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FOREST AND STREAM 
Get A 
Hand Trap 
and practice field shooting. 
Slip one in the locker of 
your boat, or under the 
seat of your motor car. 
Pack one in your vacation 
outfit. Enjoy the sport of 
shooting where and when 
the spirit moves. 
The mm Hand Trap 
is a portable gun club—little in size but big in enjoyment. It throws all 
kinds of targets and is bully practice for both beginners and experts. 
Folds up—goes easily into the average suit case and is ready for use at all 
times. Costs $4.00 at your dealer’s. If he can’t supply you we’ll send it 
postpaid anywhere in the United States upon receipt of price. Get one 
today and add to your summer’s pleasure. 
Write for Hand Trap Booklet No. 3. 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 
WILMINGTON DELAWARE 
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. 
Odorless, colorless, clean to use, 
unaffected by climatic changes, 
Nyoil positively keeps rust 
away from firearms and fish¬ 
ing tackle and makes itself so 
generally useful as to become 
indispensable to the outdoor man. 
The steady growth of its popularity 
among sportsmen is national and due 
to (lie satisfaction obtained from 
its use. Ask your dealer. Large bot¬ 
tle, cheaper to buy, 25 <*. Trial size 10 c. 
Wm. F. Nye, New Bedford, Mass. 
Dixon’s 
Graphitoleo 
You know that fine oils are only temporary 
lubrica_nts for gun mechanisms and reels. Graph- 
itolec has staying qualities, and is a wonder¬ 
ful lubricant and rust preventive as well. 
Send 15c. and dealer’s name 
for a trial tube, No. 52-H. 
Made in JERSEY CITY, N. J., by the 
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company 
ESTABLISHED 1827 
Mohawk Valley Town Will Celebrate Founding 
of Firearms Industry in America. 
At Ilion, N. Y., in that historic country of the Leather 
Stocking Tales, one morning a hundred years ago, a 
young man plucked up courage to ask his father for 
the money with which to satisfy his yearning for a 
rifle. What a yearning it must have been! From the 
little blacksmith shop on the family estate he could 
look off on the hills alive with game. The request was 
refused but the traditional conservatism of American 
fathers suffered one of its worst if not one of its first 
jolts for Eliphalet Remington, Jr., so the familiar story 
of the valley runs, told and retold from father to son 
by many a fireside, picked up scrap iron here and 
there, hammered it into a billet, carried the bar 15 
miles to Utica to have it bored and rifled, and then 
assembled and completed the first Remington rifle. It 
was a well made weapon and there was a demand for 
more. To-day 25,000 workers are making firearms and 
ammunition which go forth under the Remington name. 
The young Remington of a hundred years ago bids 
fair to become very well known to marksmen of the 
present day for Albin Polasek, the Bohemian sculptor, 
is creating in clay, his conception of the making of 
the first Remington. From this model bronze statues 
will be made to be used as trophies for proficiency in 
marksmanship in the National Guard. Moreover, the 
world’s greatest poster artists are competing for a prize 
ot $1,000 in gold for the best poster commemorating 
the Centennial occasion. 
Indeed, it seems an almost uncanny episode in our 
country’s history that the first lasting rifle industry 
should have been staged in the land of the Six Na¬ 
tions, our highest type of American woodsman. 
Billings Plan a Good One. 
The Billings Rod and Gun Club of Billings, Mont., 
says the DuPont Magazine, has a regular shoot pro¬ 
gram that is novel and interesting, and at the same 
time provides a wide diversity of shooting for the 
members, giving them practice in handicap and double 
ta.fcet shooting, as well as singles. Die legular pro¬ 
gram consists of 50 targets, made up of 4 events, as 
follows: 
25 targets at 16 yards. 
5 “ “ 18 “ 
5 “ “ 20 “ 
10 “ (5 pair) doubles. 
Mr. Secretary, try this program out at your club. 
We predict your members will like it. 
New Handicap Idea. 
Out in the Middle West, trapshooting clubs are giv¬ 
ing a new handicap system a trial, which so far has 
proved satisfactory. The system is simple and works 
automatically once it is started. By way of example— 
we will suppose five men are shooting a match in 20- 
target events. They all start at 16 yards. There¬ 
after each man’s handicap in yards is governed by the 
score he makes in the preceding event. A man break¬ 
ing 18 from the 16-yard mark in the first event, shoots 
from the 18-yard mark in the second event. ' Should 
he break 20 in the second event from the 18-yard mark, 
he shoots from 20 yards in the third event. Should he 
break 16 from the 20 yards in the third event, he shoots 
from the 16-yard in the fourth event. Breaking 19 in 
the fourth event, he shoots from the 19-yard mark in 
the fifth event. Suppose he breaks 17 in the fifth event 
his total score would be 90 x 100. The advantage of 
this system is its simplicity. No extra work is neces¬ 
sary by the secretary or handicap committee. Every 
man knows where he shoots the next event and 
promptly takes his proper place when called upon to 
shoot. This system can also be worked in 15 and 25- 
target events, on the same basis as above outlined. A 
man breaking 15 x 15 would shoot from the 20-yard 
mark in the next event, as would a man breaking 25 
x 25. An example of this system follows: 
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....16 20 20 19 19 18 18 19 19 17 93 x 100 
R. Roe .16 19 19 18 18 17 17 19 19 19 91 x 100 
B. Smith ....16 18 18 17 17 16 16 20 20 18 89 x 100 
J. Jones .16 17 17 16 16 20 20 17 17 18 88 x 100 
T. Bones .16 16 16 20 20 19 19 19 19 18 92 x 100 
—DuPont Magazine. 
