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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Oct. 21, 1911. 
AJAX 
Whoopee for 
THE BLACK SHELLS 
Y ES, my son, I’m just back from a little bird party with THE BLACK SHELLS. 
Take it from me, they get the duck. Didn't miss one that I got a skin-o’- 
my-teeth chance at. You know the snipe that flies like a teetering corkscrew? 
Well, in front of THE BLACK SHELLS he flies on the level—the dead level. 
There’s truth in that joke, my son. 
“Quick? What’s that, are they quick? Say, son, I have been using other shells—them like 
mother used to make: You pull the trigger, then run around to the muzzle to catch the shot, and 
throw ’em at birdie. 
“Are they quick? Say, only last Fall I had the other kind. Shot at a grouse. The ‘bang’ 
waked him up and scared him so that he circled around a tree too fast and shot out just in time to 
bump into the charge and get stunned. I picked him up and wrung his neck before he come to. 
“Are they quick? That’s what I’m seekin’ to make get to you. What I just spieled about the 
other kind ain’t cross-my-heart, sure-nuff gospel; but THE BLACK SHELLS make you think that 
your previous and heretofore shootin’ has been about as lightnin’-like as rollin’ marbles. 
“The makers talk a lot about their Non-Mercuric Primer and their big Flash-Passage. P’raps 
them’s what does it and p’raps it ain’t. What I know is — they get the duck. 
“ ’N say, my son, when you hang- your old fowlin’-piece in the crook o’ your arm, you be blamed 
sure that your pocket is bulgin’ with THE BLACK SHELLS. Then you’ll get the duck.” 
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Chicago Gun Club. 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 7.—With the wind blowing a gale 
for the last thirty-six hours, it was gratifying to see 
even a few shooters come out to try their skill in about 
the worst kind of weather one could want, as far as 
shooting clay targets is concerned, and one has to go 
after them quick to make any kind of a score. Bills 
tried to break some of them almost before they left the 
traps and broke 48 out of 50 in each event, giving him a 
total of 96 out of 100. Graham was next in line with 
90 out of 100 for the day. 
Morehouse showed a spurt of his former skill by 
breaking 47 in the second event. 
Goode did much better in the second event when he 
went after them a little quicker. 
M J Morehouse. 37 47 Miss Sullivan .... 15 28 .. 
O P Goode. 35 42 Dr W C Sanford. 13 16 26 
F G Bills. 48 48 Willard Sanford.11 14 
E S Graham. 44 46 L M Fetherston.. 19 .. .. 
J M Miles.... 18 24 .. 
Oct. 8.—The pleasant weather of to-day brought out a 
field of fifty shooters to participate in our club cham¬ 
pionship shoot and extra practice events. Thirty-two 
club members participated in the main event, sixteen of 
whom qualified for the race for the championship trophy, 
a beautiful diamond set solid gold watch fob, which was 
finally carried away by Jesse Young, who won the final 
round from VV. A. Davis. 
W. F. Riley won the final round from C. B. Willey in 
the race for the consolation prize, which was shot for by 
the sixteen members who did not qualify for the main 
event. 
This championship race was conducted in a way which 
was quite interesting for all, and quite a number of 
close races were run, several pairs tying and having to 
shoot-off before pairing for the next round. After hav¬ 
ing shot the qualifying round, numbered slips of paper 
were drawn, and the shooters were paired according to 
t'he number drawn, No. 1 competing against No. 2, 
No. 3 against No. 4, and so on down the line in the 
next round, the winner of the first pair competed against 
the winner of the second pair, this order being carried 
out through each round, and it proved quite popular. 
Shaw was high in the qualifying round with a score 
of 48 out of 50, Young, Vance and Stemmer each 
scoring 47. Young finished out his last 100 with a total 
of 98, losing only 7 targets of his 185 in the race for 
the trophy. Stemmer and Roll both went along fine in 
the first iOO, Stemmer having broken a total of 94. but 
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 
it on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
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For instance, you will never be handicapped with 
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screw compensates for a year’s wear by a trifling 
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was put out of the running when Kammerer went 10 
straight in their second • shoot-off of the tie. Roll drew 
the low score in the fourth round, when he was paired 
with Young. Zacher and Willey both did good work 
after the qualifying round, each of them losing only 6 
targets in the next three rounds. Many good scores 
were recorded in the practice events, and on the doubles. 
1 W Boltman . 
2 B L Kammerer... 
3 T P Bue. 
4 C F Stemmer_ 
5 J A Schultz. 
6 W A Davis. 
7 A Vance . 
8 C E Shaw. 
9 A F MacLachlan 
10 J B Barto . 
11 Geo Roll . 
12 O P Goode. 
13 C R Seekg . 
14 J S Young. 
15 H S Hanson. 
16 J A Taggart. 
17 Miss Sullivan ... 
18 W F Riley. 
19 W Mott . 
20 L G Vogel. 
21 E B Shogren. 
22 B Donnelly. 
23 C F Seelig. 
24 W F Merkle. 
25 W F Holtz. 
26 O Kansche . 
27 J W Keller. 
28 C P Zacher. 
29 C W May. 
30 P Miller '. 
31 Mrs Vogel . 
32 C B V illey. 
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Scores of shoot-off of several ties as follows: Kam¬ 
merer, 9, 10; Stemmer 9, 9. MacLachlan, 7; Barto, 8. 
Seelig, 9; Young 10. 
The following practice 
championship were shot: 
Events: 
Targets: 
J S Young.. 
J B Barto. 
events before and after the 
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