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FOREST AND STREAM 
SOU) EVERYWHERE 
INCHESTER 
12 y 16 and 20 Gauge 
Hammereess Repeating Shotguns 
On acoount of its strength, light weight and balance, the ease and 
certainty of its operation, the beauty of its lines and finish, 
and the mechanical correctness of its design, the Winchester 
Model 1912 shotgun has been pronounced by critical experts 
“The Most Perfect Repeater.” The barrel, receiver and all the 
metal working parts, except the springs, are made of Nickel 
steel, which has twice the strength of the steel generally used 
in other makes of similar guns. Nickel steel construction 
means not only a lighter and stronger gun, but a better balanced 
one, because it permits a better distribution of weight. For that 
reason, the Winchester Model 1912 “feels” better and “comes 
up” better than other makes of repeaters. This gun has a cross¬ 
bolt trigger lock, a smooth, quick and easy action and a simple 
take-down system. It loads and unloads easily, and its shoot¬ 
ing qualities are not excelled by the highest priced double 
guns. If in the market for a shotgun, an examination of the 
Winchester Model 1912 will convince you that it is rightly 
called “The Most Perfect Repeater.” 
IVIN CHE 5 TER Loaded Shells: In a Winchester or 
any make of shotgun, use Winchester 
Loaded Shells, “Leader” or “Repeater.” 
In any gun of any gauge they give 
the best possible results. 
W. G. Moser . 
15 ° 
ns 
J G. Martin .. 
150 
141 
2nd Day 
250 
144 
J. L. Shaffer .. 
150 
129 
2nd Day 
150 
129 
H. B. Shoop .. 
150 
144 
2nd Day 
150 
138 
D. A. Herrold 
150 
141 
2nd Day 
iso 
128 
Wilnoski . 
150 
131 
Howell . 
^Professional. 
150 
105 
J. W. SCHOFFSTALL, 
Secretary. 
HOW TO START A RIFLE CLUB 
GOING. 
AND 
KEEP IT 
Courtesy 
Remington Arms U. 
PROSPECTUS. 
M. C. 
Co. 
A small bore rifle club usually begins with one man. 
The way it happens is about like this. 
You have become interested in rifle shooting, prob¬ 
ably own a rifle and shoot on a home made range, and 
have discovered that here is a sport that affords you 
a big return in pleasure for a little organization at a 
very small expense. It is true you may develop quite a 
degree of skill shooting alone, but there will be a 
great deal more interest for you if you can get some 
others together to shoot in competition. 
Or perhaps you be'long to some rifle club or organiza¬ 
tion that is not half alive because it lacks the interest 
to bring members together regularly. 
You may be a teacher of a class of boys or “Bjg 
Brother” to a group of them. 
It may be that you take a hand in betterment work. 
You may be an employer or employe who realizes 
the value of the “get together spirit” among your fel¬ 
low workers. 
AN ATTRACTIVE INEXPENSIVE SPORT. 
Shooting with a small calibre rifle affords a sport 
with many attractions. It is a clean, manly sport. It 
can be followed every month in the year. It gives all 
the interest that comes from competition in skill and 
the competition of man against man and team against 
team. At the same time it is a sport in which every¬ 
body interested can participate continually regardless 
of skill. Women and girls can take part in it. Social 
life can build up around it. Finally it is as cheap as 
it is democratic for the cost to the individual partici¬ 
pant is trifling and a well organized, well managed 
rifle club pays its way automatically. 
So you think of organizing a rifle club. 
Small Bore Tournament. 
a much easier task. For when people come together 
they are different people. They warm each other up, 
and generate enthusiasm. If there is something humor¬ 
ous said or done, they laugh together, and feel good. 
If there are points hard to understand they explain 
them to one another, and discuss them. People asked 
to help start a club alone might approve, and yet hesi¬ 
tate for fear that others would not come in. But when 
you have your crowd together they see the others there 
ready to go ahead, and just as enthusiastic as them- 
selves 
’ ‘ A. FEW GOOD THINGS TO KNOW. 
So the battle is half won and the club half sold when 
you get a crowd together, and it only remains to have 
a clear proposition to lay before them. 
This proposition calls for a little arrangement in ad 
vance. 
Get three or four of your friends together, organize 
yourselves into a little committee and talk things over. 
Lay out the work that needs to be done and divide it 
among yourselves so that things will go ahead _ without 
taking up too much of the time of any one individual. 
You want a capable speaker first of all. He need not 
be an orator, but just a man heartily interested in the 
new club and able to set forth its plan of organization. 
Probably you are that speaker yourself. But if you 
have any doubt about it, and are not certain that you 
can stand up before a crowd and run things, enlist a 
good speaker—an attorney, a political leader, the Mayor, 
or local Congressman, or somebody who can act as 
chairman and keep things going briskly. 
When the meeting is called to order, there should 
be a little talk about the necessity for this new club, 
the clean sporting basis of small bore shooting, its 
democracy, its adaptability for boys as well as men, 
and girls and women too. Let the audience know that 
this sport is a live thing, that it is being organized 
elsewhere, and growing rapidly in several countries. 
Put it on a platform of neighborhood pride and ask 
if they intend to lag behind the procession. 
Then follows the plan of organization. It is well to 
have information about one or more places that can be 
rented for range purposes, and to explain the general 
scheme of finance and management, the by-laws, rules 
and so forth. These details will probably. bring out 
questions and discussion and good suggestions. 
In this matter of organization there is a definite 
“know how.” 
It is simple enougfy once explained and understood, 
and a rifle club organized on the right basis grows and 
thrives from the start. 
So we will assume that you yourself, the reader of this 
book, are the fellow who wants to get a healthy rifle 
club going in your town, and will talk directly to you 
and tell how it is done. 
EASY TO GET MEMBERS. 
You can start a good - rifle club with as few as two 
dozen members at the beginning. But the interest will 
be greater, and financing easier, if you can get fifty. 
That is not difficult. There are probably several dozen 
persons scattered around your locality who like to 
shoot, even though you yourself know but a few. 
You have only to bring them together. And even if 
there are not many shooters, every small town and city 
neighborhood has fifty young people who will like shoot¬ 
ing when they get acquainted with it. You can find 
that many in your town. They are waiting, in fact, 
wherever healthy young folks are found it is only neces 
sary to put the proposition before them in an interest¬ 
ing way and bring them together for organization. 
Find a place to hold the first meeting. An office, a 
lodge room or hotel parlor will do. Set a convenient 
date for it a couple of weeks ahead. 
LOCAL DEALERS SHOULD BE INTERESTED. 
Take this plan up with your local hardware and sport¬ 
ing goods dealers and have them work with you. A rifle 
club will naturally help their business so you should 
experience no difficulty in getting them on your side. 
Then go to work to get the idea of this new rifle club 
spread around town, so eligible persons will hear about 
it, understand it and have time to think it over. 
NEXT COMES YOUR MEETING. 
Suppose there are fifty to one hundred persons pres¬ 
ent. Some will be shooters, and others have never 
shot. Some men, some boys, some women, some girls, 
some for the club, others there merely to see what hap¬ 
pens. 
If you took every person aside by himself, or met him 
on the street, and explained the idea of the club, that 
would require a long while, naturally. And no matter 
how well you sold each man to the club, you would 
lack one of the greatest aids to selling so long as you 
had to explain the proposition to him by himself. When 
you get all the members together in a meeting you have 
