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Experts on Guns and Shootingf* 
"Experts on Guns and Shooting," by G. T. Teasdale-Buckell, is 
the title of a new work which is replete with valuable informa- 
tion to those who shoot or contemplate shooting. It treats of the 
evolution of shooting during tlie century, of shooting schools, 
the formation of guns, two eyes in shooting, sights and ribs to 
guns, style, stocks, try guns, choke bores and cylinders, pigeon 
shooting, gatne shooting, heat of gun barrels and the effects on 
them of various powders, cap-testing, patterns, etc. It can be ob- 
tained of the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
The following on try guns will give the reader an jdea of the 
author's thoroughness of treatment: 
When Mr. W. P. Jones, of Birmingham, first introduced the 
try gun for firing, we were very doubtful whether it would prove 
of real use or not. Later on we observed that every gunmaker 
almost was doing all he could to acquire tlie right to the use of 
one. Our faith in 'our own judgment was shaken when nearly all 
the gunmakers declared for the new tool, VA'e have never reverted 
to our old faith entirely, in spite of the fact that now the gun- 
makers are beginning to slacken in their love for their bantling. 
The fact is that a good many gunmakers overrated tlic use, as a 
measure, of the new instrtlment, and have thus become dis- 
gusted merely because they asked it to do too much. What was 
the mistake they made? They had been in the habit of asking a 
customer to put up an adjustable but non-firing gun at the eye 
of the measurer, and they judged the bend and cast-off necessary, 
and gradually altered the adjustment to meet what they saw. 
The firing gun could find this mechanical line no better than 
the sham adjustable gun. But what it could do w^ft to tell the 
gunmaker what happeiied between the alignment of the gun and 
the shot leaving the muzzle — that is, what muscular movements 
had influenced the direction of the gun. There is quite a lar^e 
variety of nervous _ muscular movements that may take place in 
this short space of time, anv one of which is enough to move 
the gun off the alignment. The most common of all is a sympa- 
thetic impulse between the trigger finger of the right hand and the 
holding or left hand. When this takes place down goes the gun, 
and a low shot is the result. 
This fault in its mildest phase only affects still or straightaway 
shots, for when there is any swing on the gun there is obviously- 
little chance of the gun moving in a contrary direction. This is 
only as much as to say that the muscles cannot riiake two op- 
posite movements at the same time. Wiiere can the trv shooting 
gun go wrong here? It discovers that at a stationary 'target the 
shooter is low. The cure is to straighten the stock, and the cross 
shots of the shooting schools are of such niechanical character — 
every shot exactly like the other — that to put up and shoot a cer- 
tain distance in front is a habit learned in a few shots. Swing does 
not enter into it, and there is in consequence no check on the 
mistake made by the try gun at the still target. 
I know that some gunmakers will not admit that it is a mistake 
to correct a muscular movement by means of bend of stock; but of 
thfem we would ask: What happens in game shooting, when there 
is any swing on, to a man whose gun is set to shoot a couple of 
feet or so over his game, and who has to rely upon the drop of 
his left arm to get his game into the killing circle of the shot? 
When there is much swing there is*obviousIy no involuntary drop 
of the barrels^ momentum prevents, whatever the muscles m'ay do. 
Here, then, instead of correcting a fault, the try gun has per- 
petuated it, and added to the difficulty by making the cure only- 
applicable to some kinds of shots and not to others. We are re- 
minded at this stage of the absurd fashion in vogue of having 
various bends for various shooting. Thus, a straight gun for 
pigeon shooting, a crooked (according to Capt. Money) one for 
clay birds, and perhaps another for game. We have no hesitation, 
all the same, in saying that a man who cannot shoot all sorts of 
shots with one bend in not properly fitted. 
Yet had the information given by the try gun in the above in- 
stance been properly used it would have been the making of the 
shooter.. There is nothing much easier to cure than this sympa- 
thetic movement between the right first finger and the left hand. 
The stock in trade necessary for it is merely a batch of cartridges 
tisreo parts of which have got dummy caps in and cannot be 
exploded. 
This is an improvement on the late Sir Henry Halford's methods 
of teaching a man what he is doing. Sir Henry loaded the gun for 
the pupil, and occasionally put in no cartridge when one was ex- 
pected, and at other times put in a cartridge when an empty gun 
was expected. By this means the pupil had not to be told, but 
he saw for himself, how he pulled down his weapon with the pull 
of the trigger, and he could discover for himself the reason of it. 
He al so saw that when he thought there was no cartridge in the 
gun he could snap it off in a manner to make bullseyes; for this 
very good reason he made them when he did not expect to fire. 
With ordinary, cartridges it requires some sort of an assistant 
to deceive the pupil. With dummy caps intermixed w-ith a lot of 
cartridges otlierwise exactly like the dummies there is no need 
for an assistant or a teacher, and it is wonderful what a great 
lot of fairly good shots will find themselves dropping the gun with 
pull of the trigger. Probably their gunmakers have already given 
them a compromise— that is, a gun that shoots when held still 
slightly over the mark, but not enough over to make them miss 
fast-crossing game altogether, in consequence of swing. Of 
course, this compromise results in shooting slightly under going- 
away game and slightly over crossing game; but that is not 
good shooting and does not effect clean work. 
It has been attempted to explain how a temporarv fault in the 
shooter may be established as a permanent defect by a too great 
rehance upon the try gun. Although this sympathy of the two 
hands with each other is about the most common fault in shooting, 
and accounts for the inability to hit the plate in the center of 
many a fairly good shot at game, it is bv no means the only defect 
that the try gun has been set to cure. Defects in eyesight are 
very common, and it is very strange that, in spite of Sir Ralph 
Payne Gallwey to the contrary, with whom we cannot agree on 
this occasion, it is not only possible but a frequent occurrence 
to find men shooting from the right shoulder who align the game, 
the foresight and the left eye, some entirely, others partially. 
Those who do it, it is true, as he says, cannot align the rib whh 
the left eye; it is mechanically impossible. What they do is to 
align the rib to the right eye, but they put the bead on the object 
between it and the left eye. This is even easier to a man who 
does not ahgn his rib at all, and there are many shooters who 
do not and whose guns are so straight that thev could not accom- 
plish the task if they would. The firing try gun is not superior 
here, because the throwing up of the gun at an object is an that 
a gunmaker desires to see in order to suggest a cure. The cure 
can be of different kinds: (1) a treatment of the eyes; (2) an 
amount of cast-off that shall bring the rib at the false breech op- 
posite to the left eye; (3) shooting from the left shoulder; (4) 
shutting the left eye. 
But there is a middle way between aiming -w'ith the right eve 
and aiming with the left. There are, for instance, gunners who 
w:th both eyes open are influenced by the left eve to pull the 
muzzle over toward the left, and vet in reality do not put the bead 
on to the spot with either eye, although they think that thev do 
so. Here, again, the try gun has tampered with the defect' and 
encouraged it to continue. Cast-off has been given to counter- 
act mechanically the opitcal defect. Soon the shooter gets used 
to the greater cast-off, and the bead once more finds itself some- 
where between the line of the two eyes, and as Mr, H Harriss 
says, a deformed gun is the result; no permanent object has been 
gamed. It is perfectly true that aiming is not all a question of 
Eight; the touch has a great deal to do with it, and if it were pos- 
sible to deceive the touch it might also be possible to cure errone- 
ous aiming by cast.off and cast-on. It is possible to do so for a 
short period, but the senses soon find out— perhaps not during 
measurement at the shooting school, but afterward, when the new 
gun has been built. Mr. Watts does not use a try gun Mr - 
Purdey believes tliat the responsibility of a try gun would involve 
the constant alteration of stocks to meet the daily changes in the 
men thernselves. Cures by deceiving the eyesight and the touch 
by radical changes cannot be more than temporary in their effects 
To all such as are troubled with defective vision we might without 
fear of laying down the law, sav that the gunmaker is' not the 
doctor wanted, and that the oculist and the optician are the first 
necessity. After their assistance a man will generally find himsell 
able to align a gun with the eye that he wishes to align it 
It is true that neither the one nor the other will be able to give 
a man both_ long and short sight with the aiming eye. As we get 
older our sight alters, and we can no longer see as perfectlv at 
three different distances as we used to do. For instance if we 
feel that the highest form of accurate shooting is only to' be at 
tamed in the way that Mr. Froome shoots a rifle— that is with both 
eyes open, with perfect definition of the rear and the fore sisht 
and the object with the right eye. the oculist can assist "if he i<: 
not asked to do too much. A rifle-like aim is an absolute cure for 
the intereference of the left eye, and nobody can say it is impos 
sible to take it quickly enough after seeing some of the crack shots 
put in double bullseyes to a single run of the deer at Bislev The 
proper thing to ask from the oculist is not that vou may see th'e' three 
distances with equal clearness with the aiming eye— that cannot b"e 
done with defective vision with anything less elabojate than the 
telescope-but a single eyeglass is generally enough to make 
deiinitipn good at the false breech and the foresight Then the 
!^oot«^ may l^^t ta % l^ft to pla^c fh^ alignm«ut qn the 
mark; especially safely if the left eye is unable to see the foresight; 
not so safely if it can see it, and still less safely if it can see it 
with exact definition. Mr, Gilbert's two-eyed sights might be use- 
ful to such eyes as these, but the octilist will probably succeed 
without them; if not, the india rubber thumb stall will be all 
that is required to prevent the left eye seeing the foresight. The 
unsuspected ability to align the sights with one eye and to place 
that alignment upon the mark with the other is common to every- 
body. Our view, then, is that no bad shooting consequent on de 
feet in eyesiglit should be attempted to be ^:ured by the measure, 
ments of the try gun. The only thing against the oculist's as- 
sistance is that by radical treatment of the eyes by means of 
glasses it will perhaps happen that the means of judging dis- 
tances of the game will be impaired. That is serious when it 
happens; we do not think there is any means of making one eye 
judge distance as well as two, and if there is a defect in one eye 
tlie^ same rule applies — only to a less extent. 
TheVe is a fallacy that aiming in the sense ot aligning the rib 
spoils time. It may be so when the shooter has to struggle witli 
his gun for the alignment, but not if the gun fits him. A gun is 
supposed to fit a man's shoulder. Really, it is much more im- 
portant that it should fit his face. One day, not .so very long ago, 
we were watching a most excellent gunmaker .shoot, and he ex- 
plained to us that at certain angles his gun always hit his Jacc 
unpleasantly. Could there be anything more condemnatory ol" the 
tit of that gun? We know of nothing, A few shots in rapid suc- 
cession at that particular angle would unnerve him for the rest of 
the day. 
There are nervous habits that are much more readily detected 
by the assistance of the try gun than without it. J^'rovided a man 
aims correctly always at the gunmaker's eye, he will probably do 
,so at the mark, and yet he will often miss all the same. Some 
nervous trick, possibly a tightening of the grip when pulling the 
trigger, interferes with the direction of the shot. The tightening 
of the grip always affects the. alignment. Perhaps the shot always 
goes into the same place to right, left, high or below the mark. 
The cure is improperly given in bend or cast-off if so, and although 
the try gun has found the mistake the adjustment of stock will 
not cure it permanently. The cure, if it is not to be of the 
nervous habit itself, ought to be in the lie of the rib — that is. the 
barrels should be set to shoot at a point where the rib does not 
,^im--thus untrue to alignment of the rib. This is the only possible 
way of deceiving the touch and the eye permanently, for both 
will accomodate themselves to cast and bend of stock in a very 
short time. The same cure is not so applicable to defects of 
vision, because there are limits to the -variation of the line of the 
rib as compared with the barrels. 
Still, a try gun is of use, for few men put up a gun in the same 
way when , they are not going to fire it at the gunmaker's eve as 
they do in actual shooting. But even the try gun is liable to the 
same error. The great thing seems to be to try a shooter at snap 
shots, whereas nine-tenths of the game he will afterward shoot at 
will not require snap shots. It is certain that a gun which does 
not suit, say at driving grouse, may do admirably" for such shots 
as rabbits give. Neglect of getting the head down, as usual, for 
alignment influences the direction, and it would do so equally if 
the shooter were unconscious of ever aligning at any time. Snap 
shots, such as those at rabbits crossing rides, arc comparatively 
easy, and we do not think that a shooter educated upon them, and 
with a gun built on lines indicated by such education, will ever be 
quite satisfied when the only difficulties to overcome are pace and 
allowance. To allow accurately you must align correctly, and this 
is so whetlier you align at empty space in front of your game, or 
whether, having aligned the game, you jerk or swing the gun in 
front. True alignment is in either case absolutely necessary, 
whereas in snap shooting you do not get the head down to align. 
We think that the greatest use of the try gun after all is that it 
can be set under direction of the shooter to his own bend, and 
with it thus adjusted he can at any time have practice at the 
sliooting schools and find out whether he is making the correct 
allowances. But in order to do this it is essential that he should 
have time to see his game, that the game should come at all 
sorts of paces, from extremeJy fast to slow, and that the attendant 
sliould be able to tell him exactly where he has placed every shot 
with respect to the game. 
The State Law re Pigfeon Shooting. 
The following, in the matter of pigeon shooting, as governed by 
the laws of the State of New York, is taken from Our Animal 
hricnds. the organ oi the S, P. C. A.: 
Pigeon Shooting Allowed fay Law. 
■'We cannot too strongly express our feeling on that subject, but 
when vve are asked to put a stop to pigeon shooting in the State o! 
New York and the adjactent State of New Jersey we 
arc compelled reluctantly to confess that we are abso- 
lutely powerless. The law permits pigeon shooting under certain 
restrictions. We have no power whatever to prohibit what the law 
c.vpressly allows. All that we can do is to endeavor to see that the 
humane restrictions which the law prescribes are strictly obeyed; 
and that we have done and are now doing, to the full extent ol our 
ability. It is desirable on all accounts that the facts should be 
known, and we shall now proceed to state the facts preci.'ielv as 
they are. The general law of the State of New York tor the 'pre- 
vention of cruelty to animals is this: 
" 'A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures, or cruelly beats, 
or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates, or kills any animal, 
whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to liimself or to an- 
other, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food, 
or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or 
drink, or causes, procures, or permits anv animal to be overdriven 
overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or uniustifiably injured 
maimed mutilated, or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food 
or drink, or who willfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in or 
in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any animal, or anv' act 
tending to produce such cruelty, is guilty of a misdemeanor,'" 
Beyond all question this law was intended to prohibit pit^eon 
shooting. Mr, Henry Bergh repeatedly interfered to preverit 
pigeon shoots on the ground that they were illegal. In 1874 how- 
ever, lie was sued for damages in the City Court for interfering 
with this sport, and the court held that the shooting of iiigpons 
tlirown from traps was an offense against the statute. Thus the 
general law against cruelty to animals was declared by a judicial 
decision to apply to pigeon shooting. It is only fair to give the 
reasons which were urged, and which are still urged, in opposition 
of tills decision. They were briefly these: (1) that pigeons are an 
article of human food; (2) that to become so they must be killed- 
(3) that killing by gunshot is no more cruel that the usual 
method; and (4) that unless slaughtering of other animals for 
human food is an offense against the law, the shooting of pigeons 
which are always sold for the same purpose, cannot be illegal It 
was argued, on the other side that many of the pigeons were not 
killed outright, but were wounded more or less severely and 
escaped to perish miserably afterward. The answer was that the 
gunners shot to kill, and that the suft'ering of wounded pigeons w^s 
in every case contrary to their intention, so that no criminal in- 
tent of cruelty could in any case be proved against them. 
The Act of 1875. 
. the meetmg of the Legislature of the State of New York 
m 18(0 an act was passed by which pigeon shooting was expressly 
excepted from the prohibitions of the general act; and all that 
could be done for the protection of the birds was to confine the 
.'■port to sportsmen s clubs or incorporated societies.' with a pr-o- 
vision that wounded birds should be immediately put out of their 
pa:ii. The act was in the following words: 
" 'None of the provisions of law heretofore enacted for the ofe- 
- yention of cruelty to animals within this State shall be construed 
to prohibit or interfere with the shooting by members of sports- 
inen s clubs or incorporated societies, of pigeons. Provided- thai 
in each case as soon as they can be captured or taken after beinc 
shot such pigeons, if living, shall be immediately killed.' 
Lack of Power Limits Responsibility. 
"From the terms of this curiously worded law, our readers will 
see the limitations within which the power of our societv is re- 
stricted m the protection of pigeons. Again and again we havr- 
successfully interfered to prevent pigeon shooting by persons who 
are not members of sportsmen's clubs or incorporated societies.'- 
and notwithstanding the vagueness of the proviso that wounded 
birds shall be killed as soon as they can be captured or taken • 
we have repeatedly mterefered when it w-as apparent that no 
proper care was taken to fulfill the manifest purpose of the law 
in that particular. There, however, our power ends and where 
there is no power there can be no responsibility. Any one of'our 
correspondents, however, earnestly or indignantly he may object 
to the sport of pigeon shooting, and however urgently he may in- 
sist that it should be stopped, has lust as much power to "stop 
It, and just as much responsibility ior its continuance, as the 
American Society for the Prevention- of Cruelty to Animkls Be- 
yond the. two painsiculars to -which we have referred, every in- 
dividual citlsfW h^. the s?.me ^pyr.et as. th,<; soxjietr, ^bich is j«s* 
no power at all: and bB is'-jlttat as respongible, or, in other -words, 
he iS not responsible. 
Appeal to Sportsmen^s Clubs. 
"What, then, can be done to mitigate whatever cruelty there may 
be connected with pigeon shooting? Again and again an effort 
has been innuc tc secure an amendment of the Jaw- livery effort 
of that kind has been abortive. We must, tlierelore. endeavor to 
do the best that is possible under the law as it now stands, and 
the best that ib possible can be most surely secured with the as- 
.sistance and co-operation of the incorporated clubs to whom alone 
the privilege of pigeon shooting is allowed by law. No opposition 
has ever been made by those clubs, and none can be expected from 
them, to the rigid restriction of the privilege of pigeon shooting 
lo their own organizations. the spirit of American law is 
utterly opposed to special prl^^ges of all kinds; and the only 
ground upon which the sportsmen's clubs can expect to retain the 
privilege which the law allows to them alone must be founded on 
sonic good reason, or the privilege itself will not stand. The only 
solid ground of reason on which it can be maintained is the 
reasonable belief, that mcorporated clubs of genuine sportsmen wJl 
see to It that the humane provision for the immediate killing -bf 
wounded birds shall be effectually observed, In some clubs it is 
observed. The grounds are surrounded by a high fence, be- 
yotid which it can rarely happen that a bird which is at all 
seriously -wounded can ever go; and retrievers are employeH to 
gather in any that may fall within the inclosure, so that they 
may be immediately dispatched if they are not already dead. To 
provide such safeguards against the infliction of needless suffering 
upon their innocent victims is the very least that any club of 
genuine sportsmen will desire to do, arid so much at least thev 
must expect to do, or they cannot hope to retain the special an'd 
exceptional privilege which they now enjoy under the law. We 
rqipeal, then, m their own interest, and also in the interest of 
humanity, to every sportsmen's club in the State of New York— 
.-iiid ;.!so 111 the State of New Jersey, where the law is prjcticaliy 
the ,s^aine— to justify the Legislature ts presuming that the proviso 
which the law itself imposes will be loyally and effcstiiallv ob- 
served. 
"And then we -vvish that sportsmen would give up pigeon shoot- 
ing. We must frankly say to them that wc should compel them 
to give It Up if we had the power to do so; also that we shall do 
our best endeavor to enforce the proviso with which the law ac- 
companies their special privilege; and then, again, we appeal to 
ihein to niake such arrangements as to obviate the necessity of 
mtetfeience. ' 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
Forester Gon Club. 
Nevyark, N. J---Tlie Forester Gun Club held another one of its 
big shoots on Christmas Day. The club of late has had a big 
successj and everybody seems pleased with the good programme 
which It gets up. The programme for Christmas was one event 
at live birds, and thirteen events at targets, thrown Sergeant 
system; eight events for sweepstakes and five events handicap 
tor pouUry (three turkeys and two chickens). The grounds have 
been put in condition for live-bird shooting, and we expect in the 
near future to have an aU-day shoot at same. The day was all 
that cou d be asked for, and the entire shoot was one without a 
balk. Ihe shoot .started at 9:30 A. M., sharp (live birds), and 
stopped when they could hardly see the small empires 
Iirst event, live birds, 25yds. rise, 50yds. boundary, birds cost 
40 cents a pair, three moneys; open to all. There were eleven 
entries. Shooting began at 9:30 and lasted until noon: 
Parker 01202201— ,5 
Sinnock 01212222—7 
Ferguson 21121212—8 
Meir 11121211—8 
Wm- Smith 12222022—7 
D Fleming 10120120—5 
Backus 00222210^.-.'^ 
— ' toster , , ..020'*2222— 5 
Hay es . . 22022222-7 Tigh 22002*02-4 
T J Fleming .12111*11-7 C Smith 20002110^ 
^ta'nton . . . .? ,'221**0*1—4 
Weller 11012021—6 
A R Strader... [20222 —4 
R II Strader 0)022 —3 
Handicap for turkeys and chickens, 10 targets each event- 
optional sweeps: vwn, 
Events: 12 3 4 
Hayes 8 7 8 6 
J Fleming. 
A Strader. . 
R Strader.. 
D Fleming. 
Tigh 
Terrell 7 10 
5 6 7 Events; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
9 Winans S.. 3 8 4 3 
7 Stanton 5 
7 C Smith 8 .. 9 
5 Murphy 7 
8 Foster [\ " r, 
5 Parker ' o 
n^r-f^t.^- - c--"-^ *?'■?o^^^*"/'^'^^' Sinnock; handicap in 
Wi^" ^'^f- ^n""°T'v'' 13, A, R. Strader (3) 13, C. Smidi (4) 12, 
\\inans (.:.) 10, Hayes (2) 12, K, Strader (3) 11, White' 
2) n%3r-U^flK,H ^' ^/n^J^"?^"^ W J- J- Fleming 
ligh (2) 6, bhool-oft, handicap cut in half: Sinnoek ai 10. A. 
R, Strader (1) 8, C. Smith (2) 6, Winans (2) 5. ^ 
q,vr'-Tf'" Al?- "' targets, same conditions; turkey won by ' •. 
.van r i^-,,'^''r^^^^^^^ s'l^' ^ miss-and-out and 
won: C, Smith (4) 8. Tigh (4) 8, Whitehead (3) 9, Weller (3) 7, 
Stanton (,5) 7, A, R, Strader (4) 6, T, T. Fiemino- (4) o n 
Fleming (3) 6, R. Strader (4) 5, Si'miV (0) S ferrell (4) ^. 
ll)-"lof'S^:ifVw&efd1oT*9:^''' same -conditions: C. irL^ 
uIUV^l ^vV".^"^*^ conditions as former event; won by White 
ht^H m^'^T' '^^''Tn*'iA"'T ^ith Ay^?^^ ^ ^"iss-'and-out:"^ White- 
head (i) 9. jVyres (4) 10, T, T, Fleming (2^ 8 Weller 7 Tio-i, 
(4) 7, Stanton (5) 5, Sinkock^O) 10, C^ Sr^iil^ 2)" 0 ID^^ Flem f g 
I' iu \ ^i''"^'"' Terrell (2) 7, Foster (6) 2, R. Stoder 
m 2 Shoot-off same as ormer: Whitehead (1) 10, Ayres (2) 8 
Event No. 12; chicken won by I, J. Fleminff after niialifiHncr 
w.ce w th AVhitehead and Stanton ; ^Aally woif in r^is1"-ind-out^ 
Ti^hlTi ^ S.AVhitehead (3) 8. Stanton (5) S.' 
11] S-ot-off: J,^ j: Fleming 
Event No, 13; chicken won by j. J. Fleming; 15 targets, same 
T v^T^U'^T'-r-'r^^ I- -T- Fleming (4) '7. Stanton (I) 9^ 
D hleming (4) (j, Tigh (5) 6, Murphy (3) 7. Shoot-off- T T 
Fleming (2) 7, Stanton (2) 7. D. Fleming (2) 7 Tieli (2) 4 Mi.rnhr 
<1 7, Shoot-off: J, J. Fleming (1) 10, ^Staiton (1) 8%.' FleiSnl 
" John J. Fleming. Sec'y, 
Armonfc Rod and Gun Club. 
m^n?hM^'^;.^5.^ ^^''- 2i--The annual turkey shooting tourna- 
ment held Dec, 22 was a pronounced success. The turkey prize 
given by the club was, as usual, the feature of the day 
Lvent No. t. was a very interesting one. A bet of Slo"was posted 
a fi^urkeT''" ' '^^''''^ ^^"^ captured^ also 
Among the competitors were L. Piatt, Thomas Ward, G Menzie 
and A, Bettie. Lunch was served at 2 o'clock, by the members r,^ 
the club Events 2. 4, 6. 8. 10 and 12 were turke pdze^ added 
by the club. The following scores were made: duaea 
' 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 1" 
7 ^#fS^*1f 1^ 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 
Z Flewelhng 914 § 15 7 12 8 13 9 12 10 1 
i> .i-^t" - S 13 10 14 8 15 S 14 10 1.3 9 14 
U Vr • '1^ S 12 7 12 7 12- 8 12 9 15 
V Men?' 13 10 7 11 7 U S 12 8 11 8 11 
r V\ ard s 12 §13 7 14 f. o if, 5 ?i 
I • 9 H 9 i2 8^3 I 9 i i J is^ 
K ""imby. 6 10 7 12 6 10 7 12 7 10 7 10 
K Flewelling .......g 9 7 10 7 9 6 10 6 10 6 " 
R Smf^^n 5 10 7 9 6 10 8 11 6 9 6 10 
g ? 5 8 6 7 6 8 6 . . 7 9 6 8 
H T \^ayne 5 7 4 6 6 9 7 „: 6 9 710 
H. T. Wayne, Sec'y. 
At St. Louis. 
Chas Spekcer and H. C. Griesedick shot a challenge 25-bird 
match tor the Mermod live-bird trophy at Dupont Park? Dec. 15 
Ihe day was favorable and the birds a mixed lot, with a few 
HllL 9o'„fTff''9::' VH' !"cceeded in getting away, -Griesedick 
billed 20 of the 2a shot at and- woa the match by 1 bird and wa-; 
a w "^''fS^ Spencer, The latter match will 
