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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jan. II, 1913 
Never Shakes Your Confidence 
D ON’T let your ^ong planned expensive hun¬ 
ting trip be spoiled—spoiled by your gun 
not rising 10 the occasion at the critical moment. 
And you know liow the shortcomings of vour gun 
always show up at the critical moment. After that 
your confidence is gone. 
The Six Hunter brothers have kept on the trail of 
shotgun shortcomings with invention, workmanship 
and Purpose, for 22 years. T. he result is the Smith Gun, 
the gun without a single shortcoming to mar the pleasure 
of the -hunting trip or cheat the game hag of a single bird. 
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duced the Smith bolt that double-wedges through ex¬ 
tension rib and grips tight with a double rotary grip. 
How the Purpose to eliminate inaccessibility brought 
about the Smith “ One-Screw Access ” How the 
Purpose to save loss of aim in fumbling for the 
second trigger evolved the highly successful Hunter 
One-Trigger. And so on through the list. 
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The great question—How far to 
lead?—Is simplified by 
the quickness of 
THE BLACK SHELLS 
Instead of the customary ground glass in the primer 
to absorb 20% of the heat and cool the flame, the ma¬ 
terials in our Non-Mercuric Primer actually increase 
the heat and so hasten the ignition of the main charge. 
Moreover, this hot flame is also a large flame, be¬ 
cause our 100 ^ larger flash-passage permits practi¬ 
cally all of it to rush straight into the main charge. 
Hence, the explosion is so instantaneous, and its 
completeness gives such maximum driving power, 
that you need allow hardly any “lead” on your bird, 
and absolutely no time at all between pulling the 
trigger and the discharge. 
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UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
Dept. H, Lowell, Mass. 
Jersey City Gun Club. 
Jersey City, N. j., Jan. 4. — An unfriendly wind 
paid us a visit to-day and raised the dickens with our 
scores, as it blew a gale until 4 P. M., and by that 
time it was too late to make up the shortage, some of 
the targets going nearly a hundred yards before the wind. 
Only fifteen liad the courage to come out and take a 
crack^at them. Plailinger won tlie high average trophy 
with 78 per cent., which was O.K., considering. George 
Piercy and Harry Burlington were next to him with 75 
per cent. The spoon winners were Shannon, Hallinger 
and Dixon. Dr. Ittner joined our club to-day and shot 
going to stick. The 
Tewes . 
McLemore . 
.^ummerfield 
Piercy . 
Dixon 
Kearney 
Jones .. 
e Dactor was 
in strings of 25 
game, 
and 
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17 
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8 
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15 
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22 
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16 
13 
Jan. 1.—\\ e had a little shoot for the members on Xew 
Year’s I.Iay. Seventeen were out for the fun, several 
of the regulars evidently being too full of turkey to get 
out in time, so decided to postpone their shooting 
until another day. Spoons were the prizes to contest for 
to-day, in five of the events, and in another event a 
solid gold necktie clasp. The spoon winners were Tewes, 
Burlington, Hubbell, l.lixon. Dr. Bogart. Geo. Piercy 
annexed the necktie clasp, and George was also high av¬ 
erage man for the club trophy for the day with 87 per 
cent; and his old-time rival, Dave Engle, was right be¬ 
hind him with 8 G per cent. A unanimous vote elected 
the former celebrated wingshot, Joe Whitley, the gamest 
shooter on the grounds to-day, the same good opinion 
being due to the fact that about three months ago Joe 
took a flying start from the roof of a house he was in¬ 
specting, and landed on a lot of sidewalks, and this was 
the first time he had handled his gun since the fateful 
day. Joe’s right foot is still on a vacation, and he had 
to use his walking stick as a substitute, and even then 
he had to miss .8 out of his last 4 birds in one event to 
lose a spoon. The scores in strings of 25: 
(Teo Piercy .. 
. 23 
21 
22 
21 
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oo 
21 
19 
24 
Hallin-zcr . 
. 16 
20 
14 
20 
22 
17 
19 
19 
Burlington . 
99 
14 
21 
21 
20 
17 
18 
17 
i9 
Tewes . 
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12 
14 
13 
12 
14 
17 
17 
11 
Tlttbbell . 
. 15 
17 
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16 
19 
15 
15 
16 
. 14 
19 
16 
21 
15 
Kearnev . 
. 6 
9 
10 
13 
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14 
10 
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20 
21 
90 
23 
\'an Cott . 
. 8 
7 
10 
7 
13 
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6 
9 
. 18 
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17 
11 
Dr Bogart . 
. 20 
18 
14 
L Piercy . 
. 13 
15 
. 23 
17 
Tones . 
. 16 
14 
10 
12 
Brady . 
. 14 
14 
16 
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Ossining Gun Club. 
Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 1. — Herewith find scores of a 
club shoot held on the Ossining Gun Club grounds 
to-day. Event No. 1 was won by Blandford, which gave 
him second win for the White Plains cup. Events Nos. 
2 and 3 made 50 targets for prizes. Bedell, Lyon and 
\\'ood were high with 44 and drew for choice, reverse 
to the order named. Blandford got fourth with 43, then 
came Hyland, Hubbell and Kipp. Coleman, an old ex¬ 
member, showed the stuff he was made of by copping 
first money in Event No. 4, which was a $1 sweep. 
Dr. R. J. Owen made his debut as a target smasher 
and shovved he was some little shot by plastering 13 out 
of 25. The scores; 
Events: 
Targets: 
1 2 3 4 5 
25 25 25 25 25 
21 22 22 
18 22 
C G Blandford . 22 22 21 23 
A Bedell 
G B Hubbell . 14 1 
L F Lyon . 21 21 23 
T T Hyland . 21 19 19 
■p R VVood . 21 20 24 
W S Smith . 15 15 18 .. .. 
W H Coleman . 20 18 21 25 17 
S A Kipp . 19 14 .. 
W Burdick . 12 
Dr R J Wren . 13 
C. G. B. Capt. 
18 19 
21 .. 
Independent Gun Club. 
Easton, Pa., Jan. 1.—The Independent Gun Club 
held its annual pig’eon shoot on its grounds here to-day. 
There was a good attendance of shooters, as vyell as a 
large crowd of onlookers. . h:; v/eather was ideal^ for 
shooting, and the birds were a good lot of flyers. Weiss 
was high gun, killing his ten birds straight, with 
Maurer, May and Barclay following close with nine 
each. Below are the scores: 
Event No. 1, ten birds each: Elliott 7, Hell 8 , 
Tilaurer 9. Crass 8 , Ivey 8 , Wenner 5, Kelechner 7, Brein- 
inger 8 , Sandt S, Stires 7. May 9, Weiss 10, Barclay 9, 
E. Warner 6 , \V'. Warner 5. 
Event No. 2, miss-and-out: Heil 4, Maurer 1, Cross 
1, Ivey 2, Wenner 2, Kelechner 2, Sandt 2, Stires 2, 
Weiss 1, Barclay 2, E. Warner 3, P. Warner 2. Gamier 4. 
AT DENVER, 1912 
HANDICAP, SEPT. 10-13 
Mr. R. H. Bruns, shooting his 
LEFEVER 
made the marvellous run of 
283 without a miss. 
On the 700 single targets, in¬ 
cluding handicaps, Mr. Bruns 
scored 683 out of 700. 
The second day of the tourna¬ 
ment on the day’s program of 
200 targets, Mr. Bruns and 
his Lefever gun scored 200 
out of 200. A world’s re¬ 
cord for ten traps. 
On the 500 single 16-yard 
target for amateurs, Mr. Bruns 
scored 494 out of 500. 
ANOTHER WINNER AT THE 
PACIFIC COAST HANDICAP 
Mr. L. H. Reid, shooting his Lefever gun, won 
second high average with 381 out of 400, 
Why don’t you shoot a LEFEVER? 
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Guns of Lasting Fame 
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