Aug. s, 190S.I 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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U. S. Government Ammunition Test. 
Accuracy test of Krag-Jorgensen .30-Caliber Cartridges held at Springfield Armory by order of 
the Ordnance Department, United States Army. 
TESTED — Ammunition of all the American Manufacturers, 
CONDITIONS — 10 and 20 shot targets, muzzle rest. 
10 and 20 shot targets, fixed rest. 
DISTANCE} — 1000 yards. 
OFF^CI^L^^rTePORTs U. S. Cartridges excelled all others 
MANUFACTURED BY 
UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE CO.. 
LOWELL, MASS., U. S. A. 
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WESTERN TRAP. 
Cincinnati Gun Club. 
The attendance on July 29 was enough' to keep the traps busy 
until dark. The weather was a little warm. A strong, cool 
breeze interfered somewhat with the flight of the targets. 
Twenty-four scores were recorded in the Schuler prize contest, 
five of the shooters making 50. In actual breaks, Sycamore was 
at the head with 46. A special shoot will be held on Labor 
Day, and a good programme will be provided. A nurnber of 
practice events and three team matches were shot during the 
afternoon. 
Schuler prize 
shoot, 50 
targets 
Hdep. T’t’l.- 
Gambell 
6 
60 
Maynard 
Bullerdick 
6 
12 
50 
50 
E Altheer 
13 
50 
Andrews 
23 
50 
Keplinger 
9 
49 
Sycamore 
2 
48 
Ahlers 
47 
Linn 
10 
47 
Rybolt 
8 
40 
Herman 
9 
46 
Jack 
14 
46 
Team match, 50 targets: 
Herman 19 17 — 36 
Le Compte 21 22—“ 43 
Sycaniore 21 21 — 42 
Totals 61 60—121 
Team match, 25 targets: 
Tuttle 19 
Meyers 14 — 33 
Team match, 50 targets: 
Cambell 22 18-^0 
Le Compte 19 22 — 41 
Risling 
Hdep. T’t’l. 
24 46 
Colonel 
44 46 
Captain 
12 45 
Hesser 
1 44 
Lytle 
13 44 
Meyers 
17 44 
F. Altheer 
3 42 
Tuttle 
7 42 
Le Compte 
40 
Roll 
4 38 
Barker 
37 
Barker 
21 21— 42 
Gambell 
17 21—38 
Hesser 
21 21— 42 
Totals 
69 63—122 
Keplinger 
19 
Lytle 
10—29 
Barker 
21 24^5 
Hesser 
21 22—43 
Totals 41 40—81 Totals 42 46—88 
Garfield Gun Club. 
The appended scores were made on our grounds to-day on the 
occasion of the first shoot of the third series. 
In the club trophy shoot Hicks won in Class A on 24; George 
in Class B on 21; Ostendorp in Class C on 19. 
In Hunter Arms trophy shoot, 10 singles and 5 pairs, Eaton, 
Kampp and Goetter tied for Class A on 18; George won in Class 
B on 16; Ditt won in Class C on 15 . 
In the Dupont cup shoot on 20 single targets, Kampp won in 
Class A on 19; George in Class B on 18; Ostendorp in Class 
C on 14. 
The day was a fine one for target shooting, cool and calm and 
attendance was fairly good, considering that it rained heavily 
until almost 2 o’clock. 
Events : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
Targets : 20 20 25 10 10 10 10 
George 15 18 21 8 9 6 8 
Horns 12 11 19 5 7 . . . . 
Thomas 12 18 20 7 8 6 5 
Dr Meek .. .13 18 21 9 9 6 9 
Ayers 7 512 5 6.. .. 
'Wakeman 11 16 5 6.... 
McDonald ...14 18 23 9 10 7.. 
Morris 15 13 14 7 8 . . . . 
Eaton 18 15 19 . . 8 7 9 
Hicks 17 17 24 . . 8 9 . . 
A Smedes ...14 17 18 .. 7 3 8 
No. 1, Hunter Arms trophy. 
Club trophy. No. 6, 5 pairs. 
Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. 
Events : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
Targets : 20 20 25 10 10 10 10 
T Smedes ...13 16 18 .. 5 6 8 
Kampp 18 19 18 . . 8 . . . . 
Ditt 15 6 7 .. 1 9 .. 
Dr Reynolds. 12 16 19 .. 10 10 7 
C Emfeldt ...16 12 19 .. .. .. .. 
Ostendorp ...14 14 19 .. .. 5 8 
Goetter 18 15 19 .. .. 5 .. 
Herr 14 8 10 ... . 6 6 
Howe 10 14 .. .. 
Dorman 8 . . . . 
No. 2, Dupont trophy. No. 3, 
Ohio Notes, 
At the Greenville Gun Club Eidson won in Class A with 41 
out of 50. Class B. medal was won by Limbert with 38 out of 50. 
The Welfare Gun Club, Dayton, O., will shoot every Saturday 
(except Aug. 5 and 12) until the quail season opens. 
Supt. Ed. Clark, of the Dayton Gun Club, reports the pros- 
pects for quail this fall good. The birds liberated by the Dayton 
Pointer Club all seem to have done well. 
The Cleveland Gun Club programme for the annual Labor Day 
tournament will be ready about Aug. 10. 
The Superior Fishing Club gave a shoot on July 26, which 
was attended by o\’er 100 members and guests. The club owns a 
piece of land on the banks of the Little Miami River, at Camp 
Dennison, 16 miles from Cincinnati, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
They have a fine two-story club house with wide verandas facing 
the river. In another building is the kitchen and still another 
building, with screened sides, provides sleeping quarters for 
those who cannot find room in the club house. C)n the grounds 
is a base ball diamond, and near the house is the trap pit with 
e.xpert traps. The club served a fine dinner and supper to its 
guests, and music was furnished by Messrs. C. Wartman, A. 
Steemars, C. Adolphi and G. Christopher. The club has twenty- 
five members and the following officers: Geo. Schenck, Presi- 
dent; Frank Kotte, Recording Secretary; Chas. Haeffner, 
Financial Secretary; Wm. Uhl, Treasurer. The most interesting 
event of the day was a series of three team matches at 25 targets 
per man for $26 a team, losing team to pay for shells and targets. 
The teams were Gambell and Pfieffer vs. D. Pohlar and W. Uhl, 
the latter team receiving handicaps of 3, 5 and 2 in the three 
matches. The first match was won by Gambell 23, Pfieffer 20; 
43 to 38. In the second match Uhl did good work, breaking his 
first 14 straight and scoring 22, Pohlar 1^41, with handicap, 46 
to their opponents’ 43. Gambell made high score of the series 
in this match, missing only his Uth target. In the third match 
Gambell missed his 1st and ,15th targets, scoring 23; Pfieffer 19-42 
to johlar’s 20; Uhl 16—36; with handicap, 38. Several other 
makhes W?re shot, but the scores made were low. The sh'o'o'ting 
was brought to a close just as supper was antlouiiced, the sup- 
ply of targets giving out at the same time. During the day 
Gambell broke 108 out of 126; D. Pohlar, 126 out of 166; Pfieffer, 
68 out of 90; Uhl 81 out of 110; Knorr, 68 out of 90; Miller, 37 
out of 65; H. Pohlar, 27 out of 60. The grounds are hard ones 
to shoot on, as the background is formed by large trees which 
grow thickly on the river bank, and quick work is necessary to 
catch the targets before .they are almost lost to sight against 
the trees. 
The regular medal shoot of the Rohrer’s Island Gun Club; of 
Dayton, was held on July 25. Six men qualified with scores of 
25 or better, out of the thirteen who shot. In the sixth shoot- 
off Oswald broke 5 straight and Hodapp broke 4. Hodapp cer- 
tainly gave Oswald a hot race. In the shoot-offs he shot at 39 
targets and missed 5. Oswald shot at 38 and missed 3. Harry 
Oswald and Wm. C. Oldt chose five men each for a team contest 
at 25 targets per man. The first match was a very close con- 
test, being won by Oswald’s team, 127 to 126. The win was 
credited to J. Schaerf, who beat Sapp, the last man to shoot on 
Oldt’s team, by 1 target, 18 to 17. The score, when five men on 
each side had shot was tied on 109. The second match was won 
by the Oswald team, 122 to 115. Miller, of the Oldt team, was 
high man for both matches with 47. Hanauer, Oswald team, 
second, with 46. 
The Dayton Gun Club held their regular shoot on July 28. 
Thirteen members were present. As the time for the club tour- 
nament, Sept. 4 and 5, approaches the attendance will improve. 
The Fayette Gun Club, of Lexington, Ky., had thirty-one 
shooters in attendance at their regular weekly shoot on July 27, 
most of whom shot through the 100-target programme provided by 
the managers. Among the visitors was the genial trade repre- 
sentative, C. O. Le Compte. The first event was for a silver 
cup given by the club, open to members only. It was won by 
F. yan Deren. Event No. 3 was the sixth in the series of twelve 
semi-monthly contests at 25 targets each for a Parker gun. As 
the scores stand now this is anybody’s race. High score for 
the day was made by F. Van Deren with 83 out of 100; F. C. 
Bell, second, with 81. 
The Columbus Gun Club’s plans for their Labor Day shoot 
have been completed, and a day of good sport is promised. 
la Other Places. 
The Grand Valley, Ont., Gun Club held its maiden effort 
in the target-tournament line last week. The attendance was not 
large, yet those present had a good time and good scores were 
witnessed. Arthur, Clifton, Drayton and Toronto sent delegates. 
McGill, of Toronto, made high score, 158 out of 175; Mallory, 
Drayton, second 157, and Dunk, of Toronto, third, 156. 
The Topeka, Kan., Gun Club is of late waking up. A merchan- 
dise_ shoot is on tap. This is the town where such men as Frank 
Irwin, Gwynne, Price, Cap. Bogardus and Fred Erb shot in big 
tournaments thirty years ago. It was here that the last line 
of the wild pigeons were shot at the trap. They were secured 
by Judy from the roost in the Indian Territory. Those good 
old shooting days will never come again, when 150 men would 
each put up $12.60 and shoot the ties to a finish. 
When there are shooting matches at Youngstown, Ohio, lead- 
ing; the gang you will always find C. D. Hursey as manager, 
while C. F. Needels is the efficient secretary. 
The gun club known as the Buffalo Bill, North Platte, Neb., 
has new officers, viz., A. Muldoom President; George Kinkowinch, 
Vice-President; C. C. Hopfer, Treasurer; W. W. Walkins and 
Ralph Starkey, Field Captains. 
Fred Croneis made the journey from Bucyrus, Ohio, to Monett 
on a bicycle for the purpose of taking part in the shoot held 
there. He made the good score of 41 out of 50, notwithstanding 
his tiresome ride. 
The explosion or bursting of a gun at Allentown, Pa., put 
a stop to a shoot. This leads us to call attention of all shooters 
that most every accident of this kind can be prevented by 
simply looking through the gun and note if any obstruction was 
left by the previous shot. 
From far away Weiser, Idaho, comes the reporfi that it being 
ladies’ day there were many spectators. The official shoot for 
the gun club trophies will take place at the next meeting. 
L. A. Platt, President of the Eau Claire, Wis., Gun Club, re- 
ports that what is left of the club will hold a shoot Wednesday. 
.Some ten years ago this club was flourishing, held some large 
tournaments and had a squad that few, if any, clubs in the 
Northwest possessed its equal. 
Fourteen hundred pigeons were lately sold by the Kidd Ranch 
near Stockton, Colo., for the purpose of being used at the gun 
club tournament. 
The Omaha, Neb., shooters have an eye to business, and should 
notify Mr. Roosevelt. At their first shoot, held at Cut-Off Lake, 
the first prize was a baby carriage. Stewart won the shoot-off. 
It has been many months since the Alpena, Mich., Gun Club 
held a shoot, but the secretary writes that a shoot wdll be held 
on Friday to try and get the boys again interested in target 
shooting. 
ITie new Atlantic Gun Club, lately organized at Houghton, 
Mich., will hold shoots regularly every second Saturday afternoon. 
We note that the Cheboygan, Mich., Gun Club has been organ- 
ized with the following members: W. E. Shoemaker, Capt. 
Welch, Frank Tracy, W. H. Conboy, Jas. J. Murphy, Fred 
Steiner, I. S. Cooper, Art. Frambach, Dr. Graham, Henry 
Cueny, John R. Craig, W. L. Martain, Joseph Earl, Henry 
Young, W. S. O’Briem C. L. Margnette. 
The Horton, Kan., Gun Club’s name has not, to the writer’s 
knowledge, been seen in print for the past dozen years. Todd 
Wallingford won a first prize and P. P. Peterson second, with 
Jules Marquette third. 
The Sycamore, 111., Gun Club has taken a new lease on life, 
notwithstanding the absence of Colonel Shafter, and will hold 
regular shoots hereafter. 
At Faribault, Minn., it was the decision of the gun club that 
a shoot would be held only once each week. Does it occur to 
the new clubs that shooting too often and too much is the cause 
of the decay of many clubs? It is easy to make shooting too 
expensive. 
Target shooting is improving at Edgar, Neo. At the last shoot 
there Dr. P.G, Grimm won first prize, J. W. Hiler second and 
Dr. G. R. Woods, thprd.. 
The secretary writes from Alpena that the Cheljdygan and the 
Onaway Gun Club are_ getting ready to challenge the Alpenas. 
Nothing gets up the interest in the shooting line equal to a 
team race. 
There is talk of holding a big target tournament at Pine Bluff, 
Ark., Aug. 22-24. Shooters of that State should watch for full 
information. These Pine Bluff shooters are hummers in the 
tournament business. 
There were teams from eight gun clubs lately in competition 
at lola,^ Kan. They were from Coffeyville, Columbus; Erie, EL 
Scott, Florence, lola and Nevada and Carthage, Mo. 
Uic Eveleth, Minn., Gun Club has challenged the -Virginisi 
club for a team match, and as soon as the conditions af^ ar- 
ranged the readers of this journal will be informed of same. 
Members of the Fargo, N. D., Gun Club are warming up for 
the Grand Forks tournament. At the last practice Long made 
53 out of 60. 
At the last Friday shoot of the Martinsville, Ind., Gun Club 
Charles Johnson won both prizes. , At 100 targets he scored 90. 
The Michigan shooters should return thanks to the energetic 
members of the Saginaw, Mich., Gun Club. Prizes amounting to 
$700 were put up for competition at the July 30 shoot. 
The Easton, Ohio, Gun Club will on Thursday contest for theif 
new trophy. 
The Fairfax, S. D., Gun Club will erect a club house for use 
of its members. 
The Ashdown Gun (Ilub, Winnipeg, lately held one of those 
unique shoots arid outings, shooting from a barge while being 
towed down the river. Attractive prizes were up, and the sport was 
much enjoyed. 
The grounds for the use of the Ishpeming, Mich., Rod and 
Gun Club have been located at Brasswire Hill near the street 
cars. Weekly contests will be held, and shooters of Marquette 
and Nagaunee will be invited to participate. A tournament is 
to be held soon. 
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to shoot for some valuable prizes that will be offered fo 
competition. 
Since the temporary organization of the gun club at Carroll 
Iowa, there has been a regular scramble to ' get on the club’ 
roll, some sixty men having already paid the fee. The officer 
were elected Saturday evening, H. F. Shirmer, President; Juliu 
Ruge, Vice-President; W. T. Ross, Secretary, L. T. Anderson 
Treasurer. 
An important meeting of the Akron, O., Gun Club was heh 
Thursday night as the stockholders elected officers. G. E 
Wagoner was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death o 
J. A. Bradley. Others elected were R. T. Dobson, Vice-President 
W. W. Wohlfrend, Secretary; J. K. Williams, Captain. Th” 
Akron boys now have monthly shoots, and besides are gettinj 
ready for shoots to be held on Labor Day and Thanksgiving. 
President A. E. McKenzie, cf _ the Denver, Colo., Gun (jlub 
was seen last week in Salt Lake, where he was boasting the bij 
shoots to be given at Trinidad and at Colorado Springs. Me 
Kenzie, Bergess and Sharp each got into an argument and settlei 
It at ihe traps by each getting 23 breaks out of 25. 
Members of the new gun club at Manistique, Mich., Flenr 
Neville, Ed. Ashford, John Schuster, Theo. Willebrand, A. Me 
Lead, M. Schneider, Oliver Champime, Gus Weigman, J. W 
Nagle, Ed. Niles, Sherman McNeill, E. E. Combs, H F 
Dowker, S. L. Dodge, F. N. Meriam, J. E. Fernea, Chas. How 
ard, P. Eckstrom, N. W. Fox, C. W. Adkins, O. S. Johnson 
W. A. Mix, D. J. Ward, Dan La Framboise, J. H. Cole, L 
Rosenthal, R. C. McKessen F. S. Thorp,- Claud Smith, Wm 
Durno, Alex. Durno, Jake Stellwager, W. L. Carpenter, J. H 
Wheeler, T. M. Wood, Wm. Rowe, Ed. Blau, Wm. L. Wooc 
and A. R. Munn. 
Marshalltown, la.. Gun Club has started in to practice for thi 
contest with the Grinnell club. L. C. Abbott was high; C. P 
Cook, second; Dr. H. H. Nichols, third; E. G. Wallace, fourth 
E. H. Keeler, George Snow and A. B. Hover, tied on fifth. 
There was a “Tramp” at Monmouth, 111., last week, and hi 
stirred up some interest in the gun club, and there will be weekb 
shoots held. 
Harry Scriber won the shoot for trophy at Fond Du Lac, Wis. 
held last week. 
A trap has been purchased, and a new gun club is being formec 
in Beaver Brook, Pa. 
The Grinnell, la., Gun Club has issued a challenge to shoot i 
match with the Marshalltown club. A trophy is the object sought 
The New Illinois Athletic Gun Club held their first shoot a- 
Watson’s Park on last Thursday, there being twenty-two present 
Some good prizes are posted, and shoots will be held eaci 
Thursday. 
The Dalton, O., Gun Club started Saturday for Turkey Foot 
Lake, where it will camp for ten days. Those in the party 
were F. E. Gibson, George Harig, Glenn Kasier, A. H. Arick, 
H. Santmyer and G. C. Freet. 
Virginia, Minn., Gun Club held the first shoot for this year 
aftd elected officers, viz.^ E, D, Parmelle, President; W. J. Schulze 
Secretary; Dr. W. H, spratley. Captain. Dr. Baldv/in and D. o’ 
Anderson were new members added. 
Little Falls, Minn., Gun Club has secured new grounds and 
put same in good condition. The first shoot, which is to be a 
weekly event, was held last Wednesday. 
The Forest Gun Club, Upper Sandusky, O., will hold the first 
tournament in September. A committee now has charge of the 
affair, and there will.be an attractie programme issued. 
“Pardon me,” said the clubman with the bald spot on the back 
of his head, “but why do you always insist on playing for stakes 
when we sit down in a quiet game of cards?” “That’s my busi- 
ness — not yours,” retorted the clubman with the watery eye “I 
know it is. Why don’t you quit it and go at something else?” 
Chicago Tribune. 
“My proudest boast,” said the lecturer, who expected his state- 
ment to be greeted with cheers, “is that I was one of the men 
behind the guns.” “How many miles behind?” piped a voice in 
the gallery.-Philadelphia Press. p peu a voice in 
“Sa_y, father, what js ‘.jtoboW’?” “A nobody, my son, 
prominent ■womans husband.”— Washington Life. 
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