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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 14, 1912 
Hammerless Repeating Shotgun 
This Model 28, 12 gauge Z/Zcrr/Jn shotgun is the finest repeating gun in the 
world. It has every up-to-date feature, perfected far beyond all previous 
standards, and it has exclusive advantages not obtainable in other guns. 
Note these features: Hammerless—Solid Steel 
Breech (inside as well as out) —Solid Top—Side 
Ejection—Matted Barrel (as on our highest grade 
hammer guns) —Press-Button Cartridge Release 
(to remove loaded cartridges quickly from maga¬ 
zine without working through action)-— Double 
Extractors — Take-Down Feature—Trigger and 
Hammer Safety. Price, $22.60. 
Our 160-page Ideal Hand Book tells about re¬ 
loading all cartridges; mailed for 6c. stamps. 
The Model 28 is a fine appearing, beautifully 
balanced gun, without any objectionable humps 
or bumps; its Solid Steel Breech (not a shell of 
wood) permits a thoroughly symmetrical gun 
without sacrificing strength or safety; it is the 
safest breech-loading shotgun ever built. 
Our free circular gives large illustration of gun 
and full description. Our complete 122-page cata¬ 
log of all other fflar/in repeating rifles and shot¬ 
guns mailed for three stamps postage. 
77ie THarf/zi firearms Co 
27 Willow Street, New Haven, Conn. 
New York A. C. 
Pelham Manor, N. Y., Dec. 7.—Dr. Leroy Culver 
was high gun at the New York Athletic Club’s weekly 
shoot at Travers Island to-day with a score of 89 out 
of 100. Seventeen gunners participated in the day’s 
sport, made up of eight events. C. Stein won the dis¬ 
tance handicap and the Held cup; O. C. Grinnell, Jr., 
the Culver cup; T. Lenane, Jr., the Travers Island 
trophy, and C. \Y. Billings the Olympic trophy. 
The leading scores in each event were: 
Distance handicap cup, 25 targets: 
C Stein . 4 25 F A Hodgeman .... 1 
R R Debacher . 6 25 W B Ogden . 2 
Dr E R De Wolfe... 2 24 T Lenane, Jr.5 
W J Simpson .3 23 
Held cup, handicap, 25 targets: 
C Stein . ' W B Ogden . 2 
Dr L Culver .1 25 J J Brandenburg ... 5 
R L Debacher . 6 25 G J Corbett . 1 
1 Lenane, Jr. 5 25 W J Simpson .3 
December cup. handicap: 
W B Ogden . 2 25 C Stein . 2 
C W Billings . 2 25 G J Corbett . 1 
Or E R De Wolfe.. 2 25 Dr L Culver . 1 
Scratch, 100 targets: 
Dr L Culver .0 89 
W B Ogden . 0 87 
Handicap, 100 targets: 
R R Debacher .24 102 
C Stein .16 100 
J J Brandenburg... 20 97 
C Stein . 0 
D F McMahon. 0 
T Lenane, Jr.20 
W B Ogden . 8 
Culver cup. distance handicap yards, 25 targets; 
O C Grinnell, Jr. 20... 22 Dr L Culver, 20. 
W J Simpson, 18. 21 D F McMahon, 20. 
Travers Island trophy. 
T Lenane, Jr. 5 25 
J J Brandenburg.... 5 25 
R R Debacher . 6 25 
handicap, 25 targets: 
D F McMahon . 1 
C W Billings .2 
Or L Culver .1 
Olympic trophy, 
C W Billings . 
Dr E R De Wolfe.. 
handicap, 
. 1 25 
. 1 23 
25 targets: 
F A Hodgman 
R R Debacher 
1 
2 
23 
23 
23 
24 
23 
23 
23 
24 
24 
24 
84 
84 
96 
95 
21 
20 
25 
23 
23 
21 
20 
Buffalo Audubon Club. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 7. —Twenty-one strong, the 
members and friends of the club turned out for the first 
shoot in December. It is getting to be a regular thing 
for Mr. Frank S. Wright to lead, and to-day was no ex¬ 
ception. We were glad to have as visitors to-day, Messrs. 
Kassam, Dickey, Fay and Farrell, who were on their way 
from the International shoot held at St. Thomas, Ont., 
last week. Our club is arranging for a special shoot, 
at which poultry will be the prizes, to be held on the 
Saturday between Christmas and New Years. Scores: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
Targets: 15 20 20 20 25 
Mesmger . 10 16 17 16 20 
Hassam . 9 18 18 IS 21 
Dickey . 13 17 17 14 22 
Wright . 15 17 17 16 23 
Kelsey 
12 16 18 17 18 
Blackmer . 11 17 17 15 20 
Fay . 15 17 18 19 18 
Lbberts . 11 12 15 13 18 
I.ambert . 14 18 19 13 19 
Wacker 
11 16 14 11 
Covert . 14 16 17 16 
19 
21 
Rogers . 12 14 15 17 18 
Ward . 12 20 14 14 17 
Farrell . 10 17 13 14 19 
Immell . 7 13 11 15 19 
Rommel . 13 17 18 19 10 
Smith . 12 12 17 11 19 
Hammond . 14 14 18 18 20 
Seymour . 15 15 18 .. 
Reynolds . 8 .. 15 12 .. 
Wootton . 18 .. 21 
Nos. 4 and 5 were distance handicaps. 
Cincinnati Gun Club. 
The threatening weather of Dec. 8 kept many of the 
shooters from attending the weekly shoot, and only seven 
took part in the events. An incoming wind of con¬ 
siderable velocity made the targets very uneven in their 
flight, and no high scores were recorded. John Schreck 
led the bunch with 87 out of ICO. Hanimerschmidt came 
second with 86. In the first event he used his 20-gauge, 
which, together with the wind, was too much of a han¬ 
dicap, and cut his scores badly. In the next two events 
he broke 94 per cent, of the targets, using his old 12- 
gauge standby.- Ford was the only contestant to go 
straight in any one of the events, and he turned the 
trick in the last 25 targets, going out in third place. 
Erdel and M. H. Johnson shot at 125 each, the latter 
breaking 95 and the former 90. L. Gambell has just 
returned from a week’s hunt in Laurel and Clay coun¬ 
ties, Kentucky, where he and C. C. Regan got over 100 
birds. The next shoot will be held on Dec. 15. 
Targets: 
25 
25 
25 
25 
25 
Total. 
Schreck . 
. 22 
22 
22 
21 
87 
Erdel . 
. 20 
20 
18 
16 
16 
90 
Tohnson . 
. 19 
18 
19 
20 
19 
95 
Ford . 
. 17 
23 
19 
15 
84 
McArdle . 
. IS 
21 
39 
L Gambell . 
. 20 
20 
Perry Victory Centennial Celebration. 
Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—At a meeting of the 
executive committee of the National Rifle Association ot 
America, held here to-day, Col. FI. G. Catrow, third 
Ohio Infantry, was appointed Commissioner General for 
the international matches, which will be held at Camp 
Perry, Ohio, September, 1913, in connection with the 
Perry Victory Centennial celebration. 
A program of the matches was approved, covering 
not only the official matches of the International Union, 
composed of European nations, and the Pan-American 
Lfnion, organized among the republics of the Western 
Hemisphere, and additional matches, open to the world, 
which includes the famous Palma match and a new Pan- 
American match for a two-man team for a trophy pre¬ 
sented by Hon. John Work Garrett, United States Min¬ 
ister to the Argentine Republic, and the new trophy 
voted by the National Guard Association of America at 
its late convention in Norfolk. This trophy will repre¬ 
sent the long range individual military championship of 
the world, calling for 15 shots at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. 
The prizes will amount in all to about $20,000 for the 
international matches alone. 
The State and War Departments are co-operating 
with the National Rifle Association of America in mak¬ 
ing this tournament a success. Invitations are being 
sent to all the nations throughout the world through the 
State Department, and the War Department will manage 
the tournament, detailing the executive officer and range 
officers and soldiers to man the targets. 
Assurances have already been received from France, 
Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Argentine Re¬ 
public, Peru, Canada and Belgium that they were send¬ 
ing delegations to the United States for the shoot. It is 
expected that about twenty-two nations will be repre¬ 
sented. 
The following new clubs were elected to member¬ 
ship in the National Rifle Association: The Overland 
Rifle Association, of Toledo, O.; the New Orleans (La.) 
Rifle Club; the Pottsville (Pa.) Rifle Club; the St. 
Louis-Colonial Club; Monongahela Rifle Club, of Brad- 
dock, Pa.; Watertown (N. Y.) Rifle Club; University 
of Maine Rifle Club; University of Vermont Rifle Club; 
Newton (N. J.) Rifle Club (Academy); Charles City 
(la.) High School Rifle Club; Randolph Military Acad¬ 
emy, of Norristown, N. J., Rifle Club; and the Manual 
Training High School Rifle Club, of St. Louis, Mo. 
The new War Department trophy for the interclub in¬ 
door rifle shooting championship, will be competed for by 
twenty-four clubs. These clubs have been divided into 
two leagues, one representing the Eastern and the other 
the Western. 
NOTES FROM THE GAME PRESERVES. 
a poacher’s feelings when caught. 
When a poacher is engaged in setting a 
snare, ferreting a rabbit burrow, or is just about 
to shoot a pheasant and suddenly finds the game- 
keeper’s hand laid heavily on his collar, his first 
feeling is one of fright. If he is a very old hand, 
fright may not assail him, but anger will, and 
then the poacher is often an ugly customer to 
deal with. Generally, however, he is greatly 
alarmed, and that feeling renders him as clay 
in the hands of a determined keeper. After a 
time his alarm gives way to another feeling, this 
being astonishment that the keeper should have 
managed to catch him. He thought he had laid 
his plans so well and so cleverly ascertained the 
keeper’s movements, that his enemy was in per¬ 
fect ignorance even of the fact that he was a 
poacher. So he puts down his ill fortune to pure 
chance, and considers the fates against him, and 
that the keeper had all the luck. 
the poacher’s first mistake. 
The majority of poachers make the initial mis¬ 
take of regarding the keeper as an easily duped 
fool, and there is no greater error one can fall 
into than underrating the enemy. There is rea¬ 
son to believe, too. that the keeper finds it worth 
while to encourage poachers to consider him a 
fool, for he generally succeeds in convicting 
them once or twice before they take him at his 
real value. The average keeper thoroughly be¬ 
lieves in the old system of allowing poachers an 
inch and dropping on them when they attempt 
the ell, for the ell makes a better case, and the 
punishment they receive for it is more likely to 
have a deterrent effect. It is useless to haul 
poachers continually before a bench of magis¬ 
trates for trivial offenses, and if that course is 
followed there is no possibility of imposing a 
penalty calculated to impress on an offender the 
necessity of mending his ways. 
can the leopard change his spots? 
Poachers go to the greatest trouble in en¬ 
deavoring to conceal from the keeper the fact 
that they do poach, but their efforts are all in 
vain. An experienced keeper, who is a far better 
judge of human nature than many imagine, can 
tell at a glance if any man he meets is inclined 
to poach. Such a person can rarely look the 
keeper straight in the eye, and if lie does, he 
indulges in an insolent stare; his glance at the 
keeper is invariably a furtive one, and nothing- 
more is necessary to show that he has something 
to be ashamed of. Sometimes a poacher seeks 
to deceive the keeper by posing as his staunch 
friend, and will even go so far as to give away 
a mate for the sake of misleading, but the keeper 
sees through it all. 
the poacher’s habits. 
A poacher’s habits and ways are totally dif¬ 
ferent from those of the ordinary country 
dweller, and no one sees this more plainly than 
the keeper. He is obliged to do a good deal 
of patrolling and watching before he feels fairly 
safe to make an attempt at poaching, and this 
