210 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
potitsmett’s $oods. 
W. & C. SCOTT & SONS 
Genuine Breech Loaders. 
WINNERS OF THE GUN TRIAL OF 1873 
Report of Gnu Trial 9cnt on application. 
AGENT*: 
WM. READ & SONS, 
1 3 Fnueuil Mull Sq., Boston. 
Also all other makes:— Greener, WeaUcy Richards, 
Webley, Remington. Moore, Ac. 
A genuine Scott Muzzle Loading Gun. $25 up. 
I Maynard, Ballard. Remington and Share's Rifles. 
••Ballard a breech loading Sporting Rifle* $1811" 
Bugaev's Gyro Trap, for shooting practice. 
Fine FUhlng Hod. and Tackle. 
Fine Bronze Yacht Guns on mahogany carriages. 
Complete, os furnished the New York and Boston 
Yacht Squadrons. 8END FOR CIRCULARS. 
Estul>li*8lietl 1 843. 
Breecli and Muzzle Loading 
’) AU I™™™) 
Sportsmen’s Apparatus, 
AJOIUN ITIOW, 
Materials for Gun-Makers, &c., 
Wholesale and Retail. Guna made to order, or re- 
paired in the best manner. 
ALEXANDER McCOMAS. 
je 18 No. 51 Sontb Calvert st.. Baltimore. 
Popes rifle 
AIR PISTOL, 
Shoots Larts or Sings 
Perfectly accurate at 30 ft. j; 
AND IMPROVES BY USE. 
AO NOISE. AS THE FORCE IS AIR ALONBj 
Splendid P> rlor Amusement. 
Recommended by General Sherman. 
One may become dead shot by practicing with it. 
To a Sportsman la invaluable. Price, including 
Dart*, Slugs. Tar .U and Gunstock, $5. Handsomely 
trickle plated, $■> Self adjusting Bell Target. $.. 
For sale by gun dealers generally, or sent by mall on 
receipt of price. Postage 36 els. !*OPE BBO'S, 
Manufacturers. 15 High Street, Boston. Maas 
$10, §50,8100 often leads to fortune. 
Send for a copy of the Wall Street Renew and 
Pamphlet, showing the various methods of topere- 
tlng. J. HICKLING * CO , Bankers and Brokers, 
72 Broadway, N. Y. Dec 28 
SIZE OF TARGET, 13 FEET WIDE BY 6 FEET HIGH. 
Slip! 
1 illti 
Scale 1.3 Inch to «he Fool- 
4. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5-74, OUT OF A POSSIBLE 75. 
DISTANCE, 800 YARDS. 
Score of FIFTEEN CONSECUTIVE SHOTS BY COL. JOHN BOBINE, AT CREEDMOOR, IN THE “BENNETT MATCH,” Oct. 3, 1874, with a 
REMINGTON Breech Loading, Long Range Challenge RIFLE, 
WHICH MADE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH, 
The Highest Score on Record, 
Please take notice, this Target was made In an OFFICIAL MATCH, not at private Practice. 
9 . . _ .... a j rnwan/iPi fifRM nl Tftmrrrt V/itjA lift. S 1R74 
Eitract from the “ Army and Navy Journal" Official Report, Dated Oct. 8, 1874. 
..... , . . r, , ', ‘ ,hp V ran ho decided flrst. that there is no perceptible difference In accuracy 
The match decide several disputed points. , as r.ev as they cm t {^ n ‘ ckcgl . second, that In our clear climate we may 1 
1 UV U1.1LU UCUUl, K»Ciai UIO|-UKU - 
mnzzle loaders, but that If anything the former are the best, as they are certainly 
In the future; third, that 
between breech loaders and 
look for even better shooting 
THE REMINGTON RIFLE Stands ahead of all others for Accuracy, 
neuc .« cramrrmv r.c- upeniVNM THE REMINGTON RIFLES IN THE MATCH SCORED THIRTEEN POINTS AHEAD OF THE SAME 
AND TWENTY TWO POINTS AHEAD OF THE SHARPS BREECH LOADERS IN THE SAME TEAM/' 
?n ^he totornaUonal^a.Fh ^x muuJYoStoa three REMINGTON . and three other breech loaders were used. Capt. I ULTON, Col. BODINE and L. L. 
Jnrnal, Oct. 3d, 1874. FULTON'S SCORE 171 OUT OF 180: HIGHEST SCORE EVER MADE. 
Military Match Rifles Just Out; Price $35 or $55 with Vernier and Wind Gave Sights' also Pocket Ver- 
nier Gauges Price $2.50. 
Send for Treatise on Rifle Shooting, and Report of International Match, (free) to 
E. REMINGTON & SONS, £ 
P. O. BOX 3994. 
Manufacmr srs of 
Breech Loading dims, Rifles, JPistols, Ammunition, See 
ARMORY, ILION, N. Y. 
283 BROADWAY, N. Y. 
Chicago Office. 237 Slate Street; Pittsburg Office; 10 Sixth Street; Washington Office. S21 Seventh Street. 
4, - 4, 4, 4, 4. 4. 4. 4. 4, ^4. 
40 OUT OP a POSSIBLE 40. * 
Beslc, >. Inch u Foot. 
CO., 
Score of Ten Consecutive Shota at GOO yards, made 
with a SHARPS MILITARY RIFLE, six lbs. trigger 
pull, without rest, by CoL H. A. Gildkbslektk, 
Attorney and Counsellor at Law, New York City, In 
a Match at Creedmoor, Dec. 26, 1874. 
SHARPS RIFLE 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Patent Breech Loading, Military, Sporting, and 
Long Range Rifles. 
The BEST in 1850. The BEST in 1875. 
Twenty-five Years of TJse, un«l Constant PROGRESS. 
Sharps Rifles Never Shoot Backwards. 
For Brilliant Achievements of Sharps Rifles at Creedmoor Range, During the 
Summer of 1873, See Oflleial Record. 
SHARPS RIFLES won at Creedmoor Range the HIGHEST SCORE of any BREECH LOADED RIFLE 
need in the great International Contest between the American and Irish Teams, Sept., 1574. 
Won Firet and Second Prizes In Army and Navy Journal Match at Creedmoor, 1874; also First and four 
others of eight Prizes for BEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES, In same match. 
Won First, Second. Third, and Fourth, and three other Prizes (seven oat of twelve) In All Comers' Match, 
•t Creedmoor, Sept., 1874. 
Won First and three other Prizes In Press Match, at Creedmoor, 8ept., 1874. 
Won Thirteen Prizes in the Bennett Match, at Creedmoor, Sept., 1874 
Ac. Ac. Ac. Ac. Ac. 
SPORTING RIFLES FROM $3QTO $38. 
CREEDMOOR RIFLE8, with Elevation for 1,800 Yards, 890 to 612&- 
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CA1AL0QUE. 
.ARMORY AND OFFICE HARTFORD, CONN. WeStCOtt, PreS’t. 
SCHUYLth. HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
19 Malden Lane, 20 A 22 John street, N. Y. 
BREECH LOADING GUNS 
A SPECIALTY. 
AGENTS 
for the following celebrated makers : 
W. & C. SCOTT A SONS (winners at the Interna- 
tional Gun Trial of 1873); J. P. CLABROUOH A 
BRO.; P. WEBLEY & SONS, and WESTLEY 
RICHARDS. 
HOLABIRD S Shooting SUITS. 
DIXON8 A HA WR8LEV8 SHOOTING TACKLE 
STURTEVANT BRASS SHOT SHELLS, 
BUSSEY’S PATENT GYRO PIGEON AND TRAP, 
WITH CASE. AND 100 BIRDS. 
Black’s Patent Cartridge Vest. 
This Vest affords the best ar- 
rangement yet Invented for carry- 
ing cartridges. The weight is 
so evenly distributed that It Is 
scarcely felt. Cartridges con be 
w carried with the heads down in 
amir limit T this vest, which Is of great Impor- 
tance when brass sheila are used, 
as wheu carrying them with the 
head up the weight of the shot of- 
ten forces the wad forward, when 
bad shooting Is the result. In 
ordering send measurement around the chest. 
* PRICE $7.50. 
AGENT8 FOR THE 
Union Metallic Cartridge Com- 
pany’s Ammunition, 
WARRANTED THE BEST IN TIIE MARKET. 
SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 
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