FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream is an Honorary Member of 
the Interstate Association for the Promotion of 
Trapshooting. 
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Edited by Fred. O. Copeland. 
r 'HERE is a charm in the days now 1 
upon us, a peacefulness in the long | 
1 twilight heralded by the evening star | 
| back in the sky. It is true, there are days \ 
| when the rain conies patt’rin’ down, but | 
| the sportsman, unlike those who do not | 
| feel the pull of the woods, seeks this op- I 
| portunity to sit in the doorway with the \ 
f old corncob pipe a-lit and he finds little l 
1 meaning in the popular christening “mel- | 
| ancholy.” There is a choice of thought: | 
| the reminiscence of the qreenery of late | 
1 September and the gold of October, or f 
| the anticipation of that wonderful, fleeting | 
| Indian summer. And who may say the I 
| sportsman is not best suited by nature to 1 
| receive its benediction when in this dreamy 1 
1 and magical interval the year seems to | 
| have “borrowed every season’s charm to l 
1 end its days in gladness”! 
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WHAT IS POWDER FOULING? 
T HE user of firearms experiences three dif¬ 
ferent and distinct shocks in the matter 
of ammunition when he goes through the 
cycle from empty gun to dead bird; the shock 
at the time of purchase, the shock at the instant 
of firing, and the shock produced when he looks 
through a barrel that has been left several 
weeks without its having been cleaned. 
Let us forget the pain of the first shock, the 
happiness of the second one, and concern our¬ 
selves about the last one. It goes without saying 
that the true lover of good guns does every¬ 
thing in his power to keep the inside of the tube 
clean. Leaving aside the important matter of 
the gun’s accuracy, he takes pride and feels a 
satisfaction in seeing the bore reflect light not 
unlike a mirror. While the mechanical process 
of cleaning is common knowledge, the chemistry 
of cleaning out fouling is perhaps not so well 
known nor so necessary to be known but it 
is somewhat interesting. 
What is this ash, this fouling, that is formed 
from the combustion of the powder at the high 
temperature of explosion and which we so as¬ 
siduously remove after a hard day at the traps 
or in the field? These residues from different 
powders consist of mineral salts and carbonates. 
School days are past for many of us and perhaps 
the digression will be pardoned if it is called to 
mind that a mineral salt or a carbonate is 
formed when an acid gives up part of its ele¬ 
ments for a metal. All powders containing nitro 
glycerine give an acid residue. Such powders 
are DuPont, Ballistite, Infallible, Bullseye and 
Lesmok—the powder commonly used to load .22 
cal. ammunition. Schultze, Dead Shot, O. K., 
and powders of this type give an alkaline residue. 
In the process of cleaning we brush out and 
polish away most of the residue in the barrel 
but enough remains to do damage if we go no 
further with the cleaning. How much remains 
may be seen when a “solvent” for nitro powder 
is liberally wiped onto the seemingly clean and 
shining bore and allowed to remain two or three 
(Continued on page 1258.) 
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casters in the recent National Tournament at 
Newark, N. J The Chicago Fly Casting Club 
won the National five-man team cup and many 
individual cups were also won by members of 
this club. 
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teen-year old boy of Winona, Minn., caught a 
sixty-seven pound catfish a short time ago in 
the Mississippi River. Reports of catfish weigh¬ 
ing seventy-two and seventy-seven pounds re¬ 
spectively have also been caught in this river 
during the past summer. 
