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‘‘Army and Nary .Journal" Official Report, dated Oct.Z, 1874. , , 
“The match decides several disputed pointa, as near as they can be decided: First, that there is no perceptible difference in accuracy between breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders, but that if anything 
the former are the beet._ as thejf are certainly the qaickest; second, that in our clear climate we may look for even better shooting; in the future; {third, that the Remington rifle stands at the head ol all 
others for accuracy, as it does in simplicity of mechanism. The Remington rifles in the match scored thirteen points ahead of the same number of muzzle-loaders, and twenty-two points ahead of the Sharps' 
breech-loaders in the same team.” 
In the Intemational Match, six muzzle-loaders, three Remington, and three other breech-loaders were used. Lieut. Fulton, Col. Bodine, and L. L. Hepburn used the three Remingtons. Fulton's score 171 
out of a possible 180— highest score ever made. 
For full oflidal r^ort, see Army and Navy Journal, Oct. 3, 1874, 
MILITARY MATCH RIFLES, just out. Ihice or $55, with Vernier and Wide-gauge Sights; also Pocket Vernier Scales for sighting military rifles, $’2,50, 
Send for Treatise on Rifle Shooting (free) to 1^ Q ^ g Q g 
Manufacturers of BKEECH-LOADING GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS, AMMUNITION, ETC. 
I CHICAGO OFFICE 237 State St. 
283 BROADWAY. N Y 
Armory. Uion N- Y. 
-i WASHINGTON OFFICE 521 Seventh St. 
I PITTSBURG OFFICE 10 Sixth St. 
Figeon Traps, 
PARKBR’S 
PATENT SELF-CLOSING 
“FT” and ‘‘T” 
PLUNGE TRAPS. 
These traps are made a/ter the style of the regular plunge traps, 
with the additional improvement— which is patented^— or so con- 
necting the covers with the plunger— on which the bird sits, and 
from which he is thrown when the trap is operated — astoclnse them 
wh^ the plunger tails to place, and by its weight holds them down 
80 that it 18 impossible for a bird to open the covers and escape, as 
ie often the case with other plunge traps. The special advantages 
claimed are that the 
TIME AND BIRDS SAVED 
daring a single^ season's use of 
Parker’s Patent Self-Closing Traps, 
will more than 
REPAY ANY CLUB WHICH MAY ADOPT THEM. 
No expense is spared in manufacturing these traps to make them 
STRONG AND DURABLE. 
Each trap has an 
Extra Water-tight Rox 
outside the box, which piotects the plunger, 
WITH COVER FOR THE SAME, 
thns enabling the sportsman to set the trap firmly in the ground and 
remove it at any time, leaving the outside box, with cover, on the 
field. 
PRICE, $25.00 PI R PAIR 
A pair of sent by freight or express on receipt of the price. 
PARKSB. BROS., 
West Meriden, Conn. 
PLec6mmeiid.aLt:,ioiis : 
From Capt. A. H. BOGARDUS, Champion Wing Shot of America: 
“I reckon your pigeon trap away above all other traps I ever saw 
It is handy to use and eare to work. I tell every body 1 meet that 
It ia the only trap that onght to be used.” 
A. H. Booardus. 
Extract from a private letter received from Hos. A. C. Mattooh: 
“What can I say that will convey to the trap shooters of this 
country a clearer idea of the excellence and superiority of your 
Patent Self-closing Pigeon trap, over any other pigeon trap, that 1 
have seen, than to mention the fact that I have witnessed the shoot- 
ing of nearly twenty thonsaiid birds from those traps at our late 
convention, and cannot now call to mind a single instance when 
the shooting was delayed an instant in consequence of disarrange- 
ment of traps; they can be filled, with less loss of birds, and with 
greater facility than the old fashioned traps.” 
THESE TRAPS WERE ADOPTED 
BY THE 
NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION, 
At their annual convention, held at Batavia, June, 1873, as will be 
Been by the following letter; 
“In answer to your favor of the 17th regarding the action of the 
Association about the self-closing improvement to plunge traps, I 
would say that this Association has adopted them and engaged Mr. 
Knapp to add to the eighttraps now owned by the Association, this 
■elf-cloeing improvement. Yoiira respectfully, 
JoBH B, Sagi, Sec. N. Y. S. Asaoc’n.” 
IHIGHIGAIV. 
Central Railroad. 
Detr 9 it to Chicago 284 Miles. 
An important link in the 
G-reat Through Iiine of Trav< 1 
between the East and West. 
Parties desiring to visit any part of the West will find this road 
first-class in all respects. 
Connections are made at Chicago with all the Western Roads. 
HENK'Sr C. WSrfTWORTK, * 
General PasHenger Agi. ^ Chicago^ III. 
We make no charge for Guns, or other ordinary traps for Sports 
men. Dogs carried at reasonable figures. 
'Chicago & Alton Railroad. 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chicago to 
St. Louis, and Chicago to Kansas City 
■Witla.OTJi.t ClAaiAK© of Ca,3rs. 
First-class accommodations in everything 
SP0I2TSMEN will find splendid shooting on the line of this 
road; prairie chicken, geese, ducks, brant, quail, etc. Count cte 
direct at Kansas City with the Kansas Pacific Railroad for the great 
Buffalo and Antelope range of Kansas and Colorado. 
Liberal arrangvtnenU for transpoi-t of Dogs for sperrtsmen. 
CpATti'TOK, Con Prsp. Ac^.. CbicJJgo Rk 
SPORTS MRltf ! 
Have you been THE NEW SHELL, with 
“SLOTTED HEAD” and BERDAA PRIAIER ! 
IP NOT, 
SEND FOR A SAMFLE, 
And hereafter 3*00 will 
Use ISTo Other Shell 1 1 
The 
■ 
Chicago and North-Western Railway. 
This great corporation now owns and operates over two thousand 
miles of road, radiating from Ch cago like tbi fingers in a man's 
hand, its lines reach in all directions and cover about all of the 
country north, north-west and west of Chicago. With one branch 
it reaches Racine. Kenosha, Milwaukee, aud the country north 
thereof; with another line it pushes through Janesville, Watertown, 
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Escanaiia. to N gaunee. and 
Marquette, with another line it passes through Madison, Eiroy. and 
for 8t. Paul and Minneapolis; branching westward from Eiroy, it 
runs to and through Winona, Owatonna, St. Peter, Mankato, New 
Ulm, and stops not until Lake Kameska, Dakota, is reached; an- 
other line starts from Chicago and runs through Elgin and Rockford 
to Freeport, and, via the Illinois Central, reaches Warren, Galena 
and Dubuque, and the country beyond. St 11 another Ime runs al- 
most due westward, and passes through Dixon, Sterling, Fulton, 
Clinton, (Iowa,) Cedar Rapids, MarshalltowD, Grand Junction, Mis- 
souri Valley Junction, to Council Bluffs and Omaha. This last 
named is the “Great Trans-Continental Rovte.” and the 
hiOMer overland line for Nebraska, Colorapo, Utah, Idaho, 
Montana, Nevada, California, and the Pacific Coast. It runs 
through the Garden of Illinois and Iowa, and Is the best, safest, 
shortest and best route to Omaha^ Lincoln, and other points in 
Nkbraska, and for Cheyennb, Denver, Salt Lake City, Vib- 
QiNiA City, Carson, Sacramento. San Francisco and all oth 
points west of the Missouri river. 
See, then, what one company can do. If you want to go to M 
waukee. Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Sheboygan. Janesville, Wai, 
town, Oshkosh, De Pere, Gieeu Bay, Riuou, Madison, Barab 
Eau Claire, Hudson, Stillwater, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, 
Breckenridge, Morehead, Fort Garry, Winona, Owatoni.a, New 
Ulm, Freeport, Warren, Plaltsvilie, Galena. Dubuque, Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge. Sioux City, Yankton, Council Blutis, Omaha. Lincoln, 
Denver, Salt Lake City, Sacremento, San Francisco, or a hundred 
other northern, nonh-wesiem. or western points, tliis great line is 
the one you should take. The track is of the best steel rail, and is 
well ballasted and as free from dust as a road cau be made. The bridges 
are ^trong and.dur.<ble, and all the appointmeuts are first-class in 
every respect. The trains that run ov*^r this route are made up of 
elegant new Pullman Palace Draw ing Room and Sleeping Coaches, 
built expressly for this line^ luxurious, well-lighted and well venti- 
lated Day Coaches, and pleasant lounging^ and smoking cars— all 
built by this campauy in their own shops. The cars are all equipped 
with the celebrated Miller Safety Platform, and patent Butters and 
couplings, Westinghouse Safety Air Brakes, and every other appli- 
ance that has been devised for the safety of l assenger trains. All 
trains are run by telegraph. In a word this GREAT LINE has the 
best and smoothest track, and the most elegant and c< mfortable 
equipment of any road in the West, and has no competitor in the 
country. It is eminently the L.voriie route with the Chicagoans 
travelling west, north, or north-west, and is acknowledg' d by the 
travelling public to be the popular line for all points in Northern 
Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Northern Michigan, Dakota, West- 
ern Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, 
Nevada, California, and the Pacific Slope. 
TO SPORTSMEN: 
This line presents peculiar advantages. For 
These Shells with slotted heads are so constructed as to enable 
sportsmen easily to remove iheexploiled caps from the outside with 
any pointed instrument— even a c mmon pocket knife will do the 
work successfully. Once seen Sportsmen will use no other shell, as 
it obviates all trouble with broken down anvils, bniken points in 
cap ejectors, holes punched through caps, screw head shells that 
corrode and cannot be unscrewed after a little use. In a word, it will 
supercede ail other shells now in use. 
PRICE, $3.00 PER DOZEN. 
Sample Shell by mail 25 cts. Address, 
PARKER BROTHERS, 
_ West Meriden, Conn. 
Prairie Chickens, Ducks, Geese and Brant Shooing, 
our Iowa Line to-day offers 
jr ore E a r o r ah I e P o i v ts 
than any other road in the coniUty, while for 
Deer and Bear Hunting and for Brook Trout, Lake Sal- 
mon. Pike, Pickerel and Basa Fiaking 
a hundred points on the Northern and North-western lines of thi 
company will be found unsurpassed by any thing in the West. 
$5 >0 $20 
Per Day at home. Terms free. Address 
G. Stirson & Co., Portland, Maine. 
Martin HCGHITT, Gen. Sup't., Chicago. 
W. H, ST£NNi£TT, Gen. Pase. Agt,, Chicago. 
