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FRANK LAWRENCE, 384 Third St., BROOKLYN, N.Y. 
of England was high man with a score of 95, second 
was W. J. Stanton of Providence with 9:. Winners 
in the other classes were as follows: 
Clast a, R. Dewick and W. J. Weaver tied for first, 
8g. won by Dewick in shoot-off; second, Rainer, 88. 
Class 3, W. Dring and Hammond tied for first, 85, 
won by Dring in shoot-off; second, George Eggers, 84. 
Class 4. W. Lecompte, A. Menard and Tallman tied 
for first, 78, won by Tallman in shoot-off; second. 
Barker. C Letendre and Williams tied for second, 74, 
won by Williams in shoot-off. Class 5, first, Mott. 70; 
second, J. Audette, 69. 
Gate City Gun Club. 
The Tournament Shoot of the Gate City Gun Club 
at Atlanta, Ga., was held on September 6th. Of the 
amateurs the high shot was J. B. Barrett breaking 
ipi out of a possible 200. Jno. Chafee and Geo. Col¬ 
lins tied for second with too, A. F. McKissick was 
third with score of 186. High professional was Walter 
Huff with 194. 
Ogdensburg Shooting Ass’n. 
The Labor Day Shoot of the Ogdensburg Shooting 
Association was called for ten events of 15 targets 
each. Out of the 150 shot at J. C. Howland was first 
with 147. L. Brissont and H. J. Pendergast tied for 
second with 139 and W. P. Twizzv and W. E. Cor- 
field tied for third with 137. High professional was 
Sam Glover with score of 146. 
Latona Gun Club. 
At Covington, Ky„ on September qth the Latona 
Gun Club held a registered shoot. Out of 150 shot 
at R. H. Bruns broke 144, winning first place; H. R. 
Bonser was second with 143 and H. T. Meyers, third 
with 142. Of the participating professionals C. 0 . 
LeCompte was high with a break of 141. 
Bristol Gun Club. 
The registered shoot of the Bristol Gun Club of 
Bristol, Tenn., held on September 10th, was a de¬ 
cided success from every standpoint, forty-six shooters 
participating. The program called for 200 birds shot 
at. W. H. Cochran of Bristol was high over all with 
103 breaks to his credit, C. A. Burks of Knoxville, 
Tenn., second with 190 and A. M. Hatcher of Bristol, 
third with 188. Mr. C. E. Goodrich was high profes 
sicnal with 192. The long run of the tournament was 
made by Mr. C. A. Burks with 81. 
Hooper Gun Club. 
The Hooper Gun Club of Hooper, Nebr., held a reg¬ 
istered shoot on September 8th. The program called 
for 180 birds. The high amateur of the shoot was C. 
L. Waggoner with a score of 144 to his credit. C. 
Morehouse and E. Sasse tied for second with 141 and 
M. Thompson was third with 139. The high profes¬ 
sional was Ed. O’Brien with a score of 147. 
Youghiogheny Country Club. 
At McKeesport, Pa., on September 6th, a goodly 
number showed up for tjie 7th shoot of the Y. C. C. 
Dr. Heisey was high gun with 47 out of a possible 
.9., Calhoun followed closely with a 45 and J. W. 
Wilson was third wi th 43 - 
MORE ABOUT THE SAFETY PISTOL. 
By Louts E. Tuzo. 
To be prepared to defned one’s self and country, 
is only manly and patriotic, and, in order to be 
prepared, one must understand the care and 
handling of firearms with safety. Unfortunately, 
a large proportion of our citizens take no interest 
in firearms, many of them largely because they 
are afraid of them, or are afraid to keep them in 
the house with children. * 
It would seem then, that the first thing to do 
to get up interest in the shooting game, would be 
to have an arm made for home protection; that 
would be absolutely safe. What is needed is a 
revolver for home protection and target practice, 
of attractive lines, the handle or grip so shaped 
that it will fit the hand, or, could be easily 
altered to do so (by the owner.) 
It should have an automatic safety that would 
protect the cartridge. The safety release lever 
or button of which could be easily removed, as 
is the switch key on an automobile. This would 
permit the owner to keep his revolver loaded all 
the time for home protection; the release key 
could be removed from the arm every morning 
and put in his pocket or elsewhere, then if his 
children should find the arm during the day, play 
with it, and get action by pulling the trigger 
and having the hammer fall, no harm would re¬ 
sult. When desiring target practice all he would 
have to do would be, to insert the safety release 
lever—move it when he gets to the firing 
line as is now done in many automatic 
pistols, and he is ready to fire. The rear sight 
should be movable and centre of bore scored on 
top of frame and base of sight,. 
This would allow the many then of inquisitive 
and experimental turn of mind to make and put 
of their own wind-gaug£ and elevating sight or 
get one from the manufacturers of sights—when 
a man gets to experimenting he has gotten up 
interest, not only in himself but also in his 
friends, thus the game is boosted^.. A friend of 
mine owns'j nearly 30 arms not one of which is 
now as it came frotio the factory. This man has 
a number of friends and they have &11 heard of 
his experiments and have made experiments 
too and told their friends. So, has not 
this one man done a lot toward boost¬ 
ing the game—and if he has—could not the 
manufacturers do 100 per cent, more boosting by 
furnishing $ms such as are needed by those not 
now interested in the game. 
Judging by the unexpected and vast number 
or replies received from “Constftctive Criticism” 
in the September issue, it would appear that “the 
little things in life” do count with lawyers, 
architects, army and navy officers, hunters, busi¬ 
ness men and shooters. Strange as it may seem 
manufacturers’ lack of interest is interesting 
particularly because many articles have appeared 
recently in regard to the safety of pistols, re¬ 
volvers, rifles and guns, also the safe handling 
of them. It would appear that they either admit 
the claim, by ignoring it, or do not care to deny 
it, or, do not take interest enough in their own 
products to read articles in magazines devoted 
to their interest—of all the replies to the article, 
but two agree with it and these two in one 
particular only. One—a shooter of considerable 
experience says he. personally does not want a 
safety on any pistol he shoots, but he admits 
that as made they are not safe. He forgot that the 
articles stated that pistols and revolvers as made 
were safe for the man who knows about arms 
and is careful in handling them—further that the 
article was written for the benefit and in the 
interest of the novice and householder—to 
awaken in him an interest in the shooting game 
and make him an asset of his country in that he 
would be in a measure prepared. 
The second—a lawyer and an experienced 
hunter says that accustomed as he has been for 
many years not to point or practice aiming, 
sighting or trigger squeeze with a loaded arm, 
he is not so sure he would care to, or have any 
one do so, near him. But, he says, he would 
soon overcome that feeling—after such an arm 
had been proved safe. A friend of mine, a lawyer 
who lived in a hold-up country a while ago pur¬ 
chased a pistol for self defense. He was not 
interested in firearms at all and what did he buy 
—a cheap 32-calibre revolver with a 2 inch bar¬ 
rel. When asked if he expected to hit any¬ 
thing with it he said, he did not want to 
hurt anyone but he thought if held up, he could 
fire it and scare the hold-up man away—are 
hold-up men so easily scared or are they usually 
prepared to take care of themselves. If we had 
arms that were safe for the novice and house¬ 
holder and more publicity given to target shoot¬ 
ing could not many more rifle and pistol clubs 
be organized and interest grow so that our pistol 
laws would be made for the benefit of the re¬ 
spectable citizen and against the thug and black 
leg—would not the majority of voters, if inter¬ 
ested in the shooting game compel such legis¬ 
lation? 
CORRECTION. 
In printing in the August number a half tone 
illustration of a hunting dog with a rabbit in its 
mouth, Forest and Stream unintentionally omitted 
the line, “Copyright, Photographische Gesell- 
schaft,” and “By Permission of the Berlin Photo¬ 
graphic Co., New York.” Credit should have 
been given in the first instance, but in making 
up the paper the two lines were omitted. 
