NOV. 22, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
669 
Du Pont Gun Club. 
Wilmington, Del., November 15, 1913. 
In the regular miss and out event the best scores 
were made by J. H. Minnick, S. A. Reis, William 
Coyne, and D. S. Wood. 
The scores in the Frank L. Connable Cup contest 
in detail are: 
W. C. Corey, 16 yds. 9 
Wm. Coyne, 22 yds. 15 
H. W. Bush, 22 yds. 15 
S. A. Reis, 18 yds. 21 
W. A. Joslyn, 22 yds. 21 
W. M. Hammond, 22 yds. 19 
J. H. Minnick, 22 yds. 17 
J. W. Anderson, 20 yds. 18 
E. 1 . LaBraume, 16 yds. 9 
H. P. Carlon, 22 yds. 17 
D. S. Wood, 20 yds. 15 
W. G. Wood, 22 yds. 13 
S. J. Neuman, 20 yds. 17 
C. T. Martin, 22 yds. 19 
Stanley Tuchton, 20 yds. 19 
Clyde Leedom, 20 yds. 15 
John E. Miller, 16 yds. 11 
L. P. Mahoney, 16 yds. 4 
E. C. McCune, 16 yds. 15 
S. G. David, 16 yds. 9 
Other scores made in regular 16 yards event. 
G. R. Clark . 21 
Wm. Coyne . 24 
E. R. Galvin . 24 
Yv'. M. Hammond . 24 
J. W. Anderson, Jr. 23 
Dr. A. Patterson . 15 
E. C. McCune . 15 
S. A. Reis . 20 
W. G. Wood . 22 
W. C. Corey . 19 
Ed. White . 22 
T. E. Doremus . 22 
W. A. Joslyn . 23 
Dr. H. Betts . 18 
Stanley Tuchton . 22 
Edw. G. F. White, the Du Pont Professional from 
Ottawa, Ont., was on hand and broke 91 x 100, the 
high score of the day. Edw. wound up with 25 straight. 
G. R. Clark of Duluth, Minn., was a visitor. Mr. 
Clark is ordinarily a ninety-three or four percenter, but 
has been ill for six months, and was not shooting up to 
his usual form. 
John Minnick led the Miss and Out shooters, mak¬ 
ing a run of eight. John goes gunning for two weeks, 
and was picking up a little practice. Better stay, John, 
and help us out in the shoot with Camden. 
The rain baffled most of the shooters, as some of 
the best of them fell down. 
After an absence of several weeks, A. H. Lobb was 
with us again. Mr. Lobb was trying out a new gun, 
and don’t see how he can miss them when he gets used 
to it. 
J. W. Anderson was there with a 23. 
Wm. Coyne broke 24, and declared the other one 
slid through the pattern. No one else saw the hole on 
the pattern, but were willing to take Mr. Coyne’s word 
for it. 
Schuyler Colfax wasn’t out to-day. Last week he 
couldn’t hit them in the Miss and Out, and said some 
one stole the choke out of his gun. He is still looking 
for it. 
W. C. Corey, one of our new members broke 19 x 25. 
Stanley Tuckton, winner of the Westy Hogan Special 
got 22. 
Sol Reis had his eye on them all day. 
W. G. Wood and T. E. Doremus shot into a 22 
also, while Billy Joslyn went his boss one better with 23. 
Mr. Coyne broke 6 in the Miss and Out, his best 
score to date. 
Dudley Wood got 5 straight in the Miss and Out. 
Last week “Dud” connected up with 14 of them before 
missing. 
A. B. Richardson’s 18 still stands as the high water 
mark. 
John E. Miller, Les. P. Mahony and E. C. McCune, 
some of our members with a record for infrequent at¬ 
tendance, were out and shot well. 
Edw. White the professional opened the eyes 01 
the local shooters. After some discussion regarding 
the proposed changes in the rules, and the effect the 
light load would have on the scores, Mr. White went 
out and shot a string of 25 with a load of 2% drams 
of Schultze and 1 oz. of No. 8 shot. Mr. White uses 
for trap work altogether a gun with a 26 in. barrel. 
He broke his 25 straight, and convinced everyone pres¬ 
ent that the light loads “are there if you point the 
gun right.” 
Ed. White was receiving congratulations on his 132 
straight at Bridgeport last Wednesday, and his 97 x 
100 at the Marine & Field Club at New York last 
Saturday. In recognition of the 132 the Du Pont boys 
fixed Ed. up with a paper long run trophy, which 
made a hit with him. 
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Teal Shooting in Western Mexico. 
By W. R. GILBERT. 
I T is surprising what a difficult thing it is 
to obtain from the average Spanish-Ameri- 
can any reliable information as to the sport 
to be obtained in his vicinity. He is always ready 
to declare that game is to be found in abun¬ 
dance, but should the too credulous sportsman 
believe implicitly in his yarns, he will be often 
grievously disappointed. Such was my experi¬ 
ence during a visit to the port of Acapulco. 
The mountains, which in general rise some 
miles back from the coast, here throw out their 
spurs into the Pacific Ocean, inclosing one of the 
fairest natural harbors in the world, to the north 
and south of which stretches an almost unbroken 
chain of fresh-water lagoons, backed by impene¬ 
trable mangrove swamps and separated from the 
sea by long sandy beaches, thrown up by the 
never ending labors of the giant Pacific rollers. 
I had often heard that these lagoons, at certain 
seasons of the year simply swarmed with duck, 
and so, by way of breaking the monotony of a 
stay in this quiet little place, an expedition was 
organized to Coyuca lagoon, some nine miles by 
mule-road to the north. 
Alas! the expedition proved a complete fail¬ 
ure, for, with the exception of one duck, which 
I was lucky enough to obtain from a stray flight, 
a few doves and plovers were all that four guns 
obtained in the course of a hard day’s “hunting,” 
in this case a most fitting word. I had, how¬ 
ever, while on the spot, made use of my scanty 
stock of Spanish to cross-examine one of the 
Indians who seemed more intelligent than his fel¬ 
lows, and arrived at the conclusion that the south¬ 
going flight of ducks made their appearance in 
February, and were to be found in large numbers 
both in March and April, after which they again 
returned to the North. From subsequent expe¬ 
rience I imagine this to be about correct. 
Returning to the port in the month of Feb¬ 
ruary, we dropped anchor beneath the shadow of 
the ancient Spanish fort, the usual anchorage (by 
the gap cut by the Spaniards to allow of the 
sea breezes to blow into the harbor) being occu¬ 
pied. 
Being now well on in the dry season, the coun¬ 
try appeared much less inviting than it had been 
a month earlier, and as our stay was to be very 
short, no time was to be lost. 
Sending ashore at once to procure the neces¬ 
sary mules, provisions, etc., were got ready; 
knives, forks, bread, butter, sugar and cocoa are 
necessary, whilst candles and hammocks are also 
required; also a magazine to hold a couple of 
hundred cartridges, which should be, I think, 
generally enough for two guns for a day’s shoot¬ 
ing, though we did not manage to expend half of 
these. 
Mounting our mules, S. and I lead the van. 
We had equipped ourselves with high-crowned 
Mexican sombreros, the finest possible protection 
against the sun, which is still very hot, though 
almost four o’clock in the afternoon. For the 
rest of our costumes, karki, with canvas leg¬ 
gings, cannot be much improved upon, and it has 
the great advantage of giving no foothold to the 
myriads of ticks and carapatas with which every 
bit of bush or grass abounds in the dry season. 
Next follows the pack mule, who shows a truly 
mule-like desire to bolt down every street except 
the right one. 
The town is soon passed, and the road, which 
for the first two miles is very good, ascends, ever 
upward till we reach the toll gate, where the 
surrounding villages pay the octroi dues. Soon 
after passing the gate, we stand upon the sum¬ 
mit of the hills which inclose the harbor. Be¬ 
hind us lies the blue, land-locked port, edged with 
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