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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 straight at the 
Westy Hogans at Atlantic City, 
September 15 to 17, 1915. 
PARKER DOUBLE GUN Makes World’s Record 
Woo^ofk^enderson^wUh 4 ^ 3 1*500f'th^nftanner^^amateuT^averaee X iii°’ ^ ° f a “ ate « average, 
double championship, Woolfolk Henderson 86 x so nalrs- ? Heil, with 48s x 500; winner 
x 50 pairs; third in doublecLunpionshlS’ Allen* l‘^Sl“ e «'iS amp Sf n, ¥ p * ^ V ' Peering, 8 S 
Henderson, with 100 straight; Shanley Trophy” won W 4 Allen°H,m rS 4 rfH? USa Troph7, _ won b 7 Woolfolk 
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Fditor Forest and Stream: 
At last we have the much disputed fur seal 
fishery reported upon by “unprejudiced” inves¬ 
tigators. 
Their report is a document which is well worth 
considering. 
In order to dispose of this subject of frequent 
congressional controversy, the Department of 
Commerce requested the National Academy of 
Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution and the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture of nominate “persons 
free from all previous connection with the sub¬ 
ject” to visit the seal islands and investigate. The 
naturalists selected, Prof. G. H. Parker of Har¬ 
vard University, Mr. W. H. Osgood of the 
Chicago Museum and Mr. E. A. Preble of the 
Biological Survey, have on the whole, performed 
their task well, although we are not able to re¬ 
concile all of their conclusions, relative to breed¬ 
ing males with the statistics which they present. 
Many years of ocean sealing has reduced the 
great seal herd to a mere remnant of its former 
size. The wasteful practice was fortunately ended 
by international treaty in 1911. It had for years 
been the object of all Americans concerned with 
the preservation of the fur seal to do away with 
pelagic sealing and the reports against it year 
after year, actually number many volumes. 
It is gratifying to learn [we quote from the re¬ 
port] that the herd now “contains upward of 
294,000 animals.” “There are not less than 93,- 
250 mature breeding cows.” “Male life for the 
future is more than assured.” “The increase was 
accomplished in spite of land killing and was 
wholly due to the cessation of pelagic sealing.” 
During the period from 1880 to 1911 approxi¬ 
mately 900,000 skins were secured and marketed 
by pelagic sealers.” In this connection the in¬ 
vestigators remark on “the futility of efforts at 
protection on land while wholesale destruction 
went on at sea,” and state that it is “practically 
impossible to show that any land killing during 
American ownership has been excessive/* 
From 1890 to 1895 the number of seals killed 
on land was 80,482; during the same period 
pelagic sealers took 295,965 and caused the death 
of at least several times as many more.” “The 
reduced killing [on land] of the last three years 
has already provided a great excess of males,” 
at best only 1 male to 35 females being re¬ 
quired for breeding.” 
“The seal herd is small only by comparison. Ac¬ 
tually it is large and growing rapidly,” and “is in 
excellent physical condition.” “The maintenance 
of a supply of harem bulls in the ratio of one 
bull to forty bearing cows, meets all possible de¬ 
mands o. safety and conservation.” “There are 
good reasons both from the standpoint of 
economy and from that of the welfare of the 
herd to resume commercial sealing at once.” “The 
law [restricting killing of surplus males] offers 
no^ compensation for its many disadvantages.” 
“The productive capacity of the herd is equal 
to that of an enterprise representing an invested 
capital of at least ten millions of dollars.” A 
matter closely related to commercial sealing on 
the Pribilofs is the killing of blue foxes, which 
until quite recently have been abundant there. 
The report refers to the fox industry in part, as 
follows: 
“The blue fox industry [on the Pribilof Is¬ 
lands], capable of yielding $50,000 or more per 
annum is reduced to small proportions through 
