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Get inTrim Now for the Game Season 
The game season will soon be here. 
Make sure of a big bag by being in 
form at the start. Get a Du Pont Hand 
Trap and practice field shooting. 
The 
Hand Trap 
is a bully tester of gun skill—fine for both 
beginner and expert. It’s a real machine— 
hand operated and simple—that throws all 
kinds of clay targets. Makes them soar like 
a bird or scud like a jack rabbit. 
BETTER GET ONE NOW 
Costs $4.00 at your dealer’s. If he can’t 
supply you we will send it direct post-paid 
anywhere in the U. S. on receipt of price. 
Hand Trap Booklet No. 3 sent on request 
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. 
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 
The Powder that Wins 
Du Pont, Ballistite, 
Schultze and 
DuPont Black Sporting 
different brands of weather and light. Under 
the old system one shooter might shoot all of 
his events in sunshine and a contestant in a late 
squad might shoot all of his events in a rain 
storm. The day is not over at once for one 
contestant nor is there a wait of almost a day 
for the late shooter. 
LATEST FASHION IN GUN STOCKS. 
RAPSHOOTING has caused shooters to ex¬ 
periment with straighter and straighter 
stocks till they have now lifted them to 
an altitude of comb and heel that a few years 
ago would have been looked on as extreme. 
Moreover, this straightening of the stock for 
trapshooting has been found to be of such ad¬ 
vantage for pointing at flying targets it has by its 
influence straightened the stock of the field gun 
and many are now using the same or a very 
slightly modified stock on upland birds. And 
now we are beginning to see the comb and heel 
of equal measurements, with numerous instances 
of the heel higher than the comb. Mr. Lester 
German, a shooter in the very first row, advo¬ 
cates equal measurements for comb and heel. 
He shoots a gun having an inch and one-quarter 
drop at both comb and heel thereby giving to the 
stock no pitch whatever. Some may say that 
this is all well enough in a trap gun. But Mr. 
German will then take this same gun and snuff 
out the wildest targets that can be thrown with 
a hand trap, targets that have an “english” on 
them to such an extent that they lift away from 
the earth like the horn of the new moon. There 
is this much about it, a stock without pitch, in 
your measurement, will not hook onto your 
cheek bone when it drives straight back at the 
moment of firing. 
HOW TO AIM A RIFLE. 
Walter Winans, the famous American sharp¬ 
shooter, who lives in England, writes to the “Sci¬ 
entific American” the following directions as to 
the proper way to aim a rifle: 
“The way to shoot is, first, put a big ivory 
front sight in place of the black one used for 
target shooting. 
“Most real objects one shoots at are more or 
less dark, and the black front sight is difficult 
to see on the object; the white one shows up 
at once. 
“Next, have your hind sight put on the rifle at 
the distance from your eye that you can read 
print best. 
“When shooting do not try to focus a black 
bull’s-eye, a black front sight and black hind sight 
and a half dozen other things alternately while 
you hold on to your rifle like grim death. 
“Look at the object you want to hit. If it is 
moving, judge how much allowance in front you 
must make; bring up your rifle to your shoulder, 
swinging it with the movement of the object 
you want to hit, and press the trigger as the butt 
touches your shoulder. 
“The bullet will go where you want it to with¬ 
out your noticing sights at all. 
“If you want to be a good rifle shot at game, or 
as a soldier, join the nearest clay pigeon shoot¬ 
ing club, and when you can break 90 per cent, of 
the clays, you can rest perfectly confident that 
you can hit a man every shot you fire if being 
charged by an enemy if you have a rifle in your 
hands instead of a shotgun. 
“If you practice in a ‘coal hole’ rifle gallery at 
a stationary black bull’s-eye with a black front 
sight and see ‘three front sights’ and a ‘blurred 
back sight’ you are not learning to shoot, but 
merely ruining your eyesight.” 
WULF WINS GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP 
Captain John F. Wulf of Milwaukee won the 
Grand American Handicap in the national trap¬ 
shooting tournament at St. Louis, Aug. 25. Op¬ 
posed to Captain Wulf were nearly 700 of the 
best shooters in the United States. He shot 
from 19 yards. 
The Milwaukee man was hard pressed by Eli 
Maland of Jewell, Iowa, who scored 98 from 16 
yards; H. C. Daley of Carlinsville, Ill., who 
shot 97 from 16 yards; C. A. Atkinson of 
Creighton, Mo., who shot 97 from 17 yards, 
and D. C. Rogers of Logansport, Ind., who shot 
97 from 19 yards. Wulf broke the first two 
sets of 20 targets without a miss, failed in his 
third frame, then finished the last two sets of 
20 targets in perfect form. 
No New York shooters finished among the 
winners, but E. L. Bartlett of Baltimore, with 
a score of 95 from 20 yards, kept the East up 
near the top. 
The Middle West’s win in the main event was 
partially compensated by Mrs. Frank Johnson 
of Philadelphia and Mrs. C. B. Dalton of War¬ 
saw, Ind., representing the East, who won the 
special East-West women’s event. They defeat¬ 
ed Mrs. H. L. Potter of Madison, Wis., and 
Mrs. J. L. Hooper of Chicago, representing the 
West, by a score of 43 to 40. 
Phil Miller of Dallas, Texas, won the pro¬ 
fessional championship surprising the entire field 
by beating Homer Clark of Alton, Ill. Clark 
had won every event in which he entered dur¬ 
ing the tournament with scores of 99. The two 
shooters tied at 97, and then Miller broke 25 
straight to Clark’s 24. 
Mrs. C. B. Dalton of Warsaw, Ind., won the 
women’s championship over Mrs. Potter by a 
score of 23 to 20. 
The five high scores in other events were: 
National Amateur Doubles Championship.— 
Allen Heil, Allentown, Penn., 89; Frank Troeh, 
Vancouver, Wash., 88; J. Seahorn, Mineral 
Ridge, Ohio, 81; G. V. Dering, Columbus, Wis., 
80; B. S. Donnelly, Chicago, 80. 
Special for women.—Mrs. H. Almert, Chicago, 
45; Mrs. L. G. Vogel, Detroit, 48; Miss H. D. 
Hammond, Wilmington, Del., 44; Miss L. Mue- 
sel, Green Bay, Wis., 44; Mrs. F. A. Johnson, 
Philadelphia, 43. 
A technical review and analysis of the meet, 
with comment from the trapshooter’s standpoint, 
is being prepared for Forest and Stream by Fred 
C. Copeland, and will be published in the next 
issue. 
American Duck Shooting 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
No single gunner, however wide his ex¬ 
perience, has himself covered the whole 
broad field of duck shooting, and none 
knows so much about the sport that there 
is nothing left for him to learn. Each one 
may aquire a vast amount of novel infor¬ 
mation by reading this complete and most 
interesting book. It describes, with a por¬ 
trait, every species of duck, goose, and 
swan known to North America; tells of 
the various methods to capture each, the 
guns, ammunition, loads, decoys and boats, 
used in the sport, and gives the best ac¬ 
count ever published of the retrieving 
Chesapeake Bay dog. 
About 600 pages, 58 portraits of fowl, 
8 full-page plates and many vignette head 
and tail pieces by Wilmot Townsend. 
Price, library edition, $3.50. 
FOREST and STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
128 Broadway, NEW YORK. 
