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FOREST AND STREAM 
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World’s Record for Tournament 
Shooting Made by Lester S. 
German, with 499 x 500, and 647 
x 650 on all 16 yard Targets, in¬ 
cluding Practice Day with Runs 
of 372 and 149 stra'ght at the 
Westy Hogans at Atlantic City, 
September 15 to 17, 1915. 
PARKER DOUBLE GUN 
Makes World’s Record 
Winner of professional average, Lester S. German, with 499 x 500; winner of amateur average, 
woolfolk Henderson, with 493 x 500; third winner of amateur average, Allen Heil, with 485 x 500; winner 
double championship, Woolfolk Henderson, 86 x 50 pairs; second in double championship, Guy V. Deering, 85 
x 50 pairs; third in double championship, Allen Heil, 84 x 50 pairs; Sousa Trophy, won by Woolfolk 
Henderson, with 100 straight; Shanley Trophy, won by Allen Heil, with 99 x 100, and 19 on the shoot- 
le ,, We sty Hogan’s Trophy, Allen Heil, with 100 stra ght; National 18 yard championship, won by 
Allen Heil, 97 x 100. 
In addition to the above, PARKER GUNS figured prominently in the winning of many other high 
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PARKER BROS., Meriden, Conn. 
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SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED, Newark, n.j. 
Received the 
Gold Medal and Highest Award 
For 
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SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED 
NEWARK, N.J. :: SAN FRANCISCO :: ST. LOUIS :: CLEVELAND :: MONTREAL 
The Executors of the Estate of Michael Piel offer for sale 
Share of Stock in the 
BACK BAY GUNNING CLUB OF NORFOLK, VA. 
owning one of the finest American wild-fowl gunning islands along the Atlantic Coast; 
membership in the club small and limited by the Club’s By-Laws. Price, $ 3,000. 
Further information will be gladly furnished. 
BR00KrYN a N d Y Ge ° rgia ATe8 ‘ THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL PIEL, 
Phone: East n.y. 2700 WM. PIEL, Executor. 
preserves their species, and extends and enlarges 
their means of subsistence and enjoyment. But 
for its protection for game purposes, the deer 
would probably be extinct in New England today. 
As it is, the beautiful creatures range through 
every State, and for at least eleven-twelfths of 
the year they are safe from all harm. If life 
is a boon to all creatures that boon is brought 
to thousands by the interest of men killing a 
certain proportion of wild animals and birds for 
sport. 
It is a strange thing, and to many it is in¬ 
comprehensible, that hunting, within the true 
sportsman’s bounds, does not at all develop a 
liking for bloodshed in the human soul. It has 
quite the contrary effect.' It is virtually impos- 
sibe to find a real hunter; who is inhuman. The 
instinct of the hunter lies deep in the human 
soul. It goes back to the very beginnings. It 
is not too much to say that the normal human 
being is a hunter. The “spirit of destruction,” 
if that it is, works from within outward. It is 
a part of the substance of the man, and it is 
possible that it cannot be taken out of him with¬ 
out some harm to his mental and physical bal¬ 
ance. 
Very many of us do not like to shoot or fish. 
We would rather walk contemplatively through 
the woods, exalting our hearts in the beauty of 
nature, and leaving the creatures of God in peace. 
That is our delightful privilege. But whence 
came this out-of-door instinct, this love both of 
nature’s outward aspect and her living beings? 
It came from shooting. There is not a true 
“Out-of-doors man” today whose instinct was 
not developed by ancestral ranging of the woods 
and fields for game. The human instinct of those 
of whose who protect the animals from cruelty 
was built up in the souls of men by generations 
of hunters’ intimacy with animals and birds, and 
by admiration thus acquired for their character¬ 
istics. The ages of hunting has softened the 
human heart. The noblest races were ever the 
greatest hunters. 
Nature's processes can by no means be reversed 
all at once, in this regard or any other. The 
Maine woods will not be deserted this autumn 
because a war-weary world revolts against killing. 
STATE LAWS VS. FEDERAL REGULATIONS. 
New York State gunners are again in a 
quandary because of the confliction between the 
State Game Laws and the Federal Migratory 
Regulations. The State Laws permit the killing 
of small shore birds and surf birds including sand 
pipers, tatlers and curlew whereas the Federal 
regulations say that there is no open season for 
these birds until 1918. Last season the Federal 
regulations were generally observed and doubt¬ 
less they will be followed this season. The con¬ 
flict of State and Federal laws will be argued be¬ 
fore the United States Supreme Court. 
Good Deer Hunting 
Maine State Hunting License reduced 
to $ 1 5.00. Perpetual closed time on Moose. 
A number of Camps, one to three miles 
apart. Accommodations in each camp 
for from one to four sportsmen and their 
guides. Near Canadian Pacific R. R. 
Address Burt Packard, Sebec Lake, Maine. 
