138 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Feb. 16, 1895. 
Twelfth— One of the events of other regular shoots shall be a 
practice shoot on the same conditions as the contest shoot, except 
as to prizes and time of entry, but members who wish may enter 
in the shoot for only 25 birds, if they so desire. 
Thirteenth— A badge of suitable character shall be given to the 
member whose percentage for the year, estimated on his scores at 
the monthly contests, shall show the highest gain over his percent- 
age of the previous year, provided his shooting last year amounted 
in the aggregate to 250 birds, and that during the present year he 
shall shoot in at least five of the monthly contests. 
Fourteenth— A badge or medal shall be awarded to the member 
whose percentage in these contests during the year shall show the 
^highest of all who have entered and shot in at least sis monthly 
•contests for the medal. 
Fifteenth— If less than five contestants appear at the regular 
monthly contest, the captain may adjourn the contest one week; 
provided the lack of attendance be in consequence of weather 
unfit for holding the shoot with comfort or pleasure. 
Sixteenth— These rules shall go into effpct on the first day of 
February, and the standard of excellence of the members at the 
close of the year upon which they shall be rated for the^next 
year's division into classes, shall be the percentage of dead birds 
made in the first 50 bird events of all the regular meetings in 
which they entered during the year after these rules shall have 
gone into effect. CHOKE BORE,;, 
Inhospitable Weather at Utiea. 
Syracuse, ' N. Y., Feb. 8.— When Col. Courtney, of the Le- 
fever Arms Co., and myself left this city on the morning of 
Feb. 5, we both felt as if we were bound on a fool's errand. A 
blizzard, with the thermometer touching 8 below zero, is hardly 
the weather to enjoy a tournament in, -even if it is scheduled as 
the "midwinter tournament." "We were the only two persons 
on the train bound for the tournament. At Rome another 
shooter came sneaking on board as if he was ashamed of being 
seen with a gun in his hand in such weather; this was W. Ray- 
land, of the Rome Gun Club, which club by the way has a tour- 
nament on the 15th and 16th of this month. E. D. 
Fulford had things arranged capitally, having studied the com- 
fort of the shooters. In the first place there was the club house 
with a good fire in it, and in the next place, a long shed also 
with a good fire iu it, had been put up; under the shelter thus 
afforded the shooters stood and cracked away at the targets. 
Among those present were: V. D. Kenerson, of Worcester, 
Mass.; Ferd Van Dyke, of New York, the representative of the 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co.; the Browning Bros., of 
Ogden, Utah, the inventors of the Winchester gun; Sim 
'Glover, of Rochester, N. Y. ; W. R. Hobart, of New York, also 
a representative of the Winchester Company; H. R. Sweey, of 
Albany; M. M. Mayhew, John Fulford, E. D. Fulford, etc., of 
Utica. 
The shooting was very difficult, as there was almost a bliz- 
zard raging, with a strong northwest gale blowing directly 
across the traps and drifting the snow around everywhere, 
making it almost impossible to see anything. The shooters 
were nearly frozen and danced around the shed until it was 
their turn at the score. 
Sim Glover was in the best form and shooting well uiid«r the 
circumstances, but was closely followed by Fulford, Van Dyke, 
Browning Bros., Courtney and Mayhew. At 12.30 we ad- 
journed to the cottage for lunch. I had fully expected to meet 
George Mosher, of the Syracuse Arms Co., at this shoot, but 
heard with regret that he had been suddenly called to Florida 
on account of the death of his brother. 
The second day was marked by two notable features. One , 
was the temperature — 26 degrees below zero; the other was the 
arrival of Seth Clover, of Dunkirk, N. Y., who brought with 
him a sample of his trap and target, both of which he swears 
by. The shooting on this day was every bit as hard as on the 
first day, the intense cold being against good scores. 
The live bird and 3d day of the mid-winter shoot brought 
together a larger number or shooters than the two preceding 
days. The day was clear and a little warmer, about zero 
weather, but the accomodations were bad for the live bird 
shooters, the shooters nearly freezing.. The shed under which 
the shooters congregated was entirely too small, and open, and 
when a man went to the score he was shivering as if he had the 
ague. The new arrivals were Milt Lindsley, Corning and 
Evans, of Auburn; Smith, of Scranton; Pegnim, of Canajo- 
harie, and a number of local live bird shots. 
The first event of the day was a sweep of seven live birds 
for $5, birds included at 25 cents a piece. Sweny. of Albany, 
took first alone, killing all of his bird? quick and clean. E. D. 
Fulford, Johnson, Van Dyke, Evans, Hobart and Hunter 
divide second. Corning and Clover divide third. Brewer and 
Kenerson, fourth. The birds were fair, very few duffers and a 
few corkers. The birds were deceiving; three-fourths of them 
were swift incomers as there were no buildings in sight except 
the sheds and club house. Van Dyke, Fulford, Hunter and 
John=on really killed all their birds, those they lost falling dead 
out of bounds. The second event was the regular programme 
shoot. Twenty live birds, entrance $10, birds extra, and $5 for 
optional sweep of first fifteen birds, making $20 for the shoot, 
sweep and birds, ties divided 40, 30, 20, 10 in the"regular shoot, 
and five high guns in sweep. Hardie Richardson took first 
alone, killing all of his birds clean, but was not in the sweep. 
Fulford, Van Dyke and Pegnim each killed 19, tieing for sec- 
ond place. Fulford and Van Dyke killed every bird, but were 
unlucky, each one having one falling dead out of bounds. 
Every shooter admired the quick, clean shooting of Pegnim; he 
fell down on a very fast incoming twister. Corning and Sweny 
tied on IS for third money, Corning killing all of his birds, but 
losing two dead out of bounds; Kenerson, Hunter, Lindsley 
each killed 17, and divided fourth money. Kenerson was un- 
lucky, drawing very hard birds; he also had one fall about six 
feet in bounds with its wing broken; in gathering this bird he 
went on the wrong side, driving it out of bounds. Mayhew 
was the most unlucky shooter of the day, drawing mostly white 
birds, and when the trap was sprung it was almost impossible 
to tell whether there was a bird in the trap or not. His gun 
also was out of order and would not cock at times. In the 
optional sweep, first 15 birds, Fulford first, Van Dyke and 
Sweny second, Corning third, Hunter and Mayhew fourth. 
The third event was 7 live birds, $5, birds included, ties 
divided 40, 30, 20. 10, and was hotly contested. Van Dyke, 
Mayhew, E. D. Fulford, Scott, divide first; Corning, Glover, 
Sweney, Kilburn, A. S. Hunter, Evans, Lindsley, and John- 
son, divide second; Pegnim and Clover, third; W. A. Hunter 
and Jones, fourth. The fourth event was 5 birds. $5, birds in- 
cluded, 3 high guns. E. D. Fulford, Van Dyke, and Evan^ 
divided. 
FIRST DAY'S SCORES. 
No. 1, 20 targets, "unknown angles, $2.40: 
Van Dyke 11001 111 11 1001111111—16 
Kenerson 11110001111111000111—14 
Swenev 01 1 1101 1 3 11111011111 — 17 
Hobart 10111011111010111111—16 
Mayhew 11111111101111111011 -18 
Glover 11111111111110111001—17 
Gibson OOlO^lUOOlllOlOOUO— 11 
J M Browning 11011011001111111110—15 
M S Browning 01111110111110001111—15 
E D Fulford 11111110100111111101—16 
J W Fulford , 01101011000101000001— 8 
No. 2, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40. 
Kenerson 11011011001110111111—15 
Swenev 11111110011111110111—17 
Hobart. 11110110101101110010—13 
Mayhew 11111101111101010110—15 
Van Dyke 10111101111110110111—16 
Glover , 01101111111111101111—17 
GiBsott 10100001010011101101—10 
J M Browning .'.„». .'n , ,,0119' 110111111111110-16 
M S Browning 10110111110110101111—15 
E D Fulford 01111111111100111101—16 
J W Fulford 00110111001011110111—13 
No. 3, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
Kenerson 111011011 11011011010— 14 
Sweney 10011010111111101111—15 
Hobart 01010000110110011101—10 
Mayhew 11011111 111011101110—16 
Van Dyke 00011111110111101011—14 
Glover 11111111110110111111—17 
J M Browning 10011111111111111111—18 
M S Browning 11011111111111111111—19 
E D Fulford 11111111111111111110—19 
Gibson 11111110111111111101—18 
R° yland 11111100111101110110—15 
Courtney 01001110110011111111- 14 
No. 4, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40. 
Kenerson 10011110111001101110—13 
Sweney 0101 0111 1 1111 1101001— 14 
Hobart 01100101001110110110— 1 1 
Mayhew 11100111011100111011—14 
Van Dyke 10111011111111011110—16 
Glover 01110111110111010111— 15 
Rayland Ill 11110111111101010— 1 6 
Gibson 01111111110101001011—14 
E D Fulford 11101111101101011110—15 
J M Browning 00111011111111111101. .16 
M S Browning 10010100111111111111-15 
Courtney 011011101x1111111111—17 
J W Fulford 10111011010011110011—13 
No. 5, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
Kenerson 11110011111011101111—15 
Sweney 11101110011101111111—16 
Courtney 1 1110110110100111011—14 
Mayhew 10110110010100010011—10 
Van Dyke 11101111011101111011—16 
Glover 01111111101111111111—18 
J M Browning 1101 1111101111011111—17 
M S Browning 01101111011110001111—14 
E. D. Fulford 11110011111111011111—17 
Rayland - 11111110111101110101—16 
Gibson 11 101101110111011111— 16 
King 00011111110100011111—13 
No. 6, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: , 
Kenerson 001 11000011 01110111 1—12 
Sweney 11111101111011110011—16 
Courtney 01001001000011001110— 8 
E D Fulford 11101111011101101011—15 
Van Dyke 10110000111111111111—14 
Glover 11111111101011111111—18 
Rayland 11011101010000001111—11 
Gibson 010001 1111011 0111110—13 
J M Browning 11101111101101111111—17 
M S Browning 11101110111000110110—13 
No. 7, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
Kenerson 00111101110010010110—11 
S weney 11011 1001 101111111 11—16 
Courtney 11111010011111010110—14 
E D Fulford 10100111111111110111—16 
Van Dyke 11111110000111101111—15 
Glover Olllllllllllllllllll— 19 
J M Browning 10010111111110110111—15 
M S Browning 11010111101111111111—17 
Richardson 11111111111011111110—18 
Rayland lOOllllllOllOllOlOlO— 13 
No. 8, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40. 
Kenerson 1 0011101011001101101—12 
Sweney lOlllOUllllOOllllll— 16 
Courtney 11100111110110111011-15 
E D Fulford 11111011111111011011—17 
Van Dyke 11111111111101111111—19 
Glover 11111111111111111111—20 
Richardson 0011 11010111 01111011—14 
J M Browning 11011000101111111111-15 
M S Browning 11110111011100111111—16 
A D F .11111001101000000011—10 
SECOND DAY'S SCORES. 
No. 1, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning 01011111110011011001-13 
J M Browning OlllllllOOlOlllOllll -15 
Hobart 11101101011 110111111— 16 
Kenerson 11100101010011111111—14 
Van Dyke 11110011011100111101—14 
Glover 11111111011111111100—17 
E D Fulford 00111111111111111111—18 
Mayhew 01 1 11110101110101111—15 
Sweney 10110011011110101011—13 
Courtney Ill 11111111101001111— 17 
Gibson OOllllOllOtOlOOillll— 13 
No. 2, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning 01H10U 001101010001— 11 
J M Browning 00100100101111111111—13 
Hobart. 11101101101001011111—14 
Kenerson 01101010011000110101—10 
Van Dyke 11110111100100110111—14 
Glover 1 1011111101011111101—16 
E D jfulf ord 11000110111110110011—13 
Mayhew 10110111110110010001—12 
Sweney .00100111110110101111—13 
Courtney 11011111000101101100—12 
No. 3, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning. 11101111101000101100—12 
J M Browning 11101110111111111011—17 
Hobart 11101100011000000111—10 
Sweney 01101000011110110111—12 
Van Dyke 00111011 001011111111—14 
Glover 11101011100101101110—13 
E D. Fulford 01011111001101110111—14 
Mayhew 11101101101111111111—17 
Courtney 11001101110111100101— lg 
Gibson 1 00100 1 1101111100010—11 
Kenerson 101 0011011110011 1001—12 
J W Fulford ..10111111101111010111—16 
No. 4, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning OlillOUllOOlOlOlllI— 14 
J M Browning 01111111101111111111—18 
Kenersen 11010000100001100101— 8 
Sweney 11111101011101101011—15 
Van Dyke Ill 11101111111101111—18 
Glover 01110111111111110111—17 
E D Fulford 01101111011111011100—14 
Mayhew .11111110110111011101— 16 
Courtney 11111010110010111111—15 
J W Fultord 11011110101111111100—16 
No. 5, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2,40: 
M S Browning 1 1111011000010010110— 11 
J M Browning 10111011010011111110—14 
Kenerson 11011011011111000010—12 
Swenev 11100001011110001110—11 
Van Dyke 10111110111111111110—17 
Glover 01011111110010010111—13 
ED Fulford 11111111 111 01 01 10001— 15 
Mayhew • • 11011101011101111000—13 
Courtney O0000101 11 1100010111— 10 
J W Fulford 01101 101 111111101100—14 
*No. 6, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning 00110110111110101101—13 
J M Browning 10111111101111011111—17 
Kenerson 11 1 11100110111111111— 17 
Sweney , ■ , 101011011111011 10011-14 
Van Dyke lllOllllllllllOlllll— 18 
Glover 11110011101010111111—15 
E D Fulford llllOllllllllllOlOll— 17 
Mayhew 01000001100011101011— 9 
Courtney 01011 001010010111111—18 
Hobart , 001111 11100000100110—10 
Richardson 11010111111110110101—15 
J W Fulford 01111111111110110001—15 
No. 7. 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning .01111011111111110000—14 
J M Browning 11110011111111101000—14 
Mayhew 1 llOlOllOllOHOUlll— 18 
Sweney 1 1111111111101110001— 1 6 
Van Dyke 10110111111101110111—16 
Glover 001 11 1 llllllOlOOOlll- U 
E D Fulford lllOlllllllillllllOO— 17 
Kenerson 11111011111111111011—18 
Courtney 01111010111011011011— H 
Hobart .OOlllliOllOllOOlOOOL- 11 
Richardson lOlOlllillOlllOllill— 10 
Nellis llllOOllOlOlllOliOli— 14 
Fairchilds llOlillllOlllUOiiOi— 16 
Rayland 1001001 OOlOilOiOlllO— iO 
J W Fulford lOUlllllOlillllilll— 18 
No. 8, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40 ' 
M 8 Browning „ .lOlOlllllllllllOllll— 17 
J M Browning .lllllillllliOOllllll— jS 
Mayhew " llOlll Olllll 1 lllilOO— 16 
Sweney 11111011 00 lOliOllOlO— 18 
Van Dyke 01 11 lOllllOOlOl 10001 — IB 
Glover lllilOl lOlliillllOll- If 
E D Fulford ....II 11 IOUOlllillllill-18 
Kenerson .11111010110111110011-15 
Courtney , 11111100101011111000—13 
Richardson 11001111111101100011—14 
J W Fulford 11111011010111111110—16 
Rayland 00011110111100011001—11 
No. 9, 20 targets, nnknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning 11101111111110111101—17 
J M Browniug 11111101001011111111—16 
Mayhew .... 1111 1111111111111101-19 
Sweney 10011110110001011011— 12 
Van Dvke 011 1 0111101110111111—16 
Glover'; 11111111911101111111—18 
E D Fulford 11010111111111011111- -17 
Kenerson 1001111 1 11 1100011101— 14 
Courtney 11101111111101110011 — 16 
Fairchild 1 1 01 1 1 01 1 1001 01101 10—13 
Richardson 11011110111111111011—17 
J W Fulford 11110110101111111010—15 
No. 10, 20 targets, unknown angles, $2.40: 
M S Browning 10111111111111011110-17 
J M Browning 11101110111111011101—16 
Mavhe w 1 1101111111111100111— 1 7 
Richardson 10111101111111111110—17 
Van Dyke 10001111111110110011—14 
Glover. 11111110111111110111—18 
E D'Fulford 10111111011111111110—17 
Courtney 11111000111111111110—16 
THIRD DAY'S SCORES. 
No. 1, 20 live birds handicap rises, $10 entrance, birds extra, 
class shooting, four moneys: 
H Richardson, 39 1 12111112 2 2 2 2222122 1-20 
*E D Fulford, 32 12132111111221 2 3*12 2—19 
✓ ✓1 *V«-*+-'VSi\i/Vl //N.\/>/» 
*F Van Dyke, 30 2 2222122*2122223122 2-19 
^«-T ^N./" 11 ?S<\1 S \ I 
Pegnim, 27 1 11122221 111 1 1 02122 2-19 
1\\\\ T->M \»f«-/VN *f 
♦Corning. 28 1 1 * 1 1 1 2 2 2 * 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2-18 
Tl///l/»t^ N T /V<-\\. /-l-x- 
21 121 0 2221112222202 1-18 
*II R Sweny, 28 
*Hunter, 2!) 
V D Kenerson, 2lj 
M F Lindsley. 30.. 2 0 2 2 2 2 21*2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 1 2-17 
Seth Clover, 28 1 2 2 0 2 1 * 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 2 2-1G 
^/TtlNll/^/^/<-t^TtJ"^/ , 
.2 11 * 2 1 o 2 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2-17 
..1212220*11121210112 2-17 
*M M Mayhew., 2D. 
*Sim Glover, 32. 
♦Evane, 23 
2 0120122122212*2221 0-16 
1 2222 * 0*21220222122 2-16 
\ IN-sW^TlM - "* Tl^HiW,/ 
.1 012220 **1210200111 0—12 
♦Smith, 27 0 100*01021020002*21 2-10 
♦Entered in optional $5 sweep on the first 15 birds in this event. 
At close of loth round, the scores of those in the optionalsweep 
stood: Fullord 15, Van Dyke 14, Sweney 14, Corning la, Hunter 
and Mayhew 12, Glover 11, Evans 9, Smith 6. 
No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
Fulford 21122*1 6 1 222221 7 22121 5 
Johnson 222*212 6 0222222 6 
Cornin«* 1220*21 5 0122222 6 22*21 4 
Van Dyke 112*222 6 1222222 7 22112 5 
Bremer 0101102 4 
Evans 2021222 6 2211*22 6 11112 5 
Hobart 2102121 6 ' 
Glover 01*1121 5 1*21221 6 21022 4 
Clover 1220212 6 01*1222 5 
Kenerson 0*20122 4 
Sweny 1222222 7 2202222 6 22220 4 
AS Hunter *221122 6 1221201 6 
Pegnim 20*1211 5 21202*1 5 
Mavhew 223*221 6 1122122 7 2122* 4 
W A Hunter 0021210 4 
Scott 7 
Kilburn ^022222 6 
Lindsley 2220221 ii ow o 
Jones..' 0200121 4 _ 
Nos 2 and 3 were of bird sweeps. $5 entrance, Luvs included, 
class shooting, four moneys; No. 4 was 5 birds, $5, birds includ- 
ed, three moneys, three high guns. A. R. K. 
Shooting Pigeons in a Blizzard. 
On his return to New York after his match with Elliott on 
the Westminster Kennel Club grounds, ac Babylon, L. 1„ on 
Thursday, Feb. 7, George Work did not tarry m the cuy long. 
Notwithstanding the terrible snow storm and gale which was 
ragin^ around New York just after the sun had set, he crossi-.! 
over Co the Pennsylvania Railroad station and took the 7.50 P. 
M train for Philadelphia. He was booked to shoot a 100 bird 
race with R. A. Welch, of that city, the following day, Feb. % 
on the Riverton, N. J., Gun Club grounds. The bone of r once ii- 
tion was the Riverton Challenge Plate; in Monte Cixlot'fey 
would call it an objet d'art; "challenge plate," however, will 
do for America for the present. This trophy has b*vn won by 
Work twice; Welch on the other hand has sucoi.'slully do- 
fended his title to it no less than eight times in suw ssion. 
It was very fortunate, as it turned, oiit, fcliai. W irii m> 
