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good per cent, was made. The lowest went close to 80. 
In the trophy shoot, at 26 targets, the scores were as 
follows: Harr 22, Bowen 22, Ritter 21, Everhart 20. 
The tie was shot miss-and-out. Harr broke 3, Bowen 
losing his third. 
Ritter, shooting at 60, scored 45, and thinks he could 
have got his last 25 straight, if his old pump hadn’t 
developed a kick like Maud’s, skinning his face and 
forcing him to take the double barrel. 
Everhart, our new member, is going to go some after 
he gets into practice again, to-day being his first shoot¬ 
ing for some years. 
'Rifle 'Range and Gallery . 
Fixlures. 
March 9-16.—New York-Zettler Rifle Club annual cham¬ 
pionship and prize shoot, 159 West 23d St. F. Heck- 
ing, Sec’y. 
May 614.—Charleston, S. C.—National Schuetzen Bund 
fifth triennial schuetzenfest, under auspices of Ger¬ 
man Rifle Club. W. J. D. Heinz, Sec’y. 
Providence Revolver Club. 
Indoor practice has now been taken up in good 
earnest, and the members are settling down to regular 
work. Particular attention is being paid to revolver 
shooting, in view of several prospective telegraph matches 
which are to be shot at 20yds., each club shooting on its 
own range on targets previously signed by the competing 
clubs, the scores telegraphed at close of shoot and tar¬ 
gets forwarded for verification. We expect to shoot 
with Pinehurst, N. C., pistol team, the Portland, Me., 
and Wilmington, Del., clubs. 
Providence readers of Forest and Stream who are in¬ 
terested in the revolver or ,22cal. rifle, would find it to 
their advantage to join our club. We have most excel¬ 
lent facilities for indoor practice, and the expense is 
very small. Practice shoots are held usually every 
Tuesday evening, and the range is open for 50yd. work 
Saturday afternoons throughout the year, and for indoor 
shooting Saturday evenings. Members are allowed free 
use of the range at any time. Prospective visitors 
should take a Cranston Print Works car, stopping at 
Ridge street, Arlington, and will find the long red shoot¬ 
ing house up near the old Fenner ledge. Visitors are 
always welcome, and out of town shooters should al¬ 
ways look up our secretary, A. C. Hurlburt, and visit 
the range. 
Big bore revolvers are becoming more popular with 
our boys for indoor shooting, the latest being a couple 
of .44 new service guns, which are giving a good ac¬ 
count of themselves. 
Our revolver team has received an invitation to visit 
Walnut Hill on Feb. 22 to shoot a match at 50yds. with 
the pistol experts of the Massachusetts Rifle Association. 
The result of this match is easily forecast, we being but 
ordinary shots, while the Massachusetts club has some 
of the best shots in the country. Stage fright and a 
cold day will work havoc with our team on a strange 
range, but the trip will be a most enjoyable one, and 
the experience excellent. We feel it quite an honor 
that the crack men of Walnut Hill should notice our 
club sufficiently to extend this invitation, and hope that 
enough of our men can get away on that day. 
Sec’y Hurlburt appeared at the range Saturday, after 
an absence of nearly seven weeks. He had With him 
an attack of grip, but wanted to get into the game 
again for the Walnut Hill trip. A trial showed him to 
be in poor form, but in the evening a different sort of 
grip took hold, and better work was done. 
Freeman broke into the 90s with pistol, and shot a 
good average. 
There has been a heap of agitation between farmers 
and sportsmen as to whether the deer law should be con¬ 
tinued on expiration next year. The farmers claim ex¬ 
tensive damage, the sportsmen want the deer protected, 
for they have multiplied in this little State to a surpris¬ 
ing number during the past few years, and have become 
a common sight. It seems a pity that they should not 
be protected, and some arrangement made whereby the 
State can reimburse farmers for actual damage done. 
This plan has worked in other States and should here; 
but a commissioner should be appointed to thoroughly 
investigate every complaint, else the prices of farm 
produce to the State will be far above the already high 
prices to the consuming public. 
The greatest argument in favor of not allowing the 
deer to be hunted is the fact that in so thickly popu¬ 
lated a State it certainly would not be safe. Should 
there be even a few open days, every well informed and 
cautious sportsman would hire a safe deposit vault in 
the basement of our largest trust companies, for imagine 
not only the careless shooting of men who hardly know 
a deer from a barnyard bossy, plugging away at any 
moving object and imagine .405 calibers and rifles 
adapted for Rocky Mountain silver-tips used within a 
few miles of any city. The result would be worse than 
the Brownsville, Texas, raid. Yet it would hardly be 
fair to the sportsman to allow the farmer to kill when 
he discovered (?) a deer feeding on a choice garden 
patch, and the summer boarders obliged to watch the 
proceedings. If the white-tails are really not wanted, 
better pass a deer exclusion act, on Chinese lines, and 
then rope and halter the present four-footed inhabitants 
and escort them over the boundaries and appropriate 
money sufficient to fence in the small State against 
further invasion. 
Revolver, 50yds., Standard target: Parkhurst (.38) 86, 
79, 83, 82, 76; Eddy (.38) 72, 76, 72, 76, 77, 72, 73, 73, 82, 
86, 77, 80, 75, 78, 80; Miller (.44), 78, 80; Hurlburt (.44), 
74; Coulters (.22), 71, 76, 71, 73. 
Revolver, 50yds., Creedmoor target: Parkhurst 48, 46, 
49, 46, 45; Eddy. 43, 46. 45, 46, 45, 45, 45, 45, 47, 48, 45, 
45, 45, 45, 48; Miller 44, 44, 47, 46; Hurlburt, 44. 
Revolver, 20vds., Standard target: Eddy (.38), 76, 82. 
79, 84, 87, 78, 77, 76; Miller (.44), 84, 84, 81, 85, 86, 80, 85, 
79, 79, 84, 82, 81. 81, 86, 82, 84, *87; Parkhurst (.38), 84, 
74, 76, 83, 78; Hurlburt (.44), 83, 83, 79, 84; Willard (.44), 
82, 84; Coulters (.22), 79. 61, 66; Gardiner (.22), 77, 74, 77, 
77, 71, 79, 75, 80, 73, 76, 82, 80, 78, 87, 77, 78, 86; Gardiner 
(.38), 73, 76, 78; Mayo (.22), 70, 63, 60; Argus (.45), 70, 
88, 77, 77, 87; Freeman (.22), 82, 84, 88, 90. 
*Pistol. 
Rifle, 25yds.. 14in. ring: Coulters *232, 237, 236, 239, 
240, 237, 236, 234, 242; Mayo, 235, 237, 235, 237, 236, 236, 
241. 
*Medal scores. 
Rifle, 25yds., Standard: Coulters, 83, 88, 80, 80, 84. 
Military rifle, reduced Creedmoor target,’ miniature 
load: Coulters (.30 Krag), 46, 46; Parkhurst (.30 Krag), 
40, 42, 46, 40, 42, 43- Jefferds (.32 Winchester), 34, 39, 33, 
36, 40; Mayo (.30 Krag), 43, 44, 43, 43, 44. 
The annual meeting of the Providence Revolver Club 
was held Saturday evening, Feb. 9. The officers elected 
for the present year are: President, W. Burt Gardiner; 
Vice-President, Wm. Almy; Secretary-Treasurer, Arthur 
C. Hurlburt, Box 299, Providence, R. I. 
Executive Committee: W. B. Gardiner, A. C. Hurl¬ 
burt, Edw. C. Parkhurst, A. B. Coulters, H. C. Miller. 
Range Committee: H. C. Miller, Arno Argus; W. H. 
Willard, Range Officer. 
Executive Officer. W. H. Willard. 
The members spent a very pleasant evening discussing 
the club’s past year’s success, and plans for the present 
year. 
The club possesses the best revolver range and indoor 
gallery in the State; has a comfortable balance of cash 
on hand, and has grown steadily into a substantial or¬ 
ganization of congenial shooters. 
Every one interested in revolver, pistol or rifle shooting 
is invited to join, and upon application to the secretary 
will receive full particulars. The expense of member¬ 
ship is slight, and up-to-date facilities are obtained at 
the range for practice, the range being at disposal of 
members any evening during the week. Regular shoots 
are held at the indoor gallery every Tuesday and Satur¬ 
day evening, and also on Saturday afternoons. 
The club has a very good revolver team, and although 
not devoting much attention to rifle shooting, excepting 
with the .22cal. at short range, has a fair team for mil¬ 
itary rifle work at the longer ranges, there being four 
Krags, one new Springfield and a .30cal musket in the 
organization. 
Nearly every member possesses a revolver, ranging 
from .32 to ,45cal., and the club is open to a revolver 
match with organizations in other cities by the tele¬ 
graph system, whenever convenient dates can be ar¬ 
ranged. 
Cumberland Valley Rifle Association. 
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 9. —The first shoot of the Cum¬ 
berland Valley Rifle Association was held to-day, with 
the following results: George L. Cottwerth 45, Charles 
Dinkle 25, William A. Failor 36, Philip Six 38, Moses 
Braught 31, H. E. Donson 25, W. C. Hughes 27, Cott¬ 
werth won gold medal. 
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