FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream Is an Honorary Member of the Interstate Association for the Promotion of Trapshooting. 
REMINGTON 
UMC 
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ELLS 
When a Covey Flushes with a YFhir-r-r 
at Your Feet— 
or the trap hoy rings in an unexpected angle on 
you—it's a moment to malce a man glad of the 
“Speed Shells in his gun—Remington UMC 
steel lined smokeless shells. 
Sportsmen everywhere are noting the consistently 
satisfactory shooting results achieved every day with 
“Arrow” and “Nitro Club” shells at traps and afield. 
There are thousands of good old guns and new that 
mean much more to their owners since the change from 
ordinary shells to Remington UMC. 
The steel lining makes the mam difference. It 
grips the powder and keeps all the drive of the explo¬ 
sion right behind the charge— the fastest shot shells in 
the world. 
You'll find the Remington UMC Arrow and 
“Nitro Cluh smokeless shells and the “New Cluh 
Hack fowder shells at Sportsmen's Headquarters in 
every town—the dealer who displays the Red Ball 
JVlark of Remington UdVlC. 
THE REMINGTON ARMS UNION METALLIC 
CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
Largest Manufacturers of Firearms and Ammunition in the \VorJd 
\Voolworth Building, New York 
Edited by Fred. O. Copeland. 
The design of this department is to diffuse 
among all who are interested in trapshooting cor¬ 
rect information of nation-wide interest on the 
sport, to familiarise its readers with the develop¬ 
ments in guncraft both for the trap and the field; 
but it cannot hope to include the now enormous 
mass of trapshooting scores made each month 
throughout the nation. In fact, this department 
is bound to place before its readers more inter¬ 
esting matter than columns of figures. 
Let’s Get ’Um All. 
In the Spring a cherished hope rises in the shooter's 
breast; 
In the Spring he asks the new trap-gun to do better 
than his best; 
In the Spring he’ll show ’um what he learned that 
shoot last Fall; 
In the Spring, sir, all of us pray most fervently to 
get them all. 
Lewis Class System Popular. 
In the matter of the division of trophies at both 
large tournaments and small shoots the Lewis Class 
System seems to be quite fashionable this year. That 
fascinating thing we call luck enters and in fact comes 
to the front so bewitchingly that the 50 per cent, as 
well as the 95 per cent, shooter is enticed a long way 
from home when the program announces a goodly array 
of attractive trophies to be awarded Lewis Class Sys¬ 
tem. To be a success a tournament must be well at¬ 
tended and a tournament management recognizes the 
powerful advertising value of this system. Even though 
it were possible to know accurately the target smash¬ 
ing ability of the visiting contestants, both the man¬ 
agement and the prospective contestants know it is 
impossible to say who shall be hailed to the “office,” 
who shall have his name called out when the day is 
done. Lucky indeed is he who falls into a place by 
himself and may pack his gun away, his mind undis¬ 
turbed by the thought that although he has fallen in 
the magic circle in one of the classes he must needs 
call up his very Nth power of skill at the eleventh 
hour to win the elusive prize in a shoot-off. 
Small Proportion of Distance Shooting. 
In spite of the fact that distance handicap shooting 
is charming sport and in use at the largest shoots, it 
is rare indeed that we get a program calling for or a 
score sheet indicating distance shooting. Two in¬ 
stances of distance shooting have come to our notice 
recently. The Hoosatonic ±c. & G. Club of Stratford, 
Conn., ran a special distance handicap event at their 
first annual registered tournament April 1st. L. C. 
Wilson, a contestant at this tournament, went straight 
on the 25 targets from the 22 yard mark thereby win¬ 
ning the first prize, $20 in gold. The second case is 
that of the Morris G. C. of Morris, Ill., in their shoot 
•on April 12th, and some high scores were turned in from 
some very lonesome yard marks. 
The Elapse of Time Between ‘‘Pull” and the 
Crack of the Nitro. 
The hands of the clock have not traveled far since we 
timed the shooters at a tournament where the nation’s 
best were participating. After the time was ascertained, 
based on a number of readings, a man of nation-wide 
trapshooting experience was asked to guess the length 
of time between the call for the target and the report 
of the gun. His guess was far off and it will be of 
interest to know -that the time ran very evenly on 3 
seconds. This was proved out further by timing a 
squad down the line for 5 targets and the short in¬ 
terval between the referee’s decision and the next con¬ 
testant’s call was almost 0 for the squad’s time ran 
from 15 to 17 seconds. 
Furthermore, it is interesting to note that in a field 
of 29 very lively squads shooting 25 target events in 3 
sections over 3 automatic traps with the height of effi¬ 
ciency in “squad hustling” a man would wait just 
one hour between his last shot in any one event and 
his first shot in his succeeding one; this of course under¬ 
standing he did not shoot down the line of the 3 traps- 
Trapshooting Strengthens the Nerves. 
The great and popular detective of fiction, Sherlock 
Holmes, once admitted that a man’s knees were the 
