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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. 5, 1911. 
Broke The Program Straight! 
“150 UNFINISHED” 
At the 
Western Connecticut 
Trap-Shooters’ League Tournament 
DANBURY, CONN., JULY 22, 1911 
Mr. Lester S. German, of 
Aberdeen, Md., shot through 
the entire program of 150 
targets 
Without a Miss 
In giving this remarkable 
exhibition of the regularity 
of his load Mr. German used 
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eight, $5; ninth, $5; tenth, $4; eleventh, $4; twelfth to 
fifteenth, $3 each; sixteenth to twentieth, $2 each. 
Premiums for most bullseyes: First prize, $10; second, 
$7; third, $5; fourth, $4; fifth, $3; sixth, $2. 
General Committee: John G. Findeisen, chairman; 
George A. Stone, secretary; William H. Klein, Treas¬ 
urer; Edwin G. Remkus, Oscar Buchholz, Herman 
Buchholz, Jr., Fred C. Ross, Theodore Geisel. 
Shooting Masters: Oscar Buchholz, Fred. C. Ross, 
Theodore R. Geisel. 
At Shell Mound Park. 
Emeryville, Cal., July 25.—Sunday was certainly a 
grand day for good scores, and many sharpshooters 
ventured over to the range to try out their nerves with 
the rifle and pistol. 
Otto A. Bremer was the high man in the San Fran¬ 
cisco Schuetzen Verein with 222 out of 250, German ring, 
10 shots. 
F. P. Schuster made the best center in the bullseye 
shoot of the Germania Schuetzen Club and won first 
prize. 
W. G. Hoffmann made 228 in 10 shots, German ring, 
200yds. C. M. Henderson also made a 22-ring average 
in the Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club. 
On the 50yds. pistol range. J. E. Gorman made two 
scores of 9fi each, C. Pritchard a 95, and R. Mills made 
94, 93, 92, 90. 
The Veterans with the .45 Springfield loomed up in 
good style, and, shooting on the blunt target, made good 
scores. C. Meyer made the good score of 46 out of 50. 
Wm. A. Siebe. 
Rifle and Revolver Notes. 
Capt. W. H. Richards, a sharpshooter, of Bloomdale, 
O., on the night of July 12, between 11:30 and 12 o’clock, 
at Camp Perry, O., made the wonderful score of 94 out 
of a possible 100 at 800yds., finishing his string with 12 
consecutive bullseyes. Capt. Richards made the wonder¬ 
ful record with the aid of the moonlight and a tele¬ 
scope sight attachment, with which his regulation army 
rifle was equipped. The shoot was conducted, it is said, 
under the supervision of Col. L. W. Howard, of Toledo, 
captain of the Ohio State team that will contest in the 
national shoot, which opens on the Camp Perry range on 
Aug. 14. 
The Philadelphia Rifle Association. 
Philadelphia, Pa., July 29.—The weekly competitions 
of this Association were shot to-day, on the Arlington 
range, Lansdowne avenue and Cedar lane, near Llanerch, 
Pennsylvania: 
Record match. 200yds., rifle: M. Forbes, 160, 135. 
Offhand match: J. G. Schnering, 227, 222, 218, 212, 212; 
Williamson, 214, 205, 196. 
Honor target, 3 shots: Williamson 19, 22, 24; total 65. 
Military match; Williamson 44, 44, 43, 42; J. D. Jaques, 
40, 38. 
Pistol match, 50yds.: H. A. Dill 91, 89, 88, 8S, 87, 86. 
DuPont Gun Club, Rifle Dept. 
Revolver and rifle shooting practice followed the reg¬ 
ular weekly shoot at the Du Pont Gun Club with the 
following results: 
Revolver and pistol practice, 50yds.: D. Appleby 85, S8, 
79 86, 88; L. C. S. Dorsey 72; Lockwood 42. 
Rifle practice, 50yds.: H. T. Reed 64, H. M. Gray 
29, 34; L. C. Weldin 51, 52; H. V. Carlon 25. 
Rifle qualification score, 50yds.: J. B. Grier 79, 53. 
Arms and Ammunition Chat. 
Horace C. Kirkwood, shooting Black shells, won 
high average for the two days at the first annual tourna¬ 
ment of Massachusetts State Trapshooting Association 
at W’ellington, Mass., July 18 and 19. His score was 
291 out of 300. 
And they say one “can’t come back.” Just the same, 
take Bill Blood as an example. Trying out a new 
Stevens repeater for the first time at the Massachusetts 
State shoot he scored 95 per cent, on 200 birds, and at 
Danbury, Conn., July 22, made 88 per cent. It looks as 
though Bill came back by a through express. 
Don Fisher won high amateur average at Danbury, 
Conn., July 22, with 139 out of 150. He used Peters 
shells. Ed. O’Brien won high prof, honors with the 
same ammunition at Wichita, Kans., July 25. His 
score was 141 out of 150, while C. A. Young, at Osborne, 
O., ran the entire program straight—100 birds. He shot 
Peters. 
If you meet C. W. Van Stone, he will more than likely 
talk Stevens repeater until you can’t rest. He’s almost 
loco about it. At the W’estern Connecticut Trapshoot- 
ers’ tournament he almost duplicated his Long Hill per¬ 
formance. He broke 136 out of 150, which made him 
second high. If it hadn’t been for the last two events!!! 
Well, that’s another story. 
The Maxim S'lent Firearms Co. has just issued an 
interesting leaflet explaining some hitherto uncertainties 
in the minds of possible users of the silencer. Among 
other things set forth is the fact, that, while the silencer 
annuls all noise of the report, it does not kill the 
“crack” made by a high velocity bullet, after it has left 
the barrel. This crack may be eliminated by using 
modified ammunition. 
HOW IT WORKS. 
The silencer checks the muzzle blast. Instead of the 
powder gases being liberated into the air instantaneously 
when the bullet emerges from the muzzle, as in the ordi¬ 
nary gun, the gases are caught by the silencer. They 
are made to whirl around inside the silencer. This 
whirling forces the gas to fly out from the center by 
centrifugal force, leaving a central space, just the same 
as when water is whirled around in a set bowl, a hole or 
space forms in the center. This leaves the space for 
the bullet to make its passage. The gas cannot pass 
