Oct. 19, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
505 
WHEN EVERY TARGET COUNTS 
Be Sore—= 
Your Load Is Right 
The Post Season Tournament at Cincinnati This Week Will 
Decide Who Wins 
HIGH AMATEUR AVERAGE 
=-= and = 
HIGH PROFESSIONAL AVERAGE 
for 1912 
Watch the scores in next week’s issue of this paper 
The following were the leaders among the professionals when the 
Post Season Tournament commenced, having shot at 1 200 targets 
in the Southern, Eastern and Western Handicap Tournaments. 
W. R. Crosby.1 169 ex 1 200 —97.4 per cent. 
W. H. Heer.1164 ex 1200-97 “ “ 
George Maxwell.1 162 ex 1200—96.8 
L. S. German.1 160 ex 1200—96.6 
(A total of 4655 ex 4800, or just one target less than 97 per cent.) 
They All Shot Either 
DU PONT-or-SCHULTZE 
Note: —When Mr. W. A. Davis won the Annual Chicago Gun Club 
Championship on October 6th, finishing with a run of 1 03 straight, and 
shooting out a very classy field, he shot 3/4 drams of Schultze. 
What Powder Do You Shoot? 
five shots preliminary to firing his score in the match 
on the night of the contest. A judge appointed by the 
N. R. A. will act as executive officer of the match; he 
will appoint a witness, and both will certify on the back 
of the target that they witnessed the shooting, and that 
all conditions were lived up to. At the close of each 
match the results will be at once telegraphed to the office 
of the N. R. A., or manager for that district, and an 
official report blank filled out and mailed at once to 
headquarters. All entries received will be divided into 
leagues, containing not more than twelve clubs, so that 
the matches will not extend longer than three months. 
The winning teams of each league will shoot off for the 
championship. Entrance, $10 per team; one team only 
allowed to a club. To the club winning first place will be 
awarded the National trophy, to be held for one year, 
or until the next competition, and ten medals, to go to 
the ten men shooting in the greatest number of con¬ 
tests. To the team winning second place will be given 
ten medals under the same conditions. The winning 
team will also receive a “certificate of victory,” to be 
retained by the club. 
Entries will close on Dec. 1, and the matches will 
begin as soon after that as the arrangements can be 
perfected. Entries should be made to Lieut. Albert S. 
Jones, Secretary, National Rifle Association of America, 
1025 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. 
GAME IN NORTHWESTERN WYOMING. 
Continued from page 487. 
pelicans I was much interested in. The ospreys 
and pelicans often drew a blank when they dove; 
the kittiwakes almost never. The pelicans and 
kittiwakes always fished in fairly deep water; 
the ospreys always in shallow. Once in a while 
an osprey would stick his claws into a fish too 
large to lift, and he would then have a great 
struggle to get himself loose again, but no such 
mistakes were made by the others. I could never 
see that any of them got many trout. The prin¬ 
cipal prey was apparently suckers and squaw - 
fish, doubtless because easiest to catch, as they 
were extremely plentiful. The fish-ducks and 
blue herons are perhaps the worst enemies trout 
have, except the cannibals of their own species, 
and they should be destroyed remorselessly. 
They are. however, rather difficult to kill, owing 
to their wariness. 
The only trout in these waters was origi¬ 
nally the common Rocky Mountain black-spotted. 
In Jackson Lake these attain a size so great 
that I do not care to say here what it is, for 
it would not be readily believed. About fifteen 
years ago some numskull dumped a lot of Michi¬ 
gan lake trout into Shoshone Lake in the Na¬ 
tional Park, and thence they spread rapidly 
throughout all the tributaries of the Snake, and 
are exterminating the indigenous species. This 
is too bad, for the lake trout are not comparable 
to the natives either as regards sport or the 
table. They will not rise to the fly, are not 
gamy fighters, and are cannibals pure and sim¬ 
ple. I have caught them weighing several 
pounds with stomachs stuffed with trout fry not 
over two inches long. Between them and the 
disturbance incident to the irrigation works built 
by the Reclamation Service at the fort of Jack- 
son Lake, fly-fishing in the Snake, which used 
to be the best I ever knew or heard of, has been 
practically ruined. It is more pleasure to catch 
one good brook trout than a dozen of such logy 
sharks as are here pictured, in the hands of 
J. W. R., boss of a logging camp, operating last 
summer on Jackson Lake, getting out timber for 
the Reclamation Service. These trout are called 
Mackinaw in that locality, but whether they are 
the true species of that name I do not know. 
The real Lake Michigan trout reaches ioo pounds 
in weight; the largest specimen thus far caught 
in Shoshoni, or Jackson Lakes or tributaries, 
weighed sixteen and one-half pounds. 
Close to my camp for several weeks there 
lurked a little cock ruffed grouse, as tame al¬ 
most as a domestic chicken. One day I tried 
to get his photograph, and in the attempt learned 
something of a bird’s innate wisdom. When I 
began to unlimber my kodak, he was in the clear, 
and while my activity did not frighten him, it 
made him uneasy, and though he did not attempt 
to fly or run away, he moved his position by a 
few steps. So far as my eyes could discern, the 
change made not the slightest difference in his 
visibility, but the picture appended herewith told 
a different story. It is surely strange that he 
should have known the difference; perhaps he 
didn’t, but I suspect he did, for nearly every live 
creature in the wilds knows something of the 
protection which color in a background may give. 
In the four weeks I spent here alone I took 
no life except of a few trout, and left the coun¬ 
try and its denizens as I found them. The lust 
for killing has small excuse; all the more in these 
days when so little game remains. I must con¬ 
fess, however, that though the trout were the 
finest and fattest that 1 ever saw anywhere, I 
reached a point of satiety at which I could not 
bear the taste or smell of them, and actually got 
a good deal below par from sheer lack of nitro¬ 
genous food. 
It is immensely to the credit of Wyoming 
that a game preserve of liberal dimensions should 
have been created. The State has undoubtedly 
more game than any other, yet it was the first, 
I believe, to take action of this kind, and it is 
