ou ib at September ^ t tarnished by any 
lo il now that their bngh t au rcls n cbooS fog their own 
foolish after action M t.b«3 notion cerla foiy , a . The 
.successors, or /^oostug w®* 8 ® b ' cea kept in a purer 
sport of rifle ^o 0 . 11 "* “S. surrounds many other lines of 
atmosphere than that ■ - which each member of the 
sport. With that pet y JJ *» Pfg* 0 la9t raa ich, they took a big 
team so willingly! recei a , vcs a p0 orly paid professional 
step toward makingof them e £ cu9e fQr tbat payment; 
team, but tbere was a show o{ ^ >tatute pfttb to under- 
hut for the t<»® P evolving upon it, must compel the with- 
take duties no way devolving I • wb ich all right tbink- 
drawal of of the St of ride shooting would 
ing patrons and ad AH who have no designs iu 
precatc the prese nt position of ^ affairs. 
TIGER SHOOTING IN INDIA. 
Chicago, March 4, 1878. 
Editor Eorara ;■ , e[ics on th. .porting rifle, 
rr no-T“^ 0 i:;., n-ra. - ettcoed^.y 
gtapiiic style! 1 “, W J 1 “ ll 1 ciier^« r Mr. W. T. Hornedsy, who is 
Shunting i„ India for tiro P“ r P ose ot collecting shslctons 
now hunting A Ward, of Rochester, N. Y. 
»° d skmS ' ' /o Mr Chester A. Jackson, of Racine Wu., 
IS" id partnership with llorneday, hunt.ng for 
Prof. Ward in 8 “"^" roullt of tll0 , e ., described in 
££ attest that I would scud 
“ TVc°riflf^t““he work was doue «. a Mayuarf, 
ot 40.100 calibre. T per ceive that Professor 
W a °a° baT puMWted a letter from Mr. llorneday to himself, 
Camp m Wednesday, Sept, o, 18 1 7. 1 
JDpr OW iW: 
heart of the forest wtho ly y ^ hil f 9 ju8t two months 
camp with me. 1 have ^ doal of shooting in that 
yesterday, and . attack of fever, which kept me in 
time. I have had a eugni ui recovered, however, 
camp for fi y ® “ a t ^ d t^wbat have I been shooting ?” Well, | 
and now feel tip t P- Indian elks, one black hear, six 
I have shot one bison, jjjlntome. . Qr spotted deer, 
muntjaks, or g ikev’s j bave madc up twenty per- 
thlrty-six big black monkey ^ beauli f u i skins of this 
feet monkey skeleton • er on an average than the 
species alone. It . j bav e got so 1 can hit these 
old howlers of they will come to me out of the 
monkeys every time, so hat they wau pftW , By j ove , 
« y° u don ’ tb f ve, tgo 
and look under Hint shed. 
••Yes, sir, TIGER 1 C0U rse I did, and with only 
»»* e'" rl0U! 
myself W1 ^^ V C wk^oJdered it otherwise. It was a week 
jungles. Rut my. h‘Ck bunds, royac i[ included, 
ago last Monday. I bo gang and lbat day lbcr e was 
depended solely on ^ a liule foyer the day before, 
no meat in com 1 ■ , , oul and ba g a deer helorc the fever 
but 1 concluded ggo »“ 0 oi So I took two of my 
would come on ag were, and sharp hunters, 
men, and good aud true men u Y loaded with No. 
uudkboy wbo cu,r,e S a No. W shot U o , 
5 shot for birds. I cMma y always talk about, which 
“battery," tlmt I° d . r.S“ uMwoTthrcc tbundcringbig 
with them generally lbey go tiger hunting. Well, 
double-barreled rifle , beau tiful and- sunny the forest 
it was a lovely clear day ao ^ M we bad found no 
was charming to go turougu- C reek, almost dry. A 
deer, but just thee MJ. ^camo to^sm ^ ^ , w 8and 
little water flowea over u ab0 ut fifteen feet or 
The banks were 8mep u^U> tl^ e ^ tbe frC3b spoor of a 
so. Hereinthommst “ M largc as saucers 
large tiger, ihe tracts tbea the cut to match it ! 
Fancy a cat track that siz , that old cuss 
I sighed, and W 'fi e p Vme if I would dare shoot at a tiger 
was. The men asked me it i wou^^ ^ Que l saidi 
with that small ^ l wondered what the dickens 
“Yes, certainly , and t ■hen i a li , reI . ) for I had 
I would do if we went down the bank 
»o aud »ou i Tbat .be tiger bad been 
of the little creek, anu " u w . . i„:„ ure We had gone about 
loaflag tfl?"8/ 0 "US“„% h r St “to .poor, wbea sud- 
half a mile fr0 “*5 has the keeuest eye I ever saw, 
denly the man „ inTand pointed through a clump 
griped me hard hy the .arm, a v l looked .. Greal 
of bamboos that was at J 8 middle of lbe creek, just 
Ctesar s ghost I There > broadside, was old Stripes 
thirty yards from me, e ^ 6b(me full upon him, and 
himself, m all his g* 01 *’ , . geemed as big as an ox. He 
he did look gorgeous, and be see d g 9ile bauk , then 
walked slowly across ^ the bed PP ^ he .topped 
turned and parsed uaca w k . at U8i j W as 
.hurt, ruUed bts bljl-J ‘“S do. Ab 1 Wok 
ready, and kuew exac y wu ve lbe death of me, 
aim I thought. Now this shot my P . ft ste ady, cure 
KSe rouu«I ^jefroaMde drjve aj nvu^jo 
cautiously up toward him, keeping 
him well covered. The men wero ^ y^ ve ry first lire, 
bolted, ns I fully expected they minute's was stone 
Rut old Stripes was hard bit, and wtr d a UgC r 
dead. Then I tried to realize ‘bot I hacl iny ^ ft balf 
Wasn’t he huge ! He meastircd eight feet cig gcalcs 
inches as he lay, and weighed JOo POunas V rarcly 
Height at shoulders, three fee t seven i nc ““' e , b f fpet four 
exceed ten feet in length, the t g c i as8 . He was 
inches, so you see tbm « one of the 1 g ^ shot took 
DouTvl bet wo 6 ot a flue tiger Bkin, b^ 
sides bones ? #„ mo i 0 «: fTO r was killed by the other 
Just a weekbefore a emale tiger was Kitte^^y ^ biUf 
sportsman I I " ent . 1 ®^ii tinL , toward^im on the level at the 
and she came slowly walk if, a No io. bore double- 
foot; distance, twenty y^ds- •. d be dred ten shots into 
barrelled rifle and h«rdened “J^n that skin 
that tigress to kd 1 ber 1 | J ^ ber _ and found that 
no wTbail baThTareaUy vital part, Tbe brute wee just 
h Trt^«y“tty. yards from J tiger Old buotere 
had told me that my rifle wm too small to kill h 'S g ^ died 
advised me never to shoot at one with , t i nd tbat 
and thought 0Q a SeTs eye Sr nock, I could 
if I could ever get a fa,r f , r i de to shoot straight 
kill him,, for I can depend o sbot9) u B nd 
^LffiaSr^WSS«L Ail honor 
Maynard. 
n r Hoy writes me, in addition to the above, that : “A 
later Mter from Horneday states that the Government paid 
of powder. vitnl interest to the sportsman in 
There are man y P°^,“ ;T X r ds a magnificent illustra- 
tes recital and ““W^Jorthy of all honor. But 
tionofsucb uorve and BM ^ejw y ^ ,, 
the one essential fact to “‘heretofore said, is the evidence 
corroborative of what ft gftt tra j e ctory for the first 
it affords of tt y" p , || l . ( flight. If Horneday’s bullet had 
hundredyardsonhe bullet Qf piercing the tigers 
gone a single inch t n | vej . wouldbave written that letter, 
eye at the first shot, u have had the courage to fire 
and probably evrab would would carry exactly where 
if not perfectly sure tuai ui ^ S. Ci.evbi.and. 
it was aimed. 
MAY IS 
Game in Market— Retail 
Gamo-Wilsoa snipe, per do/.., $‘2.o0; plover $2.00 y ^ 
large, $3.00; small, 75; wild pigeons, fcgbts, fl , 
fed $3 ; Philadelphia squabs, $2.7.> ; wild do, • • 
Poultry— PUiliufclpbia nuj Bucks County dry P-'« d ^ 
t s ’ dC t«r- 
J: y s ., do., duck., 18; spring cbickcus, 
3 ' Sr „,konknu ROD A»" O™ 
officers of the Springfield, Mas ., w H u Young, Cap- 
Luther Clark, Statistical Officer , • « . in of tbe 
tain of the Long-range and S 8. n ^~J’ r s were admit- 
MttTf voted 8 to Competitive trial, of 
marksmanship for membership in the teams. 
at present. 
Kentucky— Stanford, April ^^^^e^for^aT^shOOting 
till the 15th proximo. 
Corinth, Miss , April aO.-Weato ™S”““ D t“.Tw 
at least four weeks m advance of^bb 0 mge ^ ( g Jge(i _ 
young blue birds on tbe wing k J g ne gobblers witbin 
STM. Sf fS. uertml Havekdied a 
over a poodle 
QUESTION 
ON RECOIL. 
Disual Ranchb, Neb., April 10, 187S. 
Editor Forest and Stream : m opln \on of shoot- 
I promised some time ago that I would g . « J J ab , e lelter8 0 f 
log the running deer, ot March 7, and I really do 
T 3. Vandyke in ihe , d on U ie subject. I agree 
not think there 18 an J l 1 . lar Yo n mast always hold ahead of 
with Him m almost every particular. moving faster tUan a 
srrjsas ... * 
■ »*- '•atSrTSS or or tlie numerous oorte.po* 
ask “Venator or Mr I ■ • J that tll e recoil takes place be- 
of theFoREST AND bTKEAM, who believe exper i ro ent : Rest 
fore the bullet leaves the K a -. to 3 rcc0l i W U1 be very slight. 
tbe gun on a log of wood, an. r ■ inches In front and two 
of Tr „, .uA r r r iS 
S ^““oro Z UU gun «..U i 
shou ,d this be so t 
Mora Rkomt..-®bto' iW 
matical truth that action and iea ^'7^multaneotisly. This 
in exactly .‘’PP 01 ' 1 ', “‘S.taSSig in tbe 
•» oo l rtii it ns the gases are being generated ; and supposing 
hS hecSrge of powder is l£|e enough, we see that ita 
CTeatest velocity iB attained, at the instant of leaving the 
mu/zle The gun is acted upon in exactly the 9ame manner , 
that is it starts backward from a state of rest at the m9tant 
of the explosion, and acquires a gradually Increasing velocity 
until the ball is clear, when the compressed gases, haymg 
nothing hut the atmosphere to push Against, exert but a 
Sbt tafluence upon it. "cailmg to mind another prmc, pie 
of mechanics, that the effect or work performed by a mov 
inc body is in proportion to the weight or mass of that body, 
the velocity being the same in all cases, we deduce from it 
that the velocities of any two bodies acted upon by the 
same force are inversely proportionate to tlieir 
This applied to the rifle and the bullet, will explain the fact 
that the ten pound gun does not have the 80 ™® penetration 
Mthe one ounce ball, though both are impelled in opposite 
directions by the same force. ^ • 
Wisconsin — WrstJUld, April SK^gnmn 
coming autumn is good- n .^ ,l j° ,n t jP section! ? Grouse, quail, 
wifi be comparatively plenty meadows and 
etc., are seen in numbers almost da , uy .upon favorable 
in the thickets. Tbe s ^ on . f any ' e vT g g have been destroyed 
for breeding, and but few t a iy, dead npo u 
by the too common practice ot burm g pasl f cW weeks 
the low-lands during ; tke Dun whistling 
I have been regaled each morm S .. p f lbe grouse 
of quail in the coppice and the resounding c w.yj. 
in close proximity to the house. 
Indiana -Delphi, April 36. -Snipe not plenty this^spnng 
Have good quail shooting in season. 
Ker’’ I wS the pecufiarly retentive subsoil, I tried to 
presence of the water fowl. 
Dolce Fab Niente.— There was one thing the Lotus 
Balers lacked They sailed away from home without on out- 
m of Seydel & Co.’s Mexican Pocket Hammocks Just pic- 
ture the weary voyagers swinging in their hammocks, munch- 
SUblotoLdSamingt&r lives sway. Toraptosate 
moderns it is forbidden to rest on flowery isles, beneath sum- 
mer skies, and far removed from the corroding cares of the 
world. Rut we bave the hammock, and if any one tigha for 
delicious ease and restful indolence, let him swing a beydel 
hammock and get peace unto his soul. 
Pressure on Barrels. -The London Field, in arranging 
the preliminaries of its trial of explosives, is amazed at the 
pressure shown on the breech of a 12-bore breech-loading 
gun with an ordinary load of powder and shot estimated n 
round numbers st from 3,000 to 3,500 poind* 
the kind of powder used.’’ Now, in the U. S. Orduance 
Manual, the pressure of the gas from exploded gunpowder is 
stated to' be 19,000 pounds per square inch on the Govern 
ment Springfield Rifle, with 70 grains of powder. But « 
12-bore shot-gun, as Major Merrill tells us, burns 8^ grains 
of powder, and it would appear from analogy that the pres- 
sure on the shot-gun might be even more than is claimed by 
our very thorough English contemporary. In fact, the Lon- 
don Field writes about an instrument used for measuring 
pressure, showing a pressure of 3,570 pounds to ihe square 
inch As to the paper pad as a measure of penetration, the 
Field, like ourselves, is sick of it. Troublesome and expene 
sive pads give no positive results, and it is tim f t m t some- 
thing better and simpler was invented. We think the O Neil 
plan, spoken about by us some time ago, would he a decided 
improvement. 
Dittmab Powder. -Having been greatly pleased as well 
na inai meted by the reports of experiments published from 
for Ho time in Fobebt and Stream, I am led to give others 
tlS benefit of mine. Trying the Dittmar powder solely on 
Sme I found H lacking in strength, as I thought, and 
fu uniformity of action, and charged the remainder of a 
can after two or three trials, up to profit and loss ; but see 
fog something about mixing with black powder, I tried it. by 
Sating in each shell one drachm black and two and la hoff 
drachma of Dittmar, mixfog in the shell by shaking. This, to 
my surprise, proved sure fire; no hanging or delay about it , 
stronger than ihe black apparently, killing birds imuch ^leaner, 
and perfectly uniform in action, giving no reooil and less 
smoke than the black. W ith the above charge I used li ozs. 
of chilled shot in a 10-bore, 9-lb. (Greener) gun. With 3 drs. 
Dittuiar and 1 dr. black (Orange rifle) powderand 
measure of chilled shot, I got stdl better ■^.^u'Juni 
formity, but with slight recoil. With ’ J d ia 
black powder and H ozs. shot, I got In 
every way, and far less smoke ; in fact, none of ac«)um. 
these proportions, however, the two powdera should 
