April 24, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Boston and Vicinity. 
Mr. E. A. Taylor, of the Boston Revolver Club, is 
domg some phenomenal work with the pistol these days. 
Portland, Me., trap is on the boom, twenty new mem¬ 
bers being admitted at a recent meeting of the Portland 
(I'un Club. 
Mrs. Gil Wheeler, of Brunswick, Me., was a Boston 
visitor last week, and for one whole day had Gil in 
training through the shopping district. 
C. W. Pennington donated a very handsome bronze 
cup for the Winthrop holiday shoot. Displayed at the 
trapshooters’ headquarters for a few days previous, it 
attracted quite a few shooters to the Winthrop grounds. 
F. H. Powel, of Newport, came up for the Powel- 
Putnam wedding at high noon on Thursday last. Bert 
wants everybody to attend the Aquidneck shoot on May 
30, and promises the best of entertainment for the 
holiday. 
Mr. C. P. Curtis, Jr., has presented the Palefaces with 
a very pretty sterling cup for competition next month. 
The first man to win it twice can own it, and the han¬ 
dicap will be added targets. 
The Flarvard boys have been having some fun with 
the waterfowl the past month. Stanley Cobb and 
Nick Brooks visited Coffin’s shooting stand at Mus- 
keget over the holiday. J. Heard, Jr., and S. C. W'ood- 
worth, with friends, have purchased a ducking stand 
near Eastham, Mass. 
The Norfolk Country gunners have unfortunately had 
to cut out trap work for a while, as it interfered with 
the golf playing. A committee is considering a change 
of location with better background. 
For one whole week things have been dull in the 
kidding line. Geo. Hassam. Pastmaster of the Straight 
Face Ananias League, was away on a business trip. 
Fred Whitney’s long-looked-for high grade gun ar¬ 
rived last week and was christened at the B. A. A. on 
Saturday. 
Several small-bores have come to town. An 8V41b. 32in. 
20-gauge for E. A. Jones, and a 30in. IG-gauge for 
Charlie Harden, are among the number, and the latter 
has dubbed it his duck and yellow-leg gun, merely to 
draw attention to its long and short range shooting 
qualities. 
’Tis said that Robert Schindler, Jr., of Monponsett, 
has established the season’s record by shooting 33 
geese in one day recently. The young man is credited 
with being an expert with the gun, and this would 
seem to be good proof. 
Stories of hunting and fishing and the good fellowship 
of outdoor followers made the annual banquet of the 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Association, held at the 
Copley Square Hotel last Wednesday night, one of the 
most enjoyable occasions in the history of the society. 
“British America, the Newest of Big-Game Hunting 
Grounds,” was the subject of a lecture delivered by 
William T. Hornaday, president of the New York Zo¬ 
ological Park, a hunter and student of wild life in prac¬ 
tically every big forest in North America. 
Though a very moist day. eighteen shooters attended 
the Wednesday shoot at Wellington. Daggett and Dickey 
led in the Burnes trophy contest, and also tied on 82 
out of 100 targets for the afternoon; Frank, Buffalo, 
Clarke and Sibley were next in order with 80. The 
wind ducked the targets and the targets ducked the 
loads, so the scores were below normal. Todd and Buf¬ 
falo won the spoons in the two-man team match. 
Sportsmen who are interested in game protection are 
uniting in an endeavor to secure the passage of a 
bill which is designed to protect all wildfowl from Jan. 
1 to Sept. 15 each year. The bill now before the Legis¬ 
lature to prohibit spring shooting is in line with the gen¬ 
eral movement of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
the Audubon societies, good sportsmen and game pro¬ 
tectionists everywhere. Laws penalizing spring shooting 
are now in force in nearly all the provinces of Canada 
and in most of the Northern States. Prof. W. W. 
Cooke, the U. S. government expert on the distribution 
and migration of birds, says that fall shooting should 
cease as soon as or soon after the fall migration is at an 
end, and he emphatically asserts that to save wildfowl 
from hopeless annihilation nothing short of absolute 
prohibition of spring shooting in every part of the 
country should be advocated. 
With no shoot scheduled at Wellington for the week 
end, the telephone was brought into requisition early 
Saturday morning, and very soon about fifteen depend- 
ables were to take the 1:48 train sure. The lovely day 
furnished perfect conditions for target work, and half 
those present took full advantage by breaking better than 
80 out of their 100. Geo. Darton and Arthur Sibley were 
high with 90, Staples 89 and Daggett 88, running the pro¬ 
fessionals a close race. Others who finished were: Burnes 
87, Harden 81, Wheeler 80, Dineen 77, Brinley 73, Kelso 
and Clapp 72. 
In the handicap shoot of the B. A. A. Gun Club, River¬ 
side, Mass., April 17, T. C. Adams ranked first with 
handicap, also without. His total score was 93, with 2 
added targets, the nearest score being 89, made by A. A. 
Knights, with 24 added. O. R. Dickey from scratch 
broke 87. Fourteen shooters were out. The tie for first 
prize in the novelty match of preceding Saturday was 
shot off, and Richards won by a score of 22 to 17 for 
C. C. Clapp. 
R. L. Dale and W. Charles tied on 46 in the long-range 
match at the Massachusetts Rifle Association, Walnut 
Hill, April 17. L. Lewis made an 88 in the medal match, 
and J. Busfield two 84s in the offhand pracljce event. 
\V. R. Baldwin placed six scores of 87 or better in the 
pistol and revolver match. 
The Highest Score At The Metropolitecix Championship 
Shoot Made With 
WINCHESTER 
Loaded Shotg\in Shells—^The 96.77^ Kind 
Lester German, shooting Win¬ 
chester Factory Loaded shells, 
out-shot the field of 177 entries at 
the big shoot held in Montclair, 
N. J., April 7, and made the splen¬ 
did score of 97 out of 100 targets. 
Such a score tells its own story of 
skill and uniform, even-shooting 
shells. 
Of the Amateurs, W. J. Sortor, 
shooting Winchester Shells, was 
second with 92 breaks, and W. A. 
Kennedy, shooting Winchester 
Factory Loaded Shells and a Winchester Repeating Shot¬ 
gun, was third. 
Winchester Factory Loaded Shells and Winchester Repeat¬ 
ing Shotguns, the Red W Combination, usually win the 
lion’s share of the money and honors. In 1908 Charles 
G. Spencer out-shot the world with them, his record being 
96.77 per cent for 11,175 shots. If you have been handi¬ 
capped by gun or shells, try the Red W Combination and 
you’ll see the difference. 
Winchester Standard Grade Shotguns and Winchester Regular Stock 
Loads of Shells — ''Leader" a7id "Repeater"—Outshoot All Others. 
LESTER GERMAN. 
Holland Gun Club. 
Buffalo Audubon Gun Club. 
Batavia, N. Y., April 15.—We began our summer sea¬ 
son to-day, and will shoot twice a month, till October, 
on the second and fourth Thursdays, with the following 
exceptions: June, first and third Thursdays; shoot of 
July 22 will be shot July 15; shoot of Sept. 23 will be 
shot Sept. 30. Seventh annual tournament ,Aug. 18. 
We have made a start at the clay balls with rifles, but 
will refrain publishing scores till we can manage to 
break one. 
We are shooting a sliding handicap, 16 to 
our summer programme, and to-day’s scores 
20yds., for 
follow: 
12 3 
10 20 20 
(i 15 16 
Events; 12 3 
Targets; 10 20 20 
“39” . 9 14 19 
Gardiner . 9 16 16 
Watson . 8 16 16 
Brumber . 8 16 15 
Walls . 5 16 17 
With totals of 42, 41, 40, 39, 38. 37 and 3' 
the first seven men were playing tag. 
Chas. W. Gardiner. 
Events: 
Targets: 
Tomlinson 
C Robson . 9 13 15 
Lortz . 4 9 8 
Gottis . 4 7 7 
Wells . 2 9 6 
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regularly. 
Buffalo, N. Y., April 17.—The following scores were 
made by members of the Audubon Club. The first six 
events were shot from the 16yds. mark. Last four from 
the 21yd. mark. Targets were thrown 55yds. from a 
Leggett trap. 
Three hundred and fifty dollars in prizes will be given 
at our Decoration Day shoot. May 31. 
Events: 1 2 "3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Targets: 10 15 25 10 25 15 25 25 25 25 
Mesinger . 8 9 23 8 16 11 17 . 
Bernhard . 9 14 21 9 19 13. 
Swope . 9 9 20 8 21 15 . 
Smith . 8 12 22 10 19 14 20 19 20 19 . 
Cox . 9 13 21 9 23 13 19 19 19 16 ‘ 
McArthur . 6 11 21 8 19 14. 
Keily . 6 13 16 7 21 12 19 17 17 19 
C S Sidway . 6 13 17 8 21 12 . 
Talcott . 6 14 23 6 19 11 20 . 
Wootton . 9 14 24 9 24 14 19 22 21 19 
Reinecke . 8 12 19 7 21 21 15 .. 20 13 
Suckow . 10 .. 25 .. 21. 
Moot . 3 .. 14 .. 20. 
.Savage ..18 .. 14. 
W. C. Wootton. Sec’y. 
