FOREST ANI) STREAM 
trapshooting club they often use the same size 
and style gun. 
The first to take an active interest in the try- 
gun has been the du Pont Company. Recently 
they called their shooter salesmen to the Wil¬ 
mington office and had Jack Fanning explain 
its use. 
Fanning explained the adjustability of the try- 
gun as to length of stock cast-off and drop of 
comb and heel. After stating that the breadth, 
height and usual shooting position of the shooter 
governed his measurements, then were taken up 
separately the different parts of a gun that 
should fit the shooter. First, was measured the 
length of stock required, by resting the butt of 
the gun in the bend of the arm, finding at what 
length the forefinger comfortably reached the 
trigger. Then having the shooter take the gun 
in his natural shooting position, careful study 
was made of the position of the butt and the 
comb. Necessary adjustments were made until 
the butt finally fitted the shooter’s shoulder and 
the heel had the correct drop. 
The comb was a harder proposition. The 
shooter’s eye had to be sighted, and attention 
paid to the way he cheeked the gun. The comb 
was adjusted several times until it fitted snugly 
to the shooter’s cheek, making sure that it was 
impossible for the shooter to hide his sighting 
eye behind the breech of the gun. To note these 
points, it was necessary to stand in front of the 
shooter, to make proper adjustments. 
On all future visits to clubs and other shoot¬ 
ing affairs in their territories, these salesmen 
will be prepared to measure anyone who contem¬ 
plates buying a new gun, or who wants to know 
just why his old one is not breaking 90 per cent, 
or better. 
GOOD SHOOTING IN NORTHWEST. 
Galesburg, N. D., August 16, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
From all appearances this is going to be the 
banner year in the northwest, both for crops and 
for game. The sloughs all over the state have 
been full of water all summer, and consequently 
the ducks are very plentiful. Except along the 
low lands close to the. Red river prairie chickens 
appear to have done well and reports come to me 
right along of parties seeing many birds and 
numerous covies. One in search of game can 
hardly go astray in the western part of the state. 
Oakes, McHenry, Williston, the Turtle Moun¬ 
tains, along the Mouse river—most any old place 
will give the hunter a game bag full. The stop¬ 
ping of spring shooting certainly is a great thing 
for the benefit of the game supply. Few indeed 
are the people here who incline to shooting in 
the spring any more, they see the good of its 
prohibition too plainly I guess. 
Jos. P. Whittemore. 
DR. SIMON MAKES NEW WORLD’S CAST¬ 
ING RECORD. 
"Dr. Carleton Simon, of New York, was ac¬ 
knowledged the champion of the Asbury Park, N. 
J. Fishing Club at their ninth annual casting 
tournament held Aug. 7, at Deal. His cast of 379 
feet 8 inches breaks his own record of 354 feet 
9 inches made at the Midland Beach tournament 
on June 27, already reported in Forest and 
Stream . He also made the record for the best 
cast in a “V” shaped court. 
The tournament attracted a large number of 
fishermen from the angler’s clubs in the vicinity 
of Asbury Park, who came to exhibit their skill 
with the rod and line. Women as well as the 
men turned out and the gentler sex made quite 
a fair showing. The tournament began at 10 
o’clock in the morning and closed at 6 o’clock 
at night. 
The winner of the first event, which was cast¬ 
ing in a lane thirty feet wide with three ounce 
lead, was Dr. Simon, who scored 1,273 feet. 
John Vogler was second and C. O. Perry third. 
Perry came in first, with 1080 feet 3 inches, 
casting in a lane thirty feet wide, with a four 
ounce lead. Dr. Simon was second and May¬ 
nard Day was third. In the third event, casting 
at a stake 140 feet from the starting line, F. F. 
Fech came within 2 feet inches of the stake. 
B. N. Kurtz was a close second; J. G. Young, of 
Newark, was third. 
In the distance event, John Clayton was second 
to Dr. Simon, and Howard Kain, president of 
the Ocean and Steam Fishing Club, was third. 
Mrs. F. J. Ernst made the best mark in the 
event open to women, that of casting in open 
field. She touched the 294 feet 3 inch mark, j 
with Mrs. C. L. McLaughlin following her, and 
Mrs. W. H. Scott coming in next. 
Many men have many minds and so there are ! 
many kind of sights for many shooters modern 
sights for modern arms made by D. W. 
King have shown that King has done his part in 
giving hunters and sportsmen an opportunity to 
prove their ability in sighting and marksmanship j 
by inventing sights for all conditions and lights J 
fine and course, light or dark. Like most really 
important inventions they are simple in the ex¬ 
treme, yet strong and enduiable, so much so the 
heads cannot come off no matter how roughly 
used, and sightly with all. Records made with 
them, not only by the writer himself, but by 
hunters and sportsmen as well have proved for 
the sportsmen in general their reliability and 
practicability. Further particulars from D. W. 
King, Denver, Colorado. 
AN OLD FRIEND SURRENDERS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
As one of the most obstinate believers in the 
fact that Forest and Stream was better as a 
weekly, and unconditionally impossible as a 
monthly, I have within the last months received 
quite a set-back to my notions. My wrangle 
with the publishers will go down as a monumen¬ 
tal plea. I pointed out in seven different ways 
how Forest and Stream as a monthly would be 
an inconceivable collapse. The president of 
Forest and Stream bade me wait and see. 1 
waited, and with the receipt of the last number, 
the August number to be exact, I am come to 
think that the impossible has magically become 
the possible, for the magazine now rivals com¬ 
parison. To all effects it would s*eem that the 
magazine’s future, if it climbs in this manner, is 
more than assured. Bearing, as it does, a crys- 
talization of the best outdoor writing extant we 
can well hope that it will not falter and fail and 
that the foundation is firm bedded. Forest and 
Stream as a monthly, and at such a low price., 
should interest newer and new friends, enrolling 
them among the many readers. 
Robert Page Lincoln. 
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