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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 7, 1911. 
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Shell Mound Park. 
Emeryville, Cal., Sept. 24.—Many marksmen attended 
the range to-day. The main event was the annual com¬ 
pany prize shoot of the Independent Rifle Club, a 
civilian organization not in any way connected with the 
National Guard, and turned out a company of eighty- 
seven strong, marched early in the morning through 
the streets of San Francisco, took the local ferry boat 
across San Francisco Bay to Shell Mound Park, arriv¬ 
ing at 9:30 A. M. This organization has never in its 
history of thirty-four years had such a grand turnout, 
and in the past three months added thirty new members 
to its roll, the reason being that the inducement for a 
young man who likes military training is not compelled 
to turn out, providing he pays the fines for non-at¬ 
tendance. Social functions that are generally favored 
by young men seem to be the attraction for many to 
join these civilian organizations, including the passive 
members. One hundred and twenty-five took part in 
the company shoot, $500 in prizes from the company 
and $200 from outside donors. Each member is entitled 
to 50 shots only on the Standard American target at 
200yds., with the .45 Springfield, possible 50. The best 
score and the first prize fell to A. Temple, who made 32. 
Other clubs turned out very strong. The Golden 
Gate had a good attendance, considering that practi¬ 
cally for three Sundays straight the members have at¬ 
tended the range—pretty near time for somebody to 
take his wife out. C. M. Ffenderson made 230, the best 
score of the day, while W. F. Blasse left only a distance 
of three rings behind him with 227, and made it twice, 
too. The famous J. E. Gorman made the high score 
on the pistol range, while C. W. Linder cuddled closely 
to Jim with a 95. a score like that in the Shell Mount 
Club means something to a man like Linder. 
The veteran N. G. C. had lots of fun, and as the old 
members generally make a good time of the sport, blazed 
away at that Blunt target with earnest, and the boom 
of the .45 Springfield meant much to F. P. Poulter, who 
made 44 out of 50, while Capt. Klien made a possible 
on the pistol range at the same target; but at 50yds., 
.38 revolver, U. M. C. cartridge, Otto A. Bremer took 
the first prize in the Germania Schuetzen Club, while 
N. Ahrens made the best score in the San Francisco 
Schuetzen with 220. F. P. Schuster took the first prize 
in the bullseye shoot of the Norddeutscher Schuetzen 
Club. 
Owing to the Panama Pacific Exposition World’s Fair, 
the shooting here will be of great interest to many, and 
new shots are being developed every Sunday. 
Wm. A. Siebe. 
Zetfler Rifle Club. 
The thirty-seventh annual shoot of the Zettler Rifle 
Club took place on the 26th at Union Hill Schuetzen 
Park, under most unfavorable weather conditions, which 
probably was the cause of the poor attendance. Still 
creditable scores were made, owing, in a great measure, 
to the fact that most participants used telescopic sights. 
On the target of honor, which was open to members 
only, the scores in three shots, possible 75, were: L. P. 
Hansen 71, A. Hubalek 70, M. Dorrler 69, II. M. Pope 
GS, F. C. Ross 67, F. L. Smith 67, B. Zettler 65, T. 
Williams 65. J. Kaufmann 65, P. F. Schmitt 65, G. L. 
Amouraux 65. G. Schlicht 65, T. H. Keller 64. C. Zet¬ 
tler 63, R. Schwanemann 62, A. F. Laudensack 62. T. W. 
Hessian GO. F. Busch, Jr.. 60. O. C. Boyce 60, F. M. 
Bund 60, W. A. Tewes 58, Gus Zimmermann 57, F. 
Flecking 55, A. Begerow 53, T. Muzzia 39, C. A. Schrag 
39. 
Ring target, tickets of 3 shots, possible 75, best two 
tickets for first five nrizes, single tickets for the rest: 
A. Flubalek 74, 71, H. M. Pope 71, 70, T. W. Hessian 
70, 70; W. A. Tewes 72, 68 ; F. C. Ross 70. 69; J. Will¬ 
iams, Jr., 70; A. F-nudensack 69. G. Schlicht 69, J. J. 
Young 69, J. Kaufmann 69, O. Smith 68 , M. Baal 68 , 
W. Keim 67, G. Amouroux 67, B. Zettler 66 , F. F-. Smith 
65, M. Dorrler 65, P. F. Schmitt 64, R. Schwanemann 64, 
L. P. Hansen 63, A. Begerow 63. 
Premiums for best five tickets: A. Flubalek 351, H. M. 
Pope 345, A. F. Laudensack 337. J. Williams, Tr., 336. 
Bullseye target: A. Hubalek 19 degrees, W. Keim 25, 
R. Schwanemann 31, F. C. Ross 31%, T. H. Keller 34, 
II. M. Pope 36%, J. Kaufmann 37, L. P. Hansen 41, J. 
W. Hessian 43. A. F. Laudensack 44, Gus Zimmerman 
52, O. C. Boyce 53, F. M. Bund 65, J. Johnson 67%, 
W. A. Tewes 67%, G. Schlicht 73, F. L. Smith 78, F. 
Busch, Jr., 78. 
Premiums for most: F. C. Ross 45, W. Keim 41, A. 
Hubalek 31. G. Schlicht 26, A. F. Laudensack 22. 
First bullseye, F. C. Ross; last, C. A. Schrag. 
Zettler trophy, one ticket of three shots to each 
shooter: W. Keim 71, F. C. Ross 70, W. A. Tewes 69, 
J. W. Hessian 68 , H. M. Pone 68 , M. Baal 67, T. Will¬ 
iams 66 , R. Schwanemann 65, G. Amouraux 65, J. J. 
Young, A. Begerow. 
Du Pont Gun Club, Rifle Dept. 
The following scores were made on the ranges of the 
Du Pont Rifle Club, Sept. 30: 
Fifty-yard revolver and pistol practice scores: L. C. 
S. Dorsey 76, 78, 80, 80; D. Appleby 89, 80, 91, 93, 84, 
91, 85, 87, 87, 88 ; 11. England 75. 
Fifty-yard rifle (,22cal.) practice scores: J. B. Grier 
52, Mrs. H. T. Reid 40, C. H. Shepard 72, 70, J. Shep¬ 
pard 69, 53. 
Fifty-yard revolver and pistol qualification: E. S. 
Ackart 87. 
PASSING OF THE BUFFALO. 
Coincident with a report that the number of 
buffaloes in this country is rapidly increasing 
and no longer in danger of total extermination, 
Prof. Thomas D. Eason of the Oklahoma State 
University has sounded a note of alarm re¬ 
garding the narrowing circle of wild animals 
in the United States within recent years. 
The bison, or buffalo, has been taken care of 
barely in time to insure its preservation, and 
Prof. Eason says that unless measures are 
taken for the preservation of other wild ani¬ 
mals many of them, particularly the wapiti, or 
American elk, the moose, caribou, deer, prong¬ 
horned antelope, Montana goat, black bear and 
California grizzly, will soon disappear com¬ 
pletely. 
“Within the past twenty years,” says Prof. 
Y OU know mallards—wisest and wariest of all 
ducks- Solomons of the air. You can’t knock 
down mallards with a paddle nor can you get them 
with a gun that plasters its shots all over the face 
of creation. 
A mallard shot is generally a long shot, and long 
shots require a hard-shooting, close-shooting gun. 
That’s why the long-headed man who goes to a 
mallard country takes a Lefever. When he swings 
tt on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
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Lefever Arms Co., at Maltbie St., Syracuse,N.Y. 
Eason, “the snowy heron has practically dis¬ 
appeared. Twenty years ago there were in the 
region about Charleston, S. C., at least 3,000,- 
000 of these birds; to-day less than 100 remain. 
There is but one small colony of the American 
egret left in this country, and that one is on 
the coast of South Carolina. This colony was 
fired into last year, and again this year, so that 
twenty birds remain. It will be but a few years, 
unless some drastic measures are taken, before 
the history of this bird will be the same as that 
of the passenger pigeon.” 
Between 1880 and 1890. 3,800.000 alligators 
were killed in Florida. Twenty years ago it was 
a common occurrence to find alligators of great 
size in many of the streams of North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida 
and Louisiana. In all these States, excepting 
Florida and Louisiana, the saurian representa¬ 
tives are very scarce to-day. 
Government figures show that the herds of 
bison in this country in 1850 numbered about 
40,000,000 head. From 1850 to 1883, a period of 
thirty-three years, the number slain was more 
than 250,000,000. or 8.000.000 each year; a record 
which has few parallels. Ten or twenty years 
ago there were very few American children 
who had ever seen a bison. In 1900 the total 
number remaining in the United tSates was esti¬ 
mated at about a hundred, and it began to look 
as if another year or so would witness the death 
of the last surviving bison. Steps were taken 
to save the bison from extinction, with such 
good results that, according to the figures of 
the American Bison Society, there are now 
2,108 of them distributed among three Govern¬ 
ment herds and various private ones.—Popular 
Science Monthly. 
