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10c. per tin 10c. 
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monthly trophy will start the following month in this 
event, at scratch. Should a tie occur for a “leg” 
in this event, it will be shot off without notice on the 
next 25 birds, etc. A tie for “possession” will be shot 
off at 25 birds on the last shooting day of the month. 
Club Cup. 
Twenty-five birds, handicap, each “Club day.” Three 
“legs” to win. A shooter winning this cup “outright” 
will shoot from scratch, in this event, during the re¬ 
mainder of the season. Should a tie occur for a “leg” 
in this event, it will be shot off, without notice, on the 
next 25 birds, etc. 
Accumulation Cup. 
Twenty-five birds handicap, each “Club day.” En¬ 
trance fee 50 cents. Five “legs” to win. A shooter 
winning this cup “outright” will go to scratch, but his 
handicap will be raised as per the rule whenever a 
scratch shooter wins. Should a tie occur for a “leg” 
in this event, it will be shot off without notice on the 
next 25 birds, etc. 
Travers Island Trophy. 
Twenty-five birds handicap, each “Club day.” En¬ 
trance fee 50 cents. Trophy to be won “outright” each 
day. 
N. C. R. Gun Club. 
Dayton, Ohio, October 24th, 1914. 
Saturday morning was warm and pleasant, the sun 
shone brightly and we looked forward to an enjoyable 
afternoon over the traps, with some high scores. About 
2 o’clock a strong, cold wind began to blow from the 
north and it blew harder and colder from then on, whirl¬ 
ing the targets up and around so that the shooters were 
kept guessing where they really would be when they 
“pulled” the trigger. Those 24s’ were as good as 25s’ 
straight on a still day. 
“War Times” have caused a decline in the trap 
shooting sport as well as in business because so many 
men are only working “short time” at their different 
professions and trades, even our friends on the farms 
(which is truly the steadiest and most independent of 
all occupations) are denying themselves the pleasure of 
shooting because they are in doubt about conditions 
this coming winter. 
The Liberty Gun Club of our city will give an All 
Day Shoot this coming Wednesday (October 28th) at 
their grounds along the D. L. & C. Ry., and we hope 
they will have fine weather and a large number of shoot¬ 
ers. We urge all 'those who can do so to attend as they 
will show every one an enjoyable time. 
Total Total 
Shot At Broke 
100 
J. D. Platt ... 
C. H. Rogge .. 
D. B. Hawkins 
A. E. Jenks .. 
R. R. Dickey . 
J. M. Markham 
R. H. Graham 
A. L. Davis ... 
F. Morris . 
E. Locke . 
R. R. Dickey .. 
J. M. Markham 
. 100 
. too 
. 100 
. 100 
. 75 
. 75 
. 50 
. 50 
. 50 
. 50 
DOUBLE TARGETS. 
Total 
Shot At 
48 
. 48 
. 48 
W. F. MAC, 
91 
86 
76 
7 i 
64 
62 
36 
A 2 
41 
46 
Total 
Broke 
38 
36 
Secretary. 
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comments mystify us with a huge mass of statis¬ 
tics worthy of a government report, in which 
they point out, to their own satisfaction, the 
quantities of game shipped from such-and-such 
a place in 1905 as compared with shipments of 
previous years, and draw such scientific and 
mathematical conclusions as to how long it will 
be before the last deer boards the refrigerator 
car for one of the large cities, that their state¬ 
ments and deductions are accepted as positive 
facts by the sporting public generally. 
Another cause, suggested by those who know 
a little more of their subject than the majority 
of game preservation agitators, is the illegal 
shooting and pot-hunting, which includes “jack¬ 
ing,” “hounding,” killing out of season, killing 
more than the legal limit, etc. Some claim that 
the market hunter and the skin taker are alone 
responsible for the vast destruction of game. 
Of course, conservative debators rest their argu¬ 
ments on statements claiming all the above causes 
combined as the reasons why the deer and the 
moose are disappearing. 
Undoubtedly, the vast amount of legislation 
in defence of big game has been good; such as 
short open seasons, licenses for hunting, small 
number of each species allowed to one person, 
etc, etc. Of all the various laws passed, how¬ 
ever, the one making a continuous close season 
for a few years, seems to be the most ineffectual, 
and decidedly the most inconvenient. The fact 
of the matter is that the larger varieties of ani¬ 
mals increase very slowly, and after two or three 
years of complete protection are not very much 
more numerous than before. In the meantime 
they have become more or less tame, and it 
takes only about a year or so to kill off all the 
increase and bring the locality back to where 
it was at the commencement of the close period. 
Shortening the open season has very little, if 
any effect upon the quantity of game. Those 
who annually go deer or moose hunting are 
going anyhow, and the fact that the season 
starts a little later or closes a little sooner will 
not keep them a’way. No matter how short the 
open season, it would hardly be so short that 
it would be impossible for a sportsman to get his 
legal limit. As to those who live in or near the 
hunting grounds, such shortening of the season 
would not affect them in the least. The guides 
and woodsmen would kill just as many as before, 
while of the other natives, the large majority 
hunt not at all, and the balance have very little 
time to engage in such pastimes. 
The statement may seem preposterous at first, 
but it is nevertheless a fact, that the number of 
sportsmen annually hunting a locality has very 
little effect on the quantity of game, though 
undeniably, it has a great effect upon their nerves. 
The majority of our larger game in the East 
is killed by those who live in the country. This 
may seem a surprising statement to some, but 
it is nevertheless a fact that the greater portion 
of game shipped out of the hunting regions 
“was never killed as alleged,” to say nothing of 
the vast number that the railroads do not handle 
and of which no record is kept. 
The market hunter of course kills a goodly 
number, but it stands to reason, as well as be¬ 
ing an actual fact, that the market hunter does 
not exist, or at least, does not thrive in localities 
where game is not exceedingly plentiful, as his 
illegal operations would remunerate him very 
little. It is easily understood how it is possible 
for game to be too scarce for professional hunt¬ 
ing, yet sufficiently plentiful to afford very good 
sport. It is quite a “job” getting a deer or moose 
out of the woods to a point where it may be 
sold for a price which would compensate the 
hunter in dollars and cents for the hard labor 
and time expended and skill exercised, as the 
services of a good hunter are worth not less 
than $3.00 per day and usually a much larger 
amount. Market hunting of itself would never 
make large game so scarce that good sport would 
be destroyed. In the days of “hounding” the 
professional hunter was in his glory, but those 
days are now passed, and only the veriest expert 
can make good money “still-hunting,” “driving,” 
or watching ponds or runaways in hopes of get¬ 
ting a pot shot. “Jacking” is certainly destruc¬ 
tive, but only practicable during the warmer days 
of September and along the banks of marshy 
rivers and water ways. From personal observa¬ 
tion, the writer is of the humble opinion that 
if the average city sportsman, himself unaided, 
can kill more than the legal limit, he has most 
certainly earned it. 
The laws affecting the large game, or at least 
enacted to affect the large game of the Adiron- 
dacks and Maine are well enough as far as they 
go. That is to say; that if there were no laws 
at all, there would hardly be any game left to 
make laws about by this time; but it matters 
little how stringent the “game laws” are or how 
rigidly they are supposed to be inforced, they 
are powerless to save the wild animals if there 
is no forest for them to live in. So long as 
we have the forest, aided a little by that wise 
and judicious law prohibiting “hounding” we 
will have game. 
It matters little how many ardent sportsmen 
or avaricious pot hunters infest the borders of 
the wilderness, if we we have a wilderness, the 
game will take care of itself, as the sportsman 
who is compelled to travel a goodly number of 
miles in search of his quarry loses some of his 
ardor, and the pothunter who has to transport 
his kill a long distance is likely to have his 
avarice rudely shattered. In the meantime, the 
dear, the moose, the bear and their friends and 
relations live long and prosper; and the true 
sportsman—the man who can carry a pack and 
paddle a canoe, and enjoy a long trip through 
the lakes and rivers unsullied by the mad rush 
of the summer hotel keeper, unpolluted by the 
dirt and refuge of the sawmill, and uncleft by 
(Continued on page 578.) 
