PARKER’S PATENT 
Clip Caftfidp Belt, 
Price, $6.50. 
This belt revolves around the body, carries any size sheli equally 
well; holds them open end up, thereby preventing the wads start- 
ing in loaded shells, and is acknowledged by all as the best device 
for carrying shells to be found in the market. 
This 6elf gives perfect ventilation to the chest. 
Address 
PARKER BROS., 
West Meriden, Conn. 
In ordering belts give the loose measure around waist orer vest. 
Maynard’s Patent. 
Breech-Loading Rifles and Shot Guns. 
CENTRAL FIRE 
O ombination .A.rms, 
WITH BE-LOADIN6 CAPPED CABTBlDeES. 
For convenience, accuracy and penetration unequ tiled. Send for 
price-list and target representations. 
MASSACHUSETTS ARMS CO., 
CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS 
Targets Made 
WITH 
Maynard Rifles. 
HALF 61ZE. 
Ten Ctmsccntive Sliots. 
Twenty and Ten Rodi*. 
William Read & Sons^ 
13 FAXELTL HALL SQUARE, BOSTON, 
agents for 
W. & G. Scott & Sons^ 
B BEECH- LOA I) I XG G U X ! 
WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL GUN TRIAL. 
Also Westley Richards, Greener, Webley, Moore and 
others. 
A genuine Scott Muzzle-Loading Double Gun, $25 up. 
Maynard, Ballard, Remin^on and Sharp Rifles. ! 
Ballard’s Breech-Loading Sporting Rifles, $18!. 
B ussey’s GYRO PIGEON TRAP for shooting practice 
Send for circulars. 
The Stuxrtevant Loader^ 
By rendering the process of filling shells 
SAFE. SIMPLE, R.VPID AND E.iSY, 
Removes the greatest objection to breech-loading guns. 
Tbis] implement fills ehells (pa- 
per or meuUic), of any length and 
calibre; punches off caps, turns 
over paper shells, and a type 
stamps upon the wad the size of 
shot used. The charges are drawn 
by a thumb-screw, and instantly 
removable. No shot is scattered 
or powder spilled. The wads 
ara placed with nnnsual firmness 
and accuracy. This loader is 8H 
nches long, and is of the sim- 
plest character, with no springs 
or parts liable to break or get out 
of repair. 
Price of Loader (see Plate) $5.00 
“ Type ** 1 20 
‘‘ Punch “ 2 for Siurtevant Shells, 3 for other 
shells, each 20 
** Bashing “ 4 for changing calibre 25 
“ Turnover “ 5 to turn over paper shells 50 
LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE. 
Send for Circular, and order of 
BENJAMIN JONES. 
■» SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON’, Mass. 
, TO SPORTSMEN 
Desiring Fine English Guns 
Bmil-t to Order. 
For many years past our specialty 
has been building FINE GUNS to the 
order of individual sportsmen. 
ABBEY & IMBRIE, 
SUCCESSORS TO 
ANDREW CLERK & CO., 
48 Maiden Lane, New York. 
IMPORTERS, MAia’FACTURERS AND DEALERS IN' 
FISPIIlsrC 3 - TACKLE. 
On hand the largest and best assortment ever exhibited in the 
United Slates. They particularly call attention to their 
TROUT, SALMON AND BASS RODS. 
The difficulty of procuring a gun ready made that will 
suit the figure, and at the same time meet all the other 
requirements of the sportsman, as in Weu/ht, Gauge, 
Length, Bend, Style, Shooting Powers, and Price, causes 
the majority of first-class shots to have their guns built to 
special order. The great drawback heretofore to this 
method of procuring a FINE GUN has been the extrava- 
gant and fancy prices charged for such work. To -over- 
come this difficulty we have established a house in New 
York, thus enabling sportsmen to trade direct with the 
gun maker. We are now prepared to accept from sports- 
men orders to build FINE Guns of any desired measure- 
ment, atour list prices, which we forward with illustrated 
description of our guns on application. 
J. & W. TOLLEY, 
(PIONEER WORKS.) 
Birmingham, England. 
BRANCH HOUSE 29 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 
N. B.— Extra close ahootieg may be had if desired at same prices. 
SPORTSMEN! 
Have ror peen THE NEW SHELL, with , 
•< SLOTTED HEAD” and BERDAN PRIMER? 
IE SOT, 
SEND FOR A SAMPLE. 
And hereafter you will 
Use No Other Shell!! 
These Shells with slotted heads are so constructed as to enable 
spor'smen easily to remove the exploded caps from the outside with 
any pointed instrament — even a common pocket-knife will do the 
work successfully. Once seen Sjfortstnen will use no ot er shell, as 
it obviates all tronble with broken down anvils, broken points in 
c-tp ejectors, holes punched through caps, screw head shells that 
corrode and cannot be unscrewed after a little use. In a word, it 
XNill snpercede all other shells now in use. 
PRICE $3 00 PER DOZEX. 
Sample Shell by mall 25 cis. Address 
PARKER BROTHERS, 
West Meriden, Conn. 
Every variety of Salmon and Trout Flies, and Hooks on Gut: 
Chittybank and Pasqne Is ands Bass Lines; Waterproof Braided 
bilk Lines: every size and quality of 
SILK, LINEN AND COTTON LINES; 
And every variety and etyle of 
!FIooks. 
Parties fitted out with appropriate Tackle for the Rocky Moon- 
tains and the Pacific Coast, Canada, Maine, the Adirondacks etc. 
SPLIT BAMBOO. TROL'T AND SALMON RODS 
AND REELS A SPECIALTAT. 
Aeeuts for the St. Lawrence Fishing Co. Soie Importers of 
Warrm's Celebrated Drilled Eyed Needles. 
P^igeon Traps. 
PARKBR’^S 
PATENT SELF-CLOSING 
and "'T” 
PLlXGi: TBAPS. 
These traps are made aficr the style of the regular plunge traps, 
with the addiiiopal improvement— which is patented- of so con- 
necting the covers with the plnnger, on which the bird eiis, and 
from which he is thrown when the trap is operated, as to close them 
when the plunger falls to place, and by its weight holds t^em down, 
so that it 18 impossible for a bird to open the covers and escape, as 
is often the case with other plunge traps. The special ‘advantages 
claimed are that the 
* TIME AND BIRDS SAATID 
during a single season's use of 
JOHIM P. LOWRR^ 
SPORT85IEN’S DEPOT, 381 BLAKE ST., 
DElsTVEP?., COL. 
A fall assortment of various kinds of 
GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS, AMMUNITION, SPORTING GOODS, 
FISHING TACELE, CUTLERY, ETC., 
Colt's. Smith A Wesson’s, and other cartridee revolvers. Sharps, 
Wesson's, Winchester and RemioKton’s Rifies. Breech-Loadine, 
double and single guns. Ely's shells, wads, caps, powder, shot, etc. 
Indian beads, ornaments and cariosities, at lowest market prices. 
Agent for the sale of Parker's Breech- Loading Shot Guns. 
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 
STBOXG AXD DVBABLE. 
Each trap has an 
Extra Water-Tight Box 
outside the box, which protects the plunger, 
WITH COVER FOR THE S.AME, 
thus enablmg the sportsman to set the trap firmly in the grouni and 
remove it at any time, leaving the outside box, with cover, on the 
field. 
PRICE, $25 PER PAIR. 
\ pair sent by freight or express on receipt of the price. 
PARKER BROS., 
West iltriden, Conn. 
Ptecommeiid.a.t.ioiis ; 
From Capt. H. BOG.ARDUS, Champion Wing Shot of America: 
“ I reckon your pigeon trap away above all other traps I ever saw. 
It is bandy to use and sure to work, I tell everybody I meet that 
it is the only trap that ought to be used.” 
A. H. Bogardus. 
LefoKf Breecli-LoaderSi 
DOUBLE BARREL BREECH-LOADING SHOT 
GUNS AND RIFLES. 
Single Barrel Breech Loading Shot Guns, the strongest and best 
ever made for either light or the heaviest Jdnd of Duck aud Deer 
Shooting. Also Single Barrel Breech-Loading Rifies. 
Muzzle-Loaders Altered to Breech-Loaders. 
Any good muzzle-loader can be changed to a breech-loader, mak- 
ing as strong, good, and good-look'Dg gun aa a new breech-loader. 
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed with every gun altered These guns 
are conceded, where known, to have the strongest fastening, the 
best action, to be the best handling, the closest and hardest shoot- 
ing. a^d the cheapest guns before the public. Locks are made re- 
bounding. when desir^. For catalogue and price list, address. 
I-. BARBER A: CO., 51 Clinton St., SYKACUSE, N. Y. 
Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks. 
The only Complete and Reliable Guide to the delightful Fishing and 
Hunting Grounds of 
THE GREAT NEW YORK WILDERNESS. 
NEWLY REVISED EDITION. 
Handsome 12 mo., flexible covers, red and gold, maps, etc. About 
300 pages. Beautifully illustrated. Fnce $200. May be obtained 
of any book-i'eller, or will be mailed, post paid, on receipt of price, 
by WAVERLY PUBLISHING CO., 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Extract from a private letter received from IIon. A. C. Ma.itoon: 
*• What can 1 say that will convey to the trap shooters of this 
country a clearer idea of the excellence and superiority of vour 
Patent Self-Closiue Pigeon Trap over any other pigeon trap that we 
have seen, than to men'ion the fact that I have witnessed the shoot- 
ing of nearly twenty tbonsand birds from those traps at our late 
coO vention, and cannot now call to mind a single instance when 
ihe 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 YEHE ADOPTED 
BY THE 
NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATIOX, 
at their annual convention, held at Batavia June, 1873, as will be 
seen by the following letter: 
In answer to yonr favor of the ITtb. regarding the action of the 
Association about the self-closing improvement to plunge traps, I 
would say that this Association has adopted them and engag' d Mr. 
Knapp to add to the eight traps, now owned by the Association, 
this self-closing improvement Yours, respectfully. 
Jobs B. Sage, Sec. N. Y. S. Assoc' n ” 
OsLUL-tionl 
Gentlemen purchasing Shooting Coats are warned against an 
inferior article bearing my name. Be sure to get the genuine Hola- 
hird Waterproof Coat. W. H. HOLABLRD. 
Valparaiso, Ind . 
