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FOREST AND STREAM 
20-Gauge 
Repeater 
This neat little, sweet little pump gun will delight the true sports¬ 
man by its clean simplicity and surprising efficiency as a game-getter. 
It’s a perfect gun for snipe,quail,partridge,woodcock,squirrels,rabbits, 
etc. 5 shots,about 5 % pounds, 25-inch barrel. Handles fast and with 
wonderful precision — has ample range and power —and the light 
weight of gun and shells eliminates fatigue and adds zest to the sport. 
You will like the handsomely matted Like our 12 and 16 Hammerless,the 20- 
harrel —a high grade feature. Uses 2| as gauge has solid top, side ejection, matted 
well as 2 \ inch shells, allowing good, stiff 
loads for duck and trap. For increased 
weight or range, 28-inch barrel at same 
price. 
Write for free circular or send 3c. postage 
for big catalog of all Marlin rifles and shotguns. 
barrel, take - down construction, and the 
solid-steel-breech and safety features that 
make it the safest breech-loading gun built. 
7//crr/fn firear/ns Co. 
27 Willow St. New Haven, Conn. 
the latter is meant that demerits will be scored 
for sunken chunks, as follows: 
A demerit of one for every four feet the 
chunk remains under water when being retrieved, 
except when sunken chunk is caused by its strik¬ 
ing the can of the target when making the cast, 
or striking the can when being retrieved. Under 
these conditions a reasonable distance will be 
allowed to bring chunk to surface. 
The Illinois Casting Club extends a cordial in¬ 
vitation to the members of the other clubs to 
compete with its members for the beautiful 
trophy offered at this contest. 
J. D. AN WAY, Secretary. 
DON’T BLAME 
‘ if it fails you at a critical moment. 
Don't give it a chance to fail you— 
use “ 3 -in-One” and it never will! 
This oil keeps the reel’s sen- 
"sitive mechanism in perfect 
order. “ 3 -in-One” is the Con- 
one sure and safe reel tains no 
i lubricant. Won’t It abso- 
Jgum; won’t tutely prevents 
'ury out. ypr rust. Apply it to rod 
joints, they will come 
apart easily. Use on rod, 
__ —it’s good for wood—pro¬ 
motes pliability. Rub on line, 
prevents rotting. Trial bottle 
sent FREE bv 3 IN I OIL CO. 
112 New Street. 
New York City. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Editor Forest and Stream: — 
In accordance with the resolution adopted by The 
Interstate Association at its annual meeting of 1910, 1 
beg to advise you that Mr. P. H. O’Brien, of Portland, 
Oregon, was the winner of the Pacific Coast Handicap, 
shot at Portland, Oregon, July 22, 1914. Mr. O’Brien 
used a Parker Gun, Western Shells and E. C. Powder. 
E. REED SHANER, Secretary. 
Keep your eyes peeled for the big tournament of 
the Cincinnati Gun Club, August 13 and 14. A penny 
a targe,. $25 added money and three dandy trophies. 
One of the most interesting and instructive pub¬ 
lications issued in the interest of shooters is, “How 
to start a rifle club and keep it going,” put out, 
gratis to you, by Remington Arms-U.M.C. Co. Most 
any one can start a club, but to keep it going is 
another matter. This is carefully handled and, if 
instructions are followed, the rifle club’s life is as¬ 
sured. The vital point, how to get members, is ex¬ 
plained lucidly. Fine illustrations and perfeot letter 
press put the book in the library class. Get it. 
First registered tournament of Golden Gate Gun 
Club, San Francisco, will be shot September Ninth. 
150 targets in ten events, purse divided Rose Sys¬ 
tem 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 . 
Open shoot of the Warwick Rod and Gun Club to 
be held on their grounds at Warwick, N. Y., August 
20. John B. Rogers, president; John A. Shaw, vice- 
president; Fred V. Wood, secretary; Alex. J. Dughi, 
treasurer. 
150 targets in 9 events, four moneys. Rose System. 
Events 6, 7, 8 constitute Orange County Champion¬ 
ship. Hank Stevens of Remington-U.M.C. will have 
charge of the office, this means good service. War¬ 
wick is on the L. & II. R. R. Ry., connecting with 
the Erie at Greycourt, and the Lackawanna, at Andover 
Junction. 
Twelfth annual tournament, registered of Holland 
Gun Club, Batavia, N. Y., will be pulled August 
12. Officers—Hugo Brugmann, president; E. S. Wat¬ 
son, vice-president and treasurer; Watts L. Richmond, 
second vice-president; Chas. W. Gardiner, secretary; 
D. W. Tomlinson, Jr., captain. 
Rose System money divided 8-5-3-25 175 targets, 
eleven events, last event merchandise. Watt L. Rich¬ 
mond trophy and Western New York Championship 
will be shot for. 
As usual Billy Severn, the well-known Philadelphia 
amateur, was the first man to make _ up a squad for 
the Westy Hogan shoot and send it in to the tourna¬ 
ment committee. Mr. Severn is as regular in his at¬ 
tendance at the Westy Hogan tournaments as he is 
in his duties in the office of the prothonotary of Phil¬ 
adelphia. The Severn squad which always gives a 
creditable account of itself is made up entirely of 
Philadelphia amateurs who are shooting at a good clip 
this year and they expect to keep up the good work 
at the Westy Hogan shoot in September. 
The DuPont Magazine for July just bristles with items 
of interest to the student of ballistics and any man 
who would be well posted on the goings on in things 
powdery (not tooth nor talcum), should read George 
Frank Lord’s how to make a score with powder on 
paper like unto Teddy Doremus at the traps, and per¬ 
haps 15 targets better. 
The big Tennessee State Shoot will be pulled August 
17 18, 19, with a solid gold trophy for Tennessee 
Championship Challenge Trophy for the good shot. 
This is a hearty, hand-shaking bunch of boys and 
■you will make a mistake if you don’t get there. Full 
dope from P. B. Plummer, secretary and treasurer, 
Chattanooga, Tenn. w . G< BEECROFT. 
PETE THE DOG WITHOUT A PEDIGREE. 
(Continued from page 177.) 
the deer. Just why he should cache his venison 
under one heap, and then be at the trouble of 
scratching up four or five more round about it, 
is one of the things no fellow will ever find out. 
If it is 'done for a blind it must be a decided 
failure, as any canivorous animal would detect 
the right heap at the first sniff. But all the 
same he does it, and the panther always does 
the same thing, as every old still-hunter knows. 
And neither of them will hunt or go far from 
the spot until his larder is exhausted. His mode 
of life at such times is very simple. He goes 
to his cache with the first gray streak of dawn, 
fills himself to repletion, then to the nearest run¬ 
ning water for a drink, thence to his lair some¬ 
times in a straight course, but often in a zigzag, 
roundabout way, probably intended to throw off 
any chance pursuit. He only takes one meal 
daily, and passes all the hours of daylight doz¬ 
ing supinely. When found under such circum¬ 
stances he is easily treed by a sharp dog, for he 
dislikes to go far from his game, and will often 
take the nearest large tree, waiting like a feline 
idiot to be shot, when he might easily knock the 
dog out with one blow and make his escape at 
leisure. It was the thorough knowledge of these 
traits and habits of the feline tribe that rendered 
the extinction of the panther so easy to the old- 
time hunters of northern Pennsylvania. 
Felix concolor is never very plentiful any¬ 
where; his modes of life require a wide range 
of forest, and he breeds slowly. But there was 
a time when he was probably more numerous 
and more evenly distributed along the mountain 
spurs of the upper Susquehanna than any other 
range in the United States, and I could name 
half a dozen old hunters, each of whom had a 
record of seven to twelve “painter scalps,” and 
all of them, with one exception, sleep with their 
fathers. The panther is extinct, or nearly so; 
bu the game-destroying, deer-killing mountain 
cat is a diabolical certainty and unknown quan¬ 
tity, not so easily gotten rid of. And all these 
discursive remarks on the cat question were in¬ 
duced by the recollection of a little circus that 
Pete and I had with him on the head of Bear 
Run. I started in to tell the story, but this 
paper is already long enough; if it be found 
readable as well, I may try my hand on the story 
in a future number. 
