forest and stream^ 
1 ci.rtt Nn 9 — velocity of im 
Target No. 4, Flange • » ghot No 10 _y e 
pact 1463ft., target slightly indem tration; a circular 
locity of impact 1696ft., coinjl '^iven with the bullet with 
button detached from ■ pbjfj a briok wa ll in the rear. Target 
considerable force, stri g {oUows . Two shots were hred 
No. 4 was further tested, m weig hing 250 grains and with 
with the same barrel. , tbe i b ^ ; wil £ lbe service rifle bul- 
120 grains of powder, two oi dsr The velocity of 
let, 405 flBM. was 17l4fl P , of the last two, 1463ft-! 
impact ot the b^HmflSaUer balls with the greater velocity 
the Penetrationof g® w fl “^ owever> somewhat diminished in 
Rltcr Sd by Bhota tired at it 
Neither shot “w J^ield W the impact of a ser- 
Conclusion.— All the plate® J ■ , velocity of 1690 to 1700 
vice bullet driven with i the tbe ironones by penetra- 
feet-the steel plates byc^m&™ carbine does not pos- 
tion. The ordinary boat or cjW« pow der t0 effect this 
sesa with its ordinary charge sumcieni p p 19KC o. 
work. 
Purdy BnEEon-LOADKES.— At Messm^ ghown u8 
Graham's, a brace of superb ^wrfl weighing 9 and < i 
They are 10s and 12s, 30-inch barrel, we g | uns n0 one 
pounds. The outfit is complete matcm1, 
would wish for. In point of flu wh, ,mt :tc ^ purdy 1B a 
they are unsurpassed. Everybody k accura cy, and these 
gun-builder without a rival n f ° r “I® gJJ ?s this well-known 
two guns are about as good ones, we fancy, 
maker can turn out. 
8 $ uth 
GAME in SEASON for JULY. 
ately to the mud" g 
the water on the long p ' doe8 its season’s planting in 
the aid of it serrates, and nature oom^ ^ flrsl of May f t u 
the fall and sleeps till 8 P S- ftI)d it j 8 the food of ducks 
well sprouted and ^ootleto P 0 Bk)W i y till- it reaches the top 
and other wild fowl. Itgr ou its surface for quite a 
of the water. The leaves lie flat °n {» t0 ow rapi(]ly 
length of time and then rise up and Deg { U a3 to f eav * 
about the first of July. Where > tg. I have seen 
the ground bare, or an wt ob lect of writing this ar- 
stocks ten or twdve fe h.gk Ogee* planting it. Now, 
tide was to give an < 'S ““ he seed harden till the seed falls 
as the gets dry ? 1 have sup- 
into the water, will the not .know. I have gathered 
posed that it woddhOt , y , lhirty or forty miles— and 
it to send a short distance o !y y g wben gathered, aud 
EXPRESS rifles. 
T™ V~ open ", 
State begins August 1 ; for quail, Nov. 1 . and for ruue 
ridge, Sept. 1. 
. ‘•Rear Paw’s” letter on Express rifles pass 
I cannot let f ft practical knowledge of that 
unanswered, Z to its capabilities. In 
rifle it gives a g P .. Bear PaW - S ays about so many 
the first place, Wtowl>_ ^ ^ other ^ . Thia ig lhe 
animals escaping ft 5^ ^ one anima l in six getting 
strong point of P ful , t wo-thirds dropping 
away after being struck by ^ ^ diary that i have 
where they sWnd - b ffalo with mine, besides many deer 
“f "aTl have no. lost a single animal as ye, 
and antelope, and mine - n Iudia kiUed sixteen 
after wounding it. A fri ^ ^ took & sccond shot( and 
tigers m a fotfB be confirmed by at least two 
tbrspecuhwiiyof^rio ^ in India and 
18 cents l>orpound do fowj M . cbickenB , 15 ; do 
do duoke, 20 ; do geese, lb , btato anu " t8 . 
turkeys, 15 ; do fowl ®> 16 ; a P™J® J ^Q ua il have suffered much 
numerous than I «r hnew 
them before. 
brother sportsmen how I ' [ s . Galber it and 
wild fowl food a ? n d “^V?n from one to two feet of water on 
keep it from flrying , B ° ? ‘JJ 1 “ 0 t at all on sandy bottom), 
muddy bottom (grows poorly d It mus t not be in 
If not dry ffowt before^t is planted. 1 have thought, 
quantity enough to heat .be : and pu t at once in the 
perhaps, that might be g h d^ ^ not kept long 
water and sent in barrels o f ta .; 011 i would try it, 
enough to kill the germ by J j thin k it might keep 
however. Once get it starte , , and it is doubtful 
growing in a marsh. It . &u tbe seed . Black- 
whether birds .£ 0 ad begin to feed ou it while in the 
birds are very fond of it, ana Deg milk before it falls 
milk ; in fact, it hardly gets ou dight gather some, 
into the water. iekto get it by 
I f any sportsmen wish to get y 1 only be gathered 
the first of September, at lensi- Lutron. 
a few days 
tiSs peculiarity of the nne cau uc ^ India 
^ousand sportsmen ^^^ndfei for very lar g C game 
Africa. They are n ^. nhAnls . rhinoceros and I 
3iu 
West Virginia— Near haveseen in 
around here is fuU of game. Deer and bear j N _ H> 
the neighborhood. . 
TENN'EsSRE--SnBan7io7i, Jun«^8^— Th^prospect^for^^ ^ 
unusually fine. A much ge a “ w£re left over this 
sown in gram and ,, q ^Sh rai n recently, and if this con- 
spring. Wc have bad much rain receu y , W ill. 
tinues it may affect the prospect disastrously. 
Africa. They and hippo- 
such as Indian buflalo ana p Qth m(1 ftU anima ls of 
potamus, but for beam, lio , P a would think from 
the kind, ^ y wLch havc appeared on the Express 
reading the few letter know ledce of dangerous game 
rifle in this country hat a knowl j .b In apd 
shooting with the rme t comc t0 America 
Africa, and tha E^Ush sporty e truth beiug th t tbat 
to learn ho ^. l £ n S y mSreadvanced in the former than the 
knowledge is mfinitdy beeQ reduced t0 a science there, 
latter, sporting having m g ed tbere up t0 eight-bores, 
Every kind of a P “ dracbms of powder, and it has been 
with a charg' ® ifles are m ore immediately fatal to 
found that Express nnes cou)d b0( alway s excepting 
dangerous game than shooting at four, five and 
the animals I have ever do so, finding 
six hundred yards y le m P re e is wounded tliau 
that with aay rifle muc ^ Express bullet has not suf- 
baggea. As “P » 300 >“ ds 0 A ™, 
ficient accuracy. being to > 8 wiU Dine lime3 out ot 
Express, using 140 h r ““ * animal in America, even a 
ten, instantly P araly ^ a * sbotd ma de by a friend of 
grizzly bear- l r ? 0 ^ high grass ; they were both struck 
mine m Texas at deer ^ caae a pieC e was torn out 
high up in tbe back, an „ wide . awa ke” hat leaving no- 
as large as the crown oi cb l0 conn ect the fore- and 
thing but the skin o the st^ ^ sk - in< when taken off, was 
hindquarters. c {) uare I shot a puma in Texas, and 
fully sixteen inches squar . whole of the inside of 
the ball striking m the n j'ew t0 bold the 
head on. I have frequent y ^ . . Bear Paw says- 
duced to a pulp by an t flallened out against a bone 
that he found a bharp J Qf & deer Now, the differ- 
after passing through ev^ e y o ^ ba „ and an Express 
ence between the shock c y rgd inl0 a deC r, even into 
i9 « Ver „ y eT »r, ’ex nt ds almost at once, and, continuing its 
a fleshy part, expands . over a j^ge surface, be- 
course, tears everything '- p and penetraliDg a U the 
sides smaU por^M flying ball pnly expanded when 
neighboring organs , tn p P net ration, by havmg several 
striking the l“t bone. , As ii o p the hoilow deeper or 
plungere ro one s mould one can the pene tration. I 
Shallower, and thus ladd ^ ® e i b oul(ler of abuffalo all to 
have several times brO“ 9 bab . The difference be- 
atoms with a comm ^ P^ Qn the Express principle is 
tween an explosive ban be bu ) le t is blown almost en- 
very great. In ^ h 0 e na f ler entering, and thus loses penetra- 
firely to pieces rt J“ b uffet remains nearly whole, 
tion, whereas in the er ^ lhe point) spreading it out 
KiSfS contin^lhs its flight ia .hi. fora,, .ad 
he damage iBBim^y awful. stfttement8 of tbe destructive 
As to the exa 8S„ Bear p a w” or any other Ameri- 
effecta of the J u J le V ldia a nd join in one hunt with Eog- 
can were logo 10 » would no t, on their return, talk 
lish sportsmen there, they ^ educalion mak ing any such 
of gentleme y v e ars’ hunting in all parts of 
statements. Aft« ni y^ paw , s „ sayiD g tb , 9 , as 
America I can easi y , p a bU nting story without ex- 
tbe Western huntjr. cannot W ia punting ^ ^ in 
aerating and ■ not exist in India. Pro- 
dorng so -. utthesa ci ^ and l kave not foU nd that 
fesstoDal hunters there ; are * The only reason w hy 
•gentlemen i anywhere exagge^ ^ equa i effect from an 
Ex P reM ^ l t C ,hTn? American sheU wiU hold powder 
SPORT IN THE INDIAN 
of life a sporting excursion in Indian Terr ry „ 
:‘d^y Jcy. oar 
i“dle River, .ome forty miles west oi pr0 . 
“ The party of five , we “ l |“-^!g g0 p it ched their camp on the 
vided with l ^ e ° SgEfg’oJd, beyond the best catch 
river bank aod T fo . u “ d . n th . b p numerous reminiscences of sport of 
related by the Judge in^enu the , eiBUre bours 0 f the 
former days with wbicn ne : u g unvarying success, the 
camp. Wearying at length of^ ^ y ut B broug ht an ex- 
party started f ° r Started four wolves in plain view 
citing chase, tbe d ^ ie re immediately followed by one 
across the prune. They lIie portly Judge brought up the 
of the party. The boys and tbe P > ^ Qn tbe wolves 
rear in fine styie. offermg b^ ^ ag tbey doubled and 
then on the do S 9 - in I ® JfVvine One bet already lost as 
chased over mound and ravi . twenly f ee t over tbe 
Falstaffian William was Pffch^ »t leajt t y vered bo ttoms, 
head of his fl ° u . nd ^ 
and again e^yedthe cb^e,mgea ^ awfty Ag lhey 
up and coming down u i the wago ptured seven young 
circled they aiscovered the = of St. Louis, 
wolves, which now be would double, 
Indian territory'. , 
t -p , Mr Ira A. Paine has entirely recovered 
Ira A. Paine. .• air - He nlaved at the Opera House, 
from his recentseriousinne^. P^ y d returas to play for 
Providence, all last week to go°d house, , ana K be 
all wished Greene Smith was there. 
T— Ft- u H . l6-S^y%gh"dl 
street, has them. 0“®“. 0 ^ ery particular, in best black 
weight, elegantly fl^bed i ^ e [ y Jj ements . This cost to 
sole-leather case, wUh fuU set P ab the latest 
import it $550. It ^ Liutv^a Prei^er Scott. This 
improvements. . The i second b t^ ^ Cenlennial E xhibi- 
is as choice a gun, and was tbw country cost 
tion. No Scottgun^luch ^ e d r ““ ementa g0 with it.and 
more or was finer. Best cas ig ftQ exce n ent 
the gun has never been used. The thira g^^ aQd . g one 
little 20-bore Gr ®® n ®J- k mad e by this celebrated maker. It 
of the be.t piece, of wo k rn.de by^ gripi large gilt 
has the trebk-wedge ta » . ta F mnko a pattern of 17b 
strikers. The ^barrel is borec ^ • oZ _ 6 English 
SSrJf '”g, C ^k wl 5 at 110 P-W* ABy 
one of these guns is worthy of a visit. _ 
A TEiuAmn toe Captain BooAEDns.-The following has 
k i e h1.t indeed a very notable performance, wben we think 
that the birds were the most vigorous blue-rocks, and sprung 
with ground traps. We have to congratulate Captain Boga»- 
dus on his victory 
Th. OLD-kABHtOHtHt 
when young Colquhoun k t tbe UDa ccustome.l 
care of a keeper, ' rod stag jerm^ ® ordnance _ we faucy 
weight of a ru ?fl y ^^^{ 0C kecl P 8?nKle-barrel was in fashion, 
that the venerable QakleiehShooUr^ Code, writing many 
The author of the i Oakleigu t0 tbat exploded 
many year ® “g* ( S made steady aud deadly shots, be- 
weapon. He says that i Bing i e chance, you were 
cause knowing that . you . bad o ° r aim . Those flints 
constrained to dwell delibe y y a bomi- 
and 8 ^?^ barr T be m ^odcock 0e wobM^ have dipped under the 
nably slow. lhe wooucoor. tree-trunks while your 
bough and twisted away b charge was in 
fingers were fambhngwiththe lock ^ ^ or tb 
course of tancgjg- , b e C f e stof the brae, would have laughed 
grouse cock WelXdSoter No •/ the single-barrel was 
at the beard of the bameasno ^ sc hool, and must have 
emphatically the weapo of aturely developo in- 
bred a race of P ott *”™ was made in advance with tue mtro- 
to fogies. A v a3t 8 tnde u8sion .i oc ks. Then Joe Man- 
duction of d °^ le ; bar n r u 8 r i va i S attained, according to 
ton and his less famouanva , WO rkmanship. Cur- 
their lights, to ibe perfecuon of hnisnea w ^ J - . 
tie and Harvey followed w h their bveg Given 8 toler- 
and Eley with his caps sprink ]i Dg 0 f wild game, and tbe 
able weather, and but a fair p g the readiness 0 f 
shooter badgoodreason^ b occasionally dripping days 
his newfangled tools, urn wbat misery and prov- 
to the north of the Border, anu to lead i The wads 
ocation that P am [ u l m ^^ C '^ al g d a n d bulged when you 
in your open pocket grew der half choked the 
thriist them into tjw barrels. e p^ The slender ram- 
damp measure in the mout were cramming 
rod bent and sometimes bro f ’ ^ g e “ f y f ranlic contortions, 
down the reluctant charge in replaced by the more sub- 
SSSSiSs 
tke — 
breech-loader. — B Uukwood’t Magazine. 
nough, I-’" B 47 20 0 being required, this can be ob- 
jnger range -, rcs9 by using a 8olid ball and smaller 
lined in the Ex,. 69 . y 8ay tbat after twelve years of 
barge. In conclusion *• ' lbem in all parts of western 
,ig game shooting, eight y(} ki „ ed ove r sixty bears) 
America (during winch i time t . bayi 0 wned nearly 
md three of them in / vf y ca ' a e Q found no rifle with which I 
forty rifles of aU kinds, I ^ Express. Viator. 
would as soon face a g ) , t ood to say that all Eng- 
P. 8.-1 do not wish .to be under 1 ^ . y tUc foregoing 
CCLU-lUt*'*'- - 1 HI .1 I 
Bei.l Balls.— A San Francisco genius has invented a. ^ 
ball ” which takes the place of tbe glass bj l . L y dlf . 
the bell ball is hit it rings, giving a clear and distinct n 
tinctly heard at the distance of 800 yds. 
P. 8. — I do not tbe foregoing 
sh Express rifles will do ^b® 1 * , na ke them correctly, but 
•tier. “ Very few” makers can plenryi Turner of Bir- 
in , on« rto gft* „ r two otto, wiU not bo 
etter 
isj^SUTp W « - wm “ ol bc 
isappointed. 
Wild RioE.-We have had numerous inquiries in regard to 
wild rice. A letter from a correspondent throws a good dea 
of light on the subject. We have asked “Lutron }t be will 
give us the name of any one who would gather and seU the 
seed. Our correspondent, writing from fat. Joseph, Mich., 
under date of June 21, says : T n9 pnh 
m h , _, ild rice grows here at the mouth of the St. Joseph 
wigft of tbe berry .to it tmmeeb. 
For Forest and Stream and Rod and Gw. 
WOODCOCK SHOOTING ON THE U 
PER MISSISSIPPI-No. 1. 
By T. S. Van Dyke. 
Of all the sport to be had with dog and gun • » B al 
rious game section of the -Northwest, there is 
to the woodcock shooting that may he often had oy 
knows just where to go. But one not aebustome ^ 
grounds may hunt several days and give up in di g 
out hearing the twitter of a single wing. . g w ind- 
A small skiff, containing two men and two uog . ■ thfl . 
inguponeof the numerous sloughs that run r g Min . 
“ bottoms ” of the upper Mississippi, where l 
nesota from Wisconsin. Let us follow them. 
