FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream Is an Honorary Member of the Interstate Association for the Promotion of Trapshooting. 
BIG GAME RIFLES 
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G ET your rifle dope from tlie old stagers wko use 
tkeir rifles montli in, montli out—and what you 
hear nowadays will he mostly Remington UJYlC. 
Each ''open season the prestige of Remington UMC High 
Power Rifles reaches a new high mark. 
Here are the JVlodern Arms use d hy seasoned sportsmen today: 
Remington UMC High Power Autoloading Rifle —Five shots, simply press 
trigger for each shot; solid breech; hammerless, positive safety devices; 
take-down, simple and easy without tools. 
Remington UMC High Power Slide Action Ref eater —Six shots; solid breech; 
hammerless; magazine ensuring compactness, balance and absolute safety. 
Ask where to get the best guns, ammunition, sporting equipment in any 
town or city today, and sportsmen will direct you to the dealer that features 
these rifles—the Red Ball Mark of Remington UMC on a store is the Sign 
of Sportsmen's Headquarters everywhere. 
Clean and oil your gun with REM OIL, the combina¬ 
tion Powder Solvent, Lubricant and Rust Preventative 
THE REMINGTON ARMS UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. 
Largest Manufacturers of Firearms and Ammunition in the World 
^^oolworth Building, New York 
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Edited by Fred. O. Copeland. || 
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11 trapshooting, approaches. May the added ff 
|| skill, acquired over another summer at the || 
|| traps, walk with you on the marsh, on the M 
|| prairie, in the uplands. || 
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"THE LITTLE JOKER". 
URING the last few years there has been 
inaugurated an added amusement at the 
tournaments of the Interstate Association. 
It has been termed The Little Joker and takes the 
form of a tiny trap house accommodating two 
expert traps with hand lines running back to 
the puller who sits on the ground in readiness to 
spring the surprises that the little trap house cer¬ 
tainly does contain. The shooting is done from 
the regular distance but with only one man up. 
All of the targets thrown are extremely nimble, 
surpassing by far anything the regular traps 
throw. Just enough normal targets are thrown 
—so far as elevation and angles go—to keep the 
contestant in a constant state of surprise. The 
Joker targets are worthy of their name. They 
consist for the most part of almost perpendicu¬ 
lar targets that rush up with the peculiar whistle 
of a sky rocket and it takes extremely sure judg¬ 
ment coupled with a high lead to get them for 
they are close in and when hit are completely 
obliterated. The two other characteristic tar¬ 
gets are the left and right quartering birds which 
tear away hardly clearing the ground and the 
fastest shooters can kill them only after they are 
far away. It is impossible to snuff out one of 
these targets as is often the case with the regu¬ 
lar quartering targets and they break in a few 
pieces if at all. It is a common sight to see a 
seasoned trapshooter miss them quite regularly 
and again some of the super-amateurs run io 
straight but not with ease even when they are 
in good form. 
The method of procedure at the Joker Trap, 
which is placed in a quiet place away from the 
regular traps, is as follows: A contestant may 
buy three chances for $i. If a contestant breaks 
10 straight, which is the limit, one of his chances 
is gone. As soon as a shooter misses one target 
one of his chances is used up, and, of course, 
when the three are used he is ready for another 
dollar’s worth, but as the trap is very popular 
it usually happens that the contestant is willing 
to seat himself carefully to one side and enjoy 
a double pleasure; that of watching another hope¬ 
ful miss them, and that of reflecting on his lost 
youth when to his regret he skimmed swiftly 
over geometry, angles and such things. 
EMPTY SHELLS ARE WORTH MONEY. 
Gun clubs will find their empty shells are worth 
money if they will gather them up after each 
shoot, and sell them when they get a barrel or 
so. A gun club secretary informed us a few 
days ago that he had secured 95 pounds of brass 
from two barrels of empty shells. The brass he 
sold at 11 cents per pound, or $10.45 for the lot, 
proving that it surely pays to save and sell the 
empty shells. 
In another market the empty shells have 
dropped to $3 per barrel. 
Not many years ago there were very few trap¬ 
shooting tournaments in the summertime; now 
the tournaments occur all the time, in fact, there 
is as much shooting in the summer months as 
there is in the winter season. 
