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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 26, 1903. 
Pilfering Cartridges, 
Having lost a good many hundred cartridges in this waj', I 
hsve come to the concltision that, the only plan is to risk being 
thought mean, keep your magazine locked, fill your bags yourself, 
put back in the evening what the day's shooting and your car- 
ttidge carrier has left you, and grin and bear the loss of the rest. 
Servants are very apt to fill the bags over weight, and leaye them 
in the gun room. And many men have their cartridges sent 
direct from the gun maker — the box is opened by the keeper and 
left for any one to help himself from. 
At a big shoot, if the keeper takes twenty cartridges a day, 
from five or six of the guests, they probably do not miss them, 
and he is a considerably richer man by the end of the season. 
There. is not much difficulty in disposing of them. I once asked 
about some cartridges in a country town; the gun maker said if 
I wovild take "motleys" he could sell me some at a very low 
figure. On my asking what they were he pulled a large box from 
under the counter, full of cartridges of all colors and makes. 
I refrained from making him add to his sins by telling a lie, 
so did not inquire where they came from. 
Grouse driving, I always put my bag on the top of the butt 
when the drive is over. T once left my spare bag, full, inside, and 
on returning with my loader from picking up the birds, found 
several of the dri\'ers resting around the btitt, my bag half 
empty; of course none of them knew anything abotit my hag, 
and I ran short before the end of the day. 
It is little use complaining to the host, it is only a worry to 
him; he cannot play the detective, and hide in the gun room 
cupboard. All he can do is to tell the keeper he must stop it; 
the keeper agrees, but the practice continues. Considering that 
keepers, beaters, valets, perhaps sometimes your fellow guests, 
rob you of cartridges, it is only wonderful you do not oftencr run 
short in a week's shooting. — Another Sufiferer, in Field (London). 
[That there are so many absent-minded beggars in Jingland, one 
of the oldest and most civilized countries, is a source of deep 
regret. The Field's correspondent, however, must be mistaken 
in referring to the amiable lapse as robbery. In this country 
it is never so designated. Tn this country at tournaments, similar 
happenings, under tournament circumstances, occur, but they can 
be construed in two ways, namely, that the taker desires to pay 
a modest compliment to the excellence of the ammunition and its 
owner's judgment by securing a few boxes as souvenirs, or that 
he sometimes, when preoccupied with mental divisions of the 
moneys, helps himself in a fit of abstraction to the ammunition 
of his fellows — all cartridges look so much alike! The astonish- 
ing feature concerning the English collectors of cartridges is that 
they take lots so small that they can be counted.] 
Tower Trap. 
PiNEHURST, N. C, Dec. 19. — ^The equipment of the Pinehurst, 
N. C, Gun Club, embraces a decidedly unique and interesting 
feature in the shape of a Tower trap. The traps are quite com- 
mon in Europe, but practically unknown in this country. The 
interest shown in this trap, however, is conclusive proof that the 
innovation is to be a perinanently popular one, which will soon 
be generally adopted by gun clubs throughout the country. 
In the top of the tower are t\vo expert inanimate target traps, 
one each at the right and left, as the shooter faces the traps, the 
attendant is^ protected by a heavy plank partition, which also 
hides the traps from view, and the traps are pulled from the rear, 
in the usual manner. 
Five birds may be thrown, right, left, unknown, overhead, and 
doubles. In all of these events, with the exception of the over- 
head birds, the shooter faces the tower at the usual distance. In 
the overhead shooting he stands back to the tower and directly 
underneath it. It is needless to say that the sport furnished is, 
to say the least, navel as compared with the usual trapshooting. 
The idea is to produce conditions such as those the sportsman 
experiences in wild water fowl, pigeon or other similar shooting, 
or in shooting birds which fly from trees, and the tower was of 
cotirse a natural consequence in Europe, where birds are driven 
to the waiting sportsmen. 
Known angles to the right ai^ leit, are not ditScult, and many 
have a "knack" for killing overhead birds; but unknown angles 
puzzle the experts, and doubles, two birds shooting off in oppo- 
site directions, and at the same time, call for a skill and quickness 
that few possess. But doubles are not impossible, and the shoot- 
ing is wonderfully fascinating because of its difficulty. 
Tak Heei. 
Wilmington Country Club. 
WiLMixGTON, Del., Dec. 15. — Appended are the scores of a shoot 
held at the Wilmington Country Club, Saturday, Dec. 12. A five- 
man team race was shot, Mr. Victor du Pont, Jr., being captain 
of the winning team, and Mr. Alexis I. du Pont captain of the 
second team. The same scores apply also to a two-man team raci;, 
the teams being as follows: 
Alexis I. du Pont and L. Z. Lawrence. 
L. J. Squier and J. G. Ewing. 
E. E. du Pont and Victor du Pont, 3d. 
L. D. Thomas and E. C. Ferriday. 
Victor du Pont, Jr., and O. Kemp. 
Targets: 15 15 20 Targets: 15 15 20 
V du Pont, Tr..l2 12 17—41 A I du Pont... 14 15 1&-^ 
L Z Lawrence. .15 15 18— 48 L T Squier 14 13 19—46 
E E du Pont... 10 11 16—37 L D Thomas... 13 12 11—36 
V du Pont, 3d.. 13 13 14—40 J G Ewing 9 10 15—34 
R C Ferriday... 13 10 16— 38— 204 O Kemp 8 9 12—29—193 
L Z. Lawrence. 
Ossining GanCIub, 
OssiNiNG, N. Y., Dec. 16. — Conscious of the great loss to the 
community and to the fraternity of sportsmen m general, it is 
with sincere regret I announce the death of James T. Blandford 
at the advanced age of eighty-three years. 
Mr. Blandford was a beloved member of this club. While not 
active as a. shooter owing to failing eyesight, he was, neverthe- 
less, ever advancing the welfare of the club and its members. 
Fi-ora the time of muzzleleodars and black powder to just a few 
years ago, he was foremost in this State as a live-bird shot, his 
greatest pleasure being trips afield with dog and gun. 
This club extends to its captain, Charles G. Blandford, the 
sympathy of his fellow members in his great loss, and desire 
that this be spread upon the m-inutes of this organization-. 
. J. CuRRy Barlow. 
SIDE LIGHTS OF TRADE. 
Mr. Le Roy Leach, of \\'ood Lake, Neb., on Nov. 19, at King's 
Mills, O., shot at and hit 1,1C9 shotgun shell heads thrown at a 
distance of 25 feet. On Nov. 29, at Cincinnati, he hit 1,601 blue- 
rock targets thrown at a distance of 30 feet. He used Peters .22 
short cartridges Iraded with King's Semi-Smotelcss powder and 
a magarinc rifle that wn.5 xio\ .olea;;iei^ th^ougliwt tlie entire 
The Marlin Firearms Co., New Haven, Conn,, writes us as 
follows: "Our Marlin, 1964 desk calendars, we think you will 
agree, surpasses those of previous years in artistic merit. Framed 
with a rich blue, relieved by white scrolls, is a fine looking sports- 
man, with gun, peering through the long grasses for game. In 
the distance is a nice bit of landscape, brightened by the rays of 
the sun. The colors are beautifully blended, the subject remark- 
ably fitting and attractive, and the framed effect unique. We will 
gladly mail this desk calendar to any of yoaij readers who will 
send stamp and pay postage." 
The Seaboard Air Line Railway, of which Mr. Charles B. Ryan, 
Portsmouth, Va., is general passenger agent, has issued an at- 
tractive calendar, which bears a picture, the central figures of 
which are an aged negro and negress, "imcle and mammy." She 
has taken his arm, and he is gallantly raising his hat in friendly 
greeting. The features of each express benignant welcome. It is 
entitled "Through the Heart of the South." 
Spratts Patent (America) Limited, Newark, N. J., is illustrated 
with themes of interest to fanciers of dogs, rabbits, poultry, 
cats. It suggests the kinds of foods for the pets, and the medi- 
cines with which to treat them when ill. 
The Laflin & Rand Powder Co., New York, have issued a 
neat folding calendar for 1904, beautifully illustrated. There are 
scenes pertaining to the riiie range, big game shooting, the pistol 
and the smooth bore. 
Dec. 8 W. B. Powell, of English, Ark., won the live-bird State 
championship from R. W. Larkin, at Stuttgart, Ark., killing 25 
live birds straight. He shot Winchester factory loaded shells. 
Mr. S. M. Van Allen, at Guttenberg, N. J., Dec. 9, killed 20 
live birds, making the only straight score. He used LT. M. C. 
factory loaded shells. 
There has been quite a bit of discussion, pro and con, in the 
New York sporting goods district, relative to live-bird shooting 
in the State of New Jersey. The expediency, not the ethics, was 
the subject of debate. So long as it is not illegal, any one has a 
right to organize a shoot in his own way, time and place. If 
live-bird shooting is to be stopped by legislative act, let it be 
so in its own good time. In the meantime, it is not well to 
admit indirectly, by concealment, that such shooting is yrcong. 
— • — 
Rifles and War. 
ARGUMENT on behalf of bill to enable the Government to 
increase its source of supply of military rifles by an appropria- 
tion for the purchase at the private armories of a quantity 
sufficient to warrant them in equipping a plant of tools for 
their manufacture, always ready to respond quickly to the call 
of the Government in emergencies or otherwise. 
The Governments of England, France and Germany have for 
many years fostered and encouraged the private manufacture of 
military arms and munitions of war in their respective countries 
by distributing among them a large proportion of the annual ap- 
propriations for the manufacture of service weapons, thus securing 
the resources of these private plants as an important auxiliary to 
the resources of the Government factories. Following the cus- 
tom of previous years, the British Government has recently made 
a contract with two of the private arms manufacturers in Birming- 
ham for a great nuinber of the new rifles lately adopted for the 
use of the British army; these arms being in addition to those 
to be made at the two large Government armories of Enfield and 
Sparbrook. Each arms factory, according to its capacity, will fur- 
nish its proportion of the total requirements, neither the Gov- 
ernmental nor the private establishments being unduly favored. 
The present poHcy is to maintain so far as possible, all the 
sources of supply of war munitions, instead of crippling the 
private manufacture as before, by concentrating the orders in time 
of peace in Government arsenals, and thus precluding expansion 
lo meet the demands of sudden emergency. 
This was our trouble during the late Spanish war. Early in 
the campaign, the Chief of Ordnance was at a loss to supply our 
Iroops with even a comparative small quantity of the Krag- 
Jorgensen magazine rifles. He accordingly endeavored to negoti- 
ate with one of the principal private armories in the country for 
a large quantity of those rifles, but found from twelve to fifteen 
months would be required in which to produce the tools and 
fixtures alone for the manufacture of the service weapon. Thus 
the overtures had to be abandoned, and the Government con- 
tinued to distribute the Springfield single-loader with black 
powder cartridges, with what criticism is yet fresh in the public 
n\ir d. 
The experience of our Government at the outbreak of the Civil 
War is another case in point. To meet the sudden and enormous 
demand for small arms, the arsenals of Europe were emptied of 
their antiquated and discarded weapons, and there was no gun 
so hopelessly condemned by expert opinion that it could not find a 
purchaser at an enormous price in the United States Government. 
We had the pleasure of selling some of our own discarded weapons 
to a foreign purchaser when the hollow sham of the Napoleonic 
Em.pire was exposed and France was found but partially armed 
in the presence of her enemy. 
When we need arms at all our need will be a serious one, and 
there will be no time to create arms factories. It is wise, there 
fore, to encourage them in time of peace to meet the emergency 
of war. The needs of our Civil War so stimulated the manufac- 
ture of arms, that this country led in that industry, and arms and 
ammunition were sold abroad by the million, adding correspond- 
ingly to the wealth of this country. Our resources for the manu- 
facture of arms were then superior to those of any otlier coun- 
Irjr, and might have continued _ so had a more liberal spirit 
toward arms manufacturers prevailed at Washington. Govern men t 
monopoly is the destruction of private enterprise, as has been 
sho\\'n in this case. 
The great disadvantage in which our Government was placed 
during the late Spanish war in procuring magazine rifles and 
ammunition, might have proven very serious had the war been 
prolonged; and the lessons made plain to them at the close, 
brought about wise measures increasing the capacity of the Gov- 
ernment factories, now in process of development. 
Ordnance officials, when asking for these increased appropria- 
tions have reported that the capacity of the two Government 
plants wheti finally installed, would together produce 650 of the 
new- service rifles per day o! eight hours, and be sufficient to 
meet any future emergenc3'. 
But it must be considered that it will take two or more years 
afly appreciably oyt|>VSt ^^^^ tPRl^nfQW «it|ief (afiifOfy, 
and several years before our whole army could at that rate be 
equipped. This would be making no provision whatever for the 
equipment of the thousands of volunteers that might be enlisted 
should war break out at any time, and all of them clamorous for 
the service magazine arm, which they have a right to demand, 
knowing that in this age they will be arrayed against armies 
•equipped with modern magazine rifles and not single loaders. 
Besides, who can predict when the country will again be con- 
fronted with the emergency of war, and against what Powers we 
may have to contend? The situation might be such that we would 
be prevented from obtaining supplies from Europe, and if ever 
we could do so, the rifles would not be of same caliber as our 
own, which would mean that confusion would result in the dis- 
tribution to our troops of cartridges of different caliber. A re- 
armament having been decided upon, it should be completed with- 
out delay. The old and new arms cannot be used together, for the 
same reason that the cartridges are of different dimensions and 
strength, and what would fit the new rifle cannot be used in the 
Krag-Jorgensen rifle. It would seem to be the part of wisdom 
for our Government to change its present policy oi confining the 
manufacture of small arms to the Government arsenals, and adopt 
the method in vogue abroad of interesting the private factories, at 
least to an extent that will render them immediately available 
when wanted; and without which provision they cannot under 
any circumstances, no matter how urgent, respond to the call of 
the Government without wasting at least one year of valuable 
time in the manufacture and preparation of the tools and fixtures 
necessary to the manufacture of any new rifle. 
New York Corps. 
Seventy-one members of the New York Corps shot at the 
Zettler gallery Dec. 18. R. Gute was high on the ring target. 
C. Brinckama was first on the bullseye target. The next shoot will 
be held on Jan. S. 
Ten-shot scores, two to count: R. Gute, 244, 241. ; Geo. Ludwig, 
241, 240: J. Facklamm, 233. 23S; B. Zettler. 238, 233; O. Schwaner- 
mann. 227, 243; J. N. F. Siebs. 237. 230; F. Fac^mnre. 2.31. 235: J. 
H Hainhorst, 229, 235; H. Haase. 234. 232; J. H, Mever, 229, 225; 
H. D. Meyer. 222, 228; H. Rottffer. 224, 229; G. Thomas. 228, 228; 
J. C. Bonn, 225. 232; A. W. Lemcke, 221, 228: Geo. Offcrmann, 
226, 223; C. Schmetz, 213. 233; H. BecVmann, 225. 219: C. Brinck- | 
ama, .225. 220; H. C. Hainhorst, 222, 223; J. G. Tholke, 221, 216; ' 
W. Schulz, 220, 21s ; H. Gobber, 209, 225; H. Heinecke, 226', 218: 
L. C. Hagenah, 218. 224; A. Evers, 222. 214; C. Maun. 213, 225; 
H. Nordbruch. 213. 225; M. J. Then, 215, 218; P. PTiedelbcrger, 224. 
214; H. Decker, 222, 209; H. R. Conlan. 216, 216; W. C. L. Bever- ' 
.Sten, 210, 221; PL Koster, 208. 219; Herman Koster, 209, 219; 
F. Feldhusen, 217, 209; W. Dahl, 221, 206; H. Meyn, 206, 218; ■ 
H. D. Michaelsen, 204, 220; C. Roffmann, 216. 210;" F. Schultz, 
218. 207; H. Ouemen, 208, 215: H. Winfer, 202, 219; H. Henning. 
204, 217; A. Giebelhaus, 201, 215; J. C. Kruse. 202, 215; J, Jantzen, 
211, 203; C. Konig. 207. 207; R. Ohm.s. 216, 207; J.' May, 208, 203; 
E. F. Lankenau, 194. 211; H. Konig, 213, 192; J. Gobber, 1.54, 198; 
L. L. Goldstein, 197, 194; W. Schaefer, 207, 193; J. Paradies, 211, 
199; H. Oflermann, 202, 195; W. H. Kuhlken. 194! 174; G. Junge! 
179, 199; D. von Glahn, 1,82, 181; D. Dade. 199, 204; Adolf' Beck- 
mann, 202, 195; PI. Hovenberger, 185, 170; Gus Tlagcnau, 177. 184; 
N. Jantzen, 182, 162; D. Fecken, 146; 201; J, H. Grote. 166, 159; 
D. von der Lieth. 199. 197: Max von Dionglo. 189, 207 1 J. H 
Dcscher, 199, 228. 
Bullseye target, 4in. carton, best center shot, by measurement, 
degrees: C. Briiickama 251^, L. C. Hagenah 30, R. Gute 43, H, 
C. Hainhorst 47, J. H. Hainhorst 50V2,. A. W. Lemcke 52, Wm. Schulz 
52, H. Haase 56. P. Hiedelberger 62%, F. Schulz 68, H. Bqrck-mann 70, 
R Ohms 73, J. H. Doscher 83, J. N. F. Siebs J. C Bonn 851^. 
H. Koster 87%, W. H. Kuhlken 911/2, C. Konig C. Schmetz 
97V2. G. Thomas 1031^, J. H. Meyer 105, J. Paradies 118. 
New York Central Corps. 
The New York Central Corps held its third shoot, winter series, 
at Zettler's, Dec. 16. There were twenty-three members present. 
■R. Gute made the high score on the ring target: H. D. Muller 
was second. On the liullseye target B. Eusner was first and won 
the Muller prize. 
Ten-shot scores, two to count, 25-ring target, distance 75ft.: 
R Gute, 243, 239; H. D. Muller 242, 233; J. N. F. Siebs, 337, 2.36; 
D. Scharninghaus, 236, 230; F. Rolfes. 230, 238; F. Schroeder, 229, 
230; B. Eusner 2-34, 2,27; W. J. Daniel, 2.34, 229; C. Gerken, 226, 
224; Geo. Viemeister. 231, 228; W. Wcssel, 231, 210; F. Brodt, 221. 
229; A. Ritterhoff 222, 202; F. Engelking, 214, 214; Aug. Rohde, 
225, 203; PI. Schrader. 216, 206; H. A. Ficke, Jr., 193, 206; F. 
Jaegers, 201, 211; J. Kack, 184, 194; A. Ihlenberg, 180, 195; G. 
Dettloff, 173, 169; J. Winters, 197, 157. 
Bullseye target, 4in, carton, the best center shot to count, meas- 
urement, degrees: L-. Eusner 39V2, H, Schrader 40i^, F. Rolfes 
4114, H. D. Muller .551/2, W. Wessel 63, Geo. Viemeister 83i^. 
Gerken 78i4, W. J. Daniel 88, F. Schroeder 91. Aug, Rohde 93, 
R. Gute 95, J. Winters 99. 
Zettler Rifle Clob. 
Thirteen members were present on Dec. 15 and took part in the 
Zettler Rifle Corps' contest for high scores and club honors. Geo. 
Schlicht was first for the best 100 shots, with a total of 2433. E. 
Van Zandt was second with 2431. Louis C. Buss made the best 
50-shot score, his total being 1225. 
Ten-shot scores, 25-ring target, distance 75ft, ; Geo. Schlicht 
(100 shots) 2433, E. \'an Zandt 2431, B. Zettler 2387, H. Fenwirth 
2342. 
Fifty shots : 
Louis C. Buss 1225, R. Gute 1213, A. Kronsberg 1212, C. G. Zet- 
tler 1210, C. G. Zettler, Sr. ,1199, H. Plolges 1197, W. A. Hicks 1183, 
Geo. J. Bernius 1170, T. H. Keller, Sr., 1151. 
New York City Corps, 
The New York City Corps held its second gallery shoot .at 
'.L-ttler's, Dec. 17. Seventeen niembers took part. 
Ten-shot scores, two to count: A. Kronsberg 241, 245; O, 
• chwanermann 237, 237; R. Busse, 233, 236; J. Facklamm, 225. 242; 
•:. Wagner, 234, 239; R. Bendler, 232, 228; B. Eusner, 223, 284; 
\. Frank, 219, 222; J, Keller, 219, 214; C. Schmidt. 218, 218; H. 
Kadloff, 210, 218; R. Schwanermann, 216, 211; A. Wiltz. 199, 214; 
H. Vogel, 202, 203; C. Metz, 189, 201^ E. Sonner, 155, 174; W. 
Heil, 132, 160, 
PUBUSHERS' DEPARTMENT, 
The beautiful calendar of the Horton Manufacturing Co., of i 
•ristol, Conn., covering the year 1904, has just been issued. It 
iio"'s a birch bark canoe on the shore of a lake, and a girl, in [ 
'juting dress and w-ith a Bristol steel fishing rod in her hand, 
i-olding- up and admirino 3 large bass, just from the water. The ; 
color and' the feeling of the picture are thoroughly genuine, and 
for beauty and artistic merit this cs(leiidar mtia^ stai^4 higli amoj^g \ 
