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FOREST AND STREAM 
Practice Up Now For This Year’s Trophies 
Be among the first out to pepper the speedy clay pigeons. Get an 
“edge” on the other fellows while the season is still young. 
TRAPSHOOTING 
is bully year ’round sport that offers an alluring challenge to your aim 
and gun skill. And there’s a hearty welcome waiting for you at your 
nearest gun club. 
Get a mm HAND TRAP 
It’s great practice for beginners and experts. Throws all kinds of targets 
—folds up and goes in a bag. $4.00 at your dealer’s or sent postpaid 
anywhere in the United States on receipt of price. 
Write for Hand Trap Book No. 3 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 
WILMINGTON DELAWARE 
When in Atlantic City visit the “Du Pont Store.” Pennsylvania Avenue & Boardwalk—see the big Du 
Pont Night Sign and try your skill at the Trapshooting School at the end of Young’s Million Hollar Pier. 
THE SMITH 
The Gun with a Conscience 
Absolutely Never Shoots Loose PRICES - $25 to $1,000 Net 
ASK FOR OUR ART CATALOG 
The HUNTER ARMS CO., Inc., 80 Hubbard St., FULTON, N.Y. 
25c 
Postpaid 
all lubrication and 
polishing around the 
house, in the tool shed or 
afield with gun or rod 
In the New 
Perfection 
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is a matchless combination 
Sportsmen have known it for years. 
Dealers sell NYOIL at 10c. and 25c. 
Send us the name of a live one who 
doesn’t sell N YOII. with other neces¬ 
saries for sportsmen and we will send 
you a dandy, handy new can (screw 
top and screw tip) containing 3 Vi 
ounces postpaid for 35 cents. r 
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WIGGINS 
Peerless Patent 
Book Form 
CARDS 
many of America’s 
lsersbecause of the 
skill and care exercised in eng'rav- 
a Wig-gins plate. This clientele real¬ 
izes that there is far more to the card ques¬ 
tion than merely buying: so many at so much, 
for tab of specimens, detach the cards one 
one and observe their clean-cut edges and the 
ection afforded by their being encased in con- 
book form style. 
The John B. Wiggins Company 
Makers Established 1857 
Die Embossers 72-74 East Adams Streep Chicago 
men who take an interest in trap-shooting. Men 
who live in places where there are no gun clubs, 
can use a hand trap in the fields near home, and 
have as much fun and even better practise, with 
a friend to take turns with as operator and 
shooter, as if they were standing on the plat¬ 
form and participating in a match. A hand trap 
costs little and a barrel of clay birds less; get 
out in the fields, and not only become prepared 
for the fullest enjoyment of the big “fall drive,” 
but enjoy becoming prepared. The man who 
goes shooting next fall and misses shot after 
shot will have no one to blame but himself. 
TO MY TRAP GUN. 
(A Lay of the Trapshooting Range.) 
By Fred O. Copeland. 
What is this tiny empty hole 
That lurks on a scoreboard on a pole 
And which we curse heart and soul, 
My Trap Gun? 
Where is it out there at the score 
The angles bend more and more 
And where my brow’s a leaking pore, 
My Trap Gun > 
Where is it that I try to sneak 
Be ’twixt squads, when up I leap 
And dash through shells four feet deep, 
My Trap Gun? 
Where is it that I’ll shoot my fill 
And lose my only five dollar bill 
And probably remain until -- 
1 make a “run,” 
My Trap Gun? 
* * * * 
During the usual unfavorable climatic conditions with 
which winter handicaps the larger part of North Amer¬ 
ica many have been forced to lay aside the trap gun 
but now with a more kindly temperature, not unlike 
that which has smiled on the great trapshooting en¬ 
thusiasm at Palm Beach during the winter months, 
the way launches fair to a national program that to 
steal a word from the late Mr. Shakespeare, will be 
a “corker.” 
Present indications are that there will be at least 
i ooo trapshooting competitions of various sizes and de¬ 
scriptions within the boundary of the- United States 
this year, and while we are speaking of a 1,000 why not 
add that the G. A. H. at St. Louis is expected to pull 
i,ooo shooters. 
Although trapshooting has advanced every year for 
15 years, it is only in the last 3 years that its advance 
has taken on the magnitude of _ a Marathon. In 1915 
there were 333 tournaments registered. This year it 
looks as though a total of 500 would be reached. 
In this list increases are shown in 25 States over the 
number of tournaments held last year and in nine 
others decreases are noted. Inside of another month 
it is expected that these nine will equal the mark of 
last year, or better it. For a good many years Penn¬ 
sylvania has led in the number of registered shoots, 
but this season little Iowa seems to have the bulge 
on the Sons of William Penn. Iowa has 48 registered 
tournaments as against 45 for Pennsylvania. This 
makes Iowa look like the best trapshooting Slate in 
the country. There are 220 gun clubs in Iowa; Penn¬ 
sylvania has 492. Iowa has 57 clubs affiliated with the 
State association, while Pennsylvania has 121. The Key¬ 
stone shooters will have to keep stepping to remain 
in front of Illinois, as the Illinois shooters have an¬ 
nounced 43 registered shoots and only have 42 clubs 
affiliated with the State association. Trapshooting is 
coming on faster in the Middle West and Far West 
than it is in the eastern States—and there is no let-up 
in the East. . 
Twelve States have ten or more registered tourna¬ 
ments; ten have more than 15, and five have more than 
20. The list of championships—State, sectional and 
national—and the tournaments as listed last year and 
this are herewith appended: 
State Championships. 
State City Date 
Oklahoma .Oklahoma City.. April 18-19 
Georgia .Atlanta .April 25-26 
Missouri .St. Lopis.May 2-3-4 
Mississippi .Greenville .May 4-5 
Kansas .Emporia .May 16-17 
Pennsylvania .Lansdale .May 17-18-19-20 
New Hampshire... Manchester .May 19-20 
Texas .Dallas .May 22-23-24-25 
Washington .Seattle .May 23-24 
Illinois .La Salle .May 23-24-25 
Nebraska .Grand Island ...May 23-24-25 
Tennessee .Nashville .May 26-27 
Calif.-Nevada .San Jose (Cal.).. May 27-28-29-30 
Utah .Springville .May 30-31 
Iowa .Waterloo .May 30-31, June r 
New Jersey .Little Falls .June 1-2-3 
Oregon .Portland .June 5-6-7 
Maryland .Baltimore _.June 6-7-8 
Indiana . Indianapolis ... .June 6-7-8 
Ohio .Toledo .June 7-8-9 
Colo.-New Mexico.Victor (Colo.) ...June 12-13-14 
Idaho .Twin Falls _..June 12-13 
Vermont .Montpelier .June 13-14 
New York .Syracuse .June 13-14-15 
Michigan .Battle Creek ....June 14-15 
North Dakota .Lisbon .June 15-16 
