Jan. 30, 1909.] 
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Florida Gun Club. 
Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 17.—The Florida Gun Club 
opened on Jan. 15. There will be practice shooting from 
now until Feb. 1, when the election of officers will take 
place. The event will be celebrated by a handicap shoot 
of 25 live birds for a handsome silver cup. Those regis¬ 
tering on the opening day were Messrs. F. Patterson 
Abercrombie and Chas. N. Shaeffer, of the Pennsylvania 
R. R., and Messrs. \Vm. Findlay Brown, Samuel V. 
Heebnor, Maj. V\ m. Goodman, Col. and Samuel Good¬ 
man, of Chestnut Hill, Pa. The above party are making 
a tour of the South in their private car Kainbow, and 
stopped en route for a few days' hunt at Thomasville, 
Ga., guests pf Mr. and Mrs. A. Heywood Mason s beau¬ 
tiful plantation Susina. They report the quail as very 
plentiful there, and the birds in good condition. 
VVm. Dietsch, Mgr. 
Red Hook Gun Club. 
Red Hook, N. V., Jan. 20.—At the annual meeting 
of the Red Hook, N. Y., Gun Club, heid Jan. t>, the 
following officers were elected: President, Robt. J. 
Carroll; Vice-President, F. I. Whitnall; Secretary and 
Treasurer, VVm. S. Massonneau; Captain, Chas. B. 
Hoffman. 
With the treasury in good condition, a fine, new club 
house 16 by 28 feet, a machine trap and expert blue- 
rock traps, a splendid shooting ground with sky back¬ 
ground convenient of access, and an enthusiastic mem¬ 
bership, the club is in good shape. A Member. 
IRtfle 'Range and Gallery. 
Fixtures. 
March 13-20.—New York.—Gallery championship and 
shoot. Zettler Gallery, 
Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice. 
Washington, U. C.—In the report of Lieut.-Col. 
Robert K. Evans, of the Army General Staff, executive 
officer of the National rifle matches of 19U8, there is 
much of interest to all concerned in this National sport. 
Col. Evans has for two years been in charge of these 
great events, and will probably be selected as the 
executive officer for 1909, which promises to be the 
greatest shooting year this country has ever seen. His 
observations and recommendations are therefore worthy 
of the weighty consideration which they will receive at 
the hands of the War Department, the National Board 
for Promotion of Ride Practice, and the National Rifle 
Association, all of which are so deeply concerned with 
the success of the rifle shooting movement. 
Col. Evans makes a most careful resume of the rules 
as they exist and gives his recommendations for changes 
therein, which are mostly too technical in character to 
be of general interest. His observations concerning the 
I National matches as a whole, however, are of great im- 
I portance because of his experience, the facilities he has 
[ for discussion with riflemen of all classes and the mani¬ 
fest care and thoroughness which he has devoted to the 
report. 
I Prorninent among his recommendations is one for the 
acquiring of a National rifle range. This country is one 
of the few, perhaps the only one using high-power rifles 
as means of defense and otiense, which does not possess 
what might be termed in the true sense of the word, a 
[ National rifle range. The army, it is true, has several 
j more or less adequate, but none of them can touch in 
1 extent or equipment the great navy range at Guantanamo. 
Several of the States have ranges worthy of the name, 
as that of New Jersey at Sea Girt, and that of Ohio 
at Camp Perry. But when the United States Govern¬ 
ment holds its annual matches for the army, navy, 
marine corps and National guard, the only sporting con¬ 
test under the auspices of the Government and the 
greatest interstate sporting event of the year, it is com¬ 
pelled to borrow the use of a rifle range from one of 
the States. Col. Evans recommends that a National 
range be acquired immediately and suggests the pur¬ 
chase of the Camp Perry range, "for the reason that it 
is believed not to be in keeping with the dignity of the 
United States to be under obligations to a State for 
the loan of a range for a great National event under the 
management of the general Government.” Col. Evans 
points out that the maximum number of teams which 
can participate in the National match being one from 
each .State or Territory, and from the infantry, cavalry, 
navy, marine corps and the military and naval academies, 
is fifty-six. Last year fifty teams participated which 
were accommodated on the Camp Perry range. But he 
urges that the National range^ should be large enough 
to .accommodate all teams having the privilege of com¬ 
peting, and suggests sixty targets in a bank at short, 
mid and long ranges, with sufficient intervals between 
to admit of simultaneous firing on two adjoining ranges. 
He recommends eventually a range sufficiently large to 
permit of field firing under service conditions, being at 
least five miles square. Such a tract would comprise 
twenty-five square miles, or 16,000 acres, and Col. Evans 
mentions the fact that Germany with an area less than 
that of Texas, maintains twenty such ranges designed 
to fulfill the conditions of having each dimension greater 
than the range of the rifle. 
“The time is now ripe,” says Col. Evans, “when the 
Government should acquire such ranges and institute 
matches under service conditions, for the purpose of 
practically demonstrating the difference between range 
firing at known distances and under artificial conditions 
—all favorable, and firing at unknown distances under 
service conditions.” 
Continuing, Col. Evans points out that at the last 
match there were present for duty in manning the range 
no less than 170 officers and 859 enlisted men. and the 
anamalous situation is presented “in which the State of 
Field, Cover aLi\d Trap Shooting. 
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A Treatise on Retrieving. By B. Waters. 124 page*. 
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Treats minutely of the methods by which a dog, old or 
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Both the theory and practice of training are exhaus¬ 
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Uncle Lisha^s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
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The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lish* 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
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“to swap lies.” 
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