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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 8, 1913 
High Gun 
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 Lefevef gun, won 
second high average with 381 out of 400. 
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SHOOTING IN i8i8. 
Concluded from page 170. 
a deputation, shall be found in pursuit of game, 
with gun, dog, or net, or other engine for the 
destruction of game, or taking or killing there¬ 
of, and shall be required to shew his certificate, 
by the lord or lady of the manor, or proprietor 
of the land whereon such person shall be using 
such gun, etc., or by any duly appointed game- 
keeper, or by any qualified or certified person, 
or by any officer of the stamps, properly author¬ 
ized by the commissioners, he shall produce his 
certificate; and if such person shall refuse, upon 
the production of the certificate of the person 
requiring the same, to shew the certificate 
granted to him for the like purpose; or in case 
of not having such certificate to produce, shall 
refuse to tell his Christian and surname, and his 
place of residence, and the name of the county 
where his certificate was issued, or shall give in 
any false or fictitious name, he shall forfeit 50/. 
Id. Certificates do not authorize any person to 
shoot at, kill, take, or destroy any game at any 
time that is prohibited by law, nor give any 
person a right to shoot at, etc., unless he be 
duly qualified by law'. Id. No certificate ob¬ 
tained .under any deputation shall be pleaded or 
given in evidence, where any person shall shoot 
at, etc., any game out of the manors or lands 
for which it w'as given. The royal family are 
exempted from taking out certificates for them¬ 
selves or their deputies. Id. The duty on these 
certificates are now, by an act which is at present 
passing the House, to be had through the col¬ 
lectors of the assessed taxes. The above is the 
law now in force. Besides having a certificate, 
each person to kill game must be qualified by 
having a certain estate. The last general quali¬ 
fication (to use the words of Dr. Burn, though 
in fact it is the first of the acts relative to the 
game ever now put in force) by estate or de¬ 
gree, to kill game, is 22, 23 Charles II. c. 25. 
This enacts, that every person not having lands 
or tenements of the clear yearly value of too/, 
or on leases for 99 years, or upward, of the 
clear yearly value of 150/. or except the eldest 
son and heir of an esquire, or person of higher 
degree, or owners of forests, parks, etc., in re¬ 
spect of such forest, park, etc., is not qualified 
for himself or any other person, to keep guns, 
bows, greyhounds, etc., c. 3. This merely states 
the qualification ; the penalties and modes of pro¬ 
ceeding are entirely changed by subsequent acts; 
and first, by 5 Ann, c. 14, which directs that all 
former acts not thereby repealed and altered 
continue in force. With respect to offenses 
against the game laws, we shall here enumerate 
those chiefly which fall under the cognizance 
of justices of the peace out of sessions, premis¬ 
ing, that for brevity sake the following abbre¬ 
viations are used : viz.; P. denotes the penalty; 
R. the mode of recovery; A. the application of 
it; Ap. the appeal; J. i or 2 and W. i or 2, that 
one or tw'o justices may convict, or that one or 
two witnesses must prove the offense; and in 
treating of the several statutes on this head we 
shall consider, i. what relates to game exclu¬ 
sively; 2. what relates to other quadrupeds; and, 
3. other birds which, though ferae naturae, are 
sometimes reclaimed, and private property. 
Every higler, chapman, victualler, carrier, 
etc. who shall have in his possession any hare, 
pheasant, partridge, moor-game, etc., or offer 
to sell any such (except sent by a person quali¬ 
fied to kill game), P. 5/. for each piece; R. dis¬ 
tress, and in default commitment three months; 
J. I. Stat. 5. Ann, c. 14, s. 2. 
Persons not qualified to keep dogs, engines, 
etc., to destroy game, P. 5/.; R. as above; A. half 
to the informer, half to the poor. Justices, lords 
of manors, and gamekeepers, may take away the 
game, dogs, guns, etc.. 
Gamekeeper selling, or otherwise disposing 
of such game, without consent of the lord of the 
manor, P. three months imprisonment; convic¬ 
tion as above. Ibid. s. 4. 
Killing game in the night, i. e., between 
seven in the night and six in the morning, from 
Oct. 12 to Feb. 12; and between nine at night 
and six in the morning, from Feb. 12 to Oct. 12; 
or at any time on a Sunday or Christmas Day, 
P. from lol. to 20/. for the first offense, and from 
20I. to 30/. for the second; conviction as above, 
to be within one month. 13 Geo. III. c. 80, s. 
I, 2, 3, 9. In case of a third offense, P. com¬ 
mitment to the session, unless he become bound 
with two sureties to appear; prosecutor to be 
bound to prosecute {Ibid. s. i.) ; application of 
penalties, half to the informer, half to the poor; 
R. distress, and in default, commitment three 
calendar months. Ap. sessions. Ibid. s. 4. 
More than two persons going out with guns, 
nets, etc., to destroy game, between eight at 
night and six in the morning, from Oct. i to 
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Feb. I; or between ten at night and four in 
the morning, between Feb. i and Oct. lo; or any 
person found with firearms or other weapons; 
may be apprehended by owners, keepers, etc., 
who shall deliver them to a peace officer, to be 
taken before a justice; or if they cannot be ap¬ 
prehended, the justice, on information on oath, 
may issue his warrant; P. deemed a rogue and 
vagabond, and to suffer accordingly. 39, 40 Geo. 
HI. c. 50. 
Killing, or having in possession, any par¬ 
tridge, between Feb. i and Sept, i, or any pheas¬ 
ant, between Feb. i and Oct. i, P. 5/. for each 
bird; R. action in the courts of Westminster. 
2 Geo. III. c. 19. 
Killing, or having in possession, any black 
game, from Dec. 10 to Aug. 10 (in New Forest, 
from Dec. 10 to Sept, i, by 43 Geo. III. c. 34) ; 
or any red game, from Dec. 10 to Aug. 12; or 
bustard, from March i to Sept, i: P. 10/. to 2ol. 
first offense, and 20I. to 30/. for every subse¬ 
quent offense; R. distress and sale, if not forth¬ 
with paid, and the offender may be detained till 
the return of the distress, unless he gives se¬ 
curity to appear again in five days; for want of 
distress, commitment from three to six calendar 
months, or till paid with costs; J. i; W. i; A. 
half to the informer, half to the poor; Ap. ses¬ 
sions, to be holden within four calendar months 
after the cause of complaint, giving fourteen 
days’ notice to the justice, and every other per¬ 
son concerned, and entering into recognizance. 
