decidedly " tucked up " in appearance, and seem 

 to be off feed. Cool weather may help them. 



Old Kentucky Reels. 



One of .the most valuable features of the Forest and 

 Stream exhibit is the case of old Kentucky reels kindly 

 lent by Dr. Jas. A. Henshall. There are among these 

 some valuable curiosities indeed, one reel being sixty-five 

 years old, to say nothing of the odd and rough-looking 

 specimens of reel making attempted in early days by vil- 

 lage blacksmiths, who had not the skill of the old Ken- 

 tucky watchmakers Uke Snider, the Meeks, Milam, etc. 

 It is astonishing how well and honestly these old reels 

 were made. Mechanically they were well nigh immortal. 

 Out of Dr. HenshaU's case of ancient ones you can find 

 several which even now twirl merrily as ever, and are 

 practical tools to-day. It is certainly established that a 

 reel can five as long as a man. 



In the case of Milam reels exhibited in the Pavilion, not 

 far from Dr. HenshaU's collection, there is another inter- 

 esting, if more modern collection of Kentucky reels, of 

 aU sizes, and up to $65 in value. Here also, by the way, 

 is an imperishable, of which the label says it "passed 

 through the Southern Hotel fire, and is as good as new." 



Other Reels. 



I may perhaps earlier have said something about the 

 case of reels shown by A, F. Meisselbach & Bro., of New- 

 ark, N. J., but these should not be missed. The goods, 

 consisting chiefly of large single-action reels, with a few 

 rod-holders, landing-nets, etc., are nicely arranged for 

 easy grasp of the eye. As interesting as any to the fresh- 

 water folk is the "Expert" reel No. 18, a black bass reel, 

 made with adjustable click and back sliding drag. The 

 unnecessary side metal is aU cut away in these reels. 



A. B. Shipley & Son's Exhibit. 

 When I was a boy and used to go fishing with my 

 father, we caught om* minnows in a dip net such as 

 my father said they formerly used back in old Virginia. 

 It had a flat bottom stretched tight by four bows, whose 

 heads were wedged tight in a head-block. To this block 



