920 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 23, 1911. 
49, Sergt P. C. Peterson 63, J. M. Hanson 30, Corp. E. 
Boyson 5G, P. Schonig 55, F. Meyer 22, E. R. Golsch 37, 
Major B. D. Hilken 52, M. C. Schleemann 38, Sergt. J. 
C. Moore 44, C. [less 14, R. Fleischauer 10, A. Wolfgrain 
35, J. Eichner 47 Corp. j. W. Moore 46. 
Shell Mound Pistol and Rifle Club, monthly bullseye 
shoot winners: Herman Huber 5, E. Schierbaum 19, H. 
W. Kleinbroich 24, H. Windmueller 30, L. S. Hawx- 
hurst 31, H. A. Harris 33, K. O. Kindegren 35, Frank 
P. Poulter 35, 13. Plassler 37, L. Erickson 37, W. A. 
Siebe 38, R. S. Wixon 41, O. Poulsen 42, M. Nielsen 50, 
C. W. Seely 54, Capt. George Larson 55, A. Hartmann 56, 
H. Gaetjen 58, C. W. Meek 60.—San Francisco Call. 
Du Pant Gun Club, Rifle Dept. 
W ilmington, Del.—The following scores were made on 
the rifle ranges on the 9th: 
Pistol and revolver qualification scores, 50yds.: I. du 
Pont 84, 86; W. S. Wredon 67. 
Revolver and pistol practice scores, 50yds.: D. Apple¬ 
by 80, 94, 89, 87, 88, 89, 85, 85; C. S. Walker 62, 69; 
Lamot du Pont 85; F. C. Dorsey 88. 
Rifle qualification scores, .22cal., 50yds.: C. W. Pierce 
225, 229, 233 , 235, 232; J. Nurnberg 230, 227, 224, 216, 212 
Rifle practice scores. ,22cal., 50vds.: T. Grier 163 162- 
Lamot du Pont 218; T. C. Weldin 215, 199, 212; T A. 
Ellison 198; Shuley 159; D. Appleby 233, 240; T W An¬ 
derson 195, 188; D. A. Grier 155. 
W ILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 16. — In connection with the 
trapshooting end of the Du Pont Gun Club, the rifle 
and revolver devotees who are members of that club 
held a special shoot in honor of the first anniversary 
the club having started in life one year ago. 
The special attraction of the day was a team race 
between members of the Du Pont Club and a team 
representing the Philadelphia Rifle Association, of which 
Association Harry Overbaugh, the popular ex-U. M C 
missionary, is the efficient chaperone. Mr. Overbaugh, of 
course was on hand to-day and had the pleasure’ of 
seeing Ins charges put it all over the local lights to the 
tune of 416 to 404. 
The range is 50yds. in the open, with no artificial light, 
and naturally Under the wretched weather conditions 
which prevailed all day, scores suffered somewhat. W. 
I. Smith, of Philadelphia, led his team with a score of 
'£0, while Lamot du Pont and D. Appleby tied for high 
score on the Du Pont team with totals of 84. The 
conditions were: Any pistol or revolver, 50yds., 10 
shots per man. Scores follow: 
Philadelphia R. A. 
■G N Smith. 79 
W T Smith. 99 
E A Palmer. 81 
H L Reeves. 85 
N Spering . 81—416 
Du Pont Gun Club. 
Frank Harkins ... 76 
E G Ackart. 82 
D Appleby . 84 
Iv N Mason. 78 
L du Pont. 84—404 
Blue Hen. 
Baltimore Poly Shoot. 
1 he Marksmen s Club, of the Baltimore Polytechnic 
Institute, held a shoot last Saturday at the range of the 
National Sporting Goods Company. There were not 
many out, but the results were good. McCabe led with 
a total of 174, with Porter a close second with 170, and 
Rice the next on the list with 162. The results, out of 
a possible 100 were: 
McCabe . 
Standing 
. Prone. 
86 
Total. 
174 
Porter . 
82 
88 
170 
Rice . 
80 
82 
162 
Taylor . 
75 
80 
155 
Coldberg . 
80 
73 
153 
Price . 
72 
80 
152 
Cohen . 
75 
69 
144 
Zettler 
New York, Dec. 12.- 
Rifle 
-Scores 
Club. 
made at the weeklv 
practice shoot in 
2250: 
five 
strings of 
10 shots 
each. 
possible 
G L Amouroux 
242 
236 
241 
243—1201 
A Begerow . 
9,97 
228 
237 
231 
237—1160 
F M Bund. 
240 
241 
242 
245—1211 
F Hecking . 
238 
236 
235 
236—1182 
J H Keller. 
240 
235 
243 
241—1198 
Dr A B Leavitt. 
.242 
247 
241 
239 
238—1207 
C Oltmann . 
24 9. 
241 
241 
240—1205 
H M Pope. 
246 
247 
248 
249—1235 
C A Schrag. 
234 
239 
235 
233—1178 
<) Smith . 
242 
240 
240 
240—1201 
B Zettler . 
237 
241 
237 
241—1190 
C Zettler . 
233 
239 
246 
247—1208 
Cypress Hills Rifles and Revolver Association. 
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The following scores were shot with 
service rifle, Dec. 17: 
Offhand, 200yds.: Christiansen 42, 45, 38, 43, 40; Geb- 
hardt 40, 41, 42, 37, 42, 44, 43, 42, 47, 43; Coler, 41, 40, 39, 
43, 42, 45, 43, 42, 43; Keister, 43, 43, 45, 44, 41, 43, 46, 45, 
45; Sherwood, 44, 43, 40, 38, 43, 39, 42, 41; Otto, 44, 43, 
40, 44. 
Prone, 200yds.: Gcbhardt 42, Christiansen 44, Otto 48, 44. 
Revolver, .38 S. & W. special, 50yds.: Kalloch SI, 85, 86, 
77, 82, 88, 83, 85, 90, 95. 
1 he h orest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
Biltmore Forest School. 
Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 20. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: On Sept. 16 we left Marshfield, 
Oregon, for our return trip east. Twenty-two 
of our men finished school while in Marshfield, 
and many of them remained in the employ of 
the C. A. Smith Timber Co. to fight their battles 
in the famous land of opportunities. At Tacoma 
we were entertained royally by President E. G. 
Griggs, of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 
Association. In Seattle, O. P. M. Goss, U. S. 
Forest Service, was our guide. We visited the 
University of Washington and were welcomed 
by the Dean of Forestry, Frank G. Miller, by 
Pfugo Winkenwerder, the dentro’ogist, and by 
the staff and by the students of the Washington 
Forest School. The forestry course offered at 
Seattle commands fine facilities for instruction. 
In the “pan handle” of Idaho, at St. Marie’s, 
under the guidance of Forest Supervisor T. C. 
Spaulding, we visited the white pine districts 
destroyed by the fires in 1910. The fierceness 
of these fires cannot be realized until one has 
witnessed the effects. The whole country is a 
charred, black, dead expanse—a horrible example 
of the destructiveness of forest fires. It is re¬ 
ported that the smoke from the fire concealed 
the sun for weeks, and the streams running 
through the forest were almost boiling. Not¬ 
withstanding the fierceness of the heat, the fire 
did not injure the white pine for immediate use. 
If left standing longer than two years, however, 
the trees will be attacked by insects and fungi, 
to become worthless after five years. 
On Oct. 3 we sailed for Germany on the New 
Amsterdam. We were joined by twenty fresh¬ 
men who are entering into the spirit of the 
school with energy. On the boat there were 
daily lectures by Dr. Schenck on “the founda¬ 
tions of sylviculture.” 
For the past two weeks we have been in the 
Odenwald at Lindenfels, inspecting German nur¬ 
series and German forests. Our practical ex¬ 
perience in forest planting goes hand in hand 
with our lecture work. The contrast between 
practical forestry in Western America, and prac¬ 
tical forestry in Eastern Europe is wonderfully 
telling. There cannot be any such thing as one 
single type of forestry. Each country, at each 
stage of its development, must needs develop 
and possess a distinct type of forestry in keep¬ 
ing with the economic conditions of the times 
and of the places. 
James W. Egnor, Jr., Class President. 
THE NIGHT BEFORE OPENING DAY. 
The evening is drawing to a close, and the 
men of the house party are gathered together in 
what serves as both smoking and gun room. 
The ladies have gone to their rooms, and this 
is the hour sacred to tobacco and the last 
whisky-and-soda. 
To-night, however, men seem shy both of 
the one and the. other. The boxes of fine cigars 
are looked at with polite caution, and one man 
(not the least hardy of the party either) is 
calmly sipping barley-water. 
The head keeper has been in to make his final 
suggestions, to get his final orders, and to toss 
off a glass of whisky with a comprehensive bow 
and “Good sport and straight powder, gentle¬ 
men 1” 
Through the wide-open window, when the talk 
lulls for a moment, comes the voice of the burn, 
falling to the loch. Once duck are heard passing 
down overhead from the hills to the meadow, 
where they will feed till dawn. 
From the kennels down by the keeper’s cot- 
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 Lefe^er. When he swings 
it on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
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The reason a Lefever. kills clean and sure and 
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But if yon buy a Lefever for the taper boring 
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tage comes the occasional impatient whimper of 
a dog. It is my belief that the Blue Beltons 
know perfectly well that tomorrow will see them 
at the old game. The happy possessor of a 
pair of Purdey’s be-st is handling them as care¬ 
fully as if they were twin children—and with 
far more confidence. 
The Impecunious One, who had pangs of con¬ 
science in spending twenty guineas over his one 
gun, asks to be allowed to examine them, and 
sits admiring the craftsmanship shown in line 
and perfect fit and balance. 
“It’s the man behind the gun that really mat¬ 
ters,” says their owner handsomely. “Last 
winter I carried one of them after snipe, with a 
fellow who beat me all round, carrying a gun 
which he told me he had picked up second-hand 
for ten pounds.” 
The talk turns to guns and powders, to dogs 
and past days of sport. 
“Remember,” says the Host, “there are a few 
broods of black game about. Don't fire at them 
if you can help it.” 
The novice, who would give any possible sum 
not to disgrace himself on this solemn occasion, 
tries vainly to get from his neighbor a precise 
and definite notion of the differences between 
young grouse and young black game. He con¬ 
cludes that since the black game may lie the 
closer and be a little the larger, he is more 
likely to hit them than anything else. 
“Don’t you mind!” says his host. “We’ve all 
made mistakes sometimes. The first day I was 
out after grouse I nailed a brace of partridges 
right and left. Wasn’t I proud, too—till I saw 
the keeper’s face! Another time I dropped a 
hen pheasant on the edge of a moor in Sep¬ 
tember—a snap-shot when I had been told to 
fire at everything I saw.” 
