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MODEL 1907 SELF-LOADING RIFLE 
.351 CALIBER HIGH POWER. 
Before deciding upon a rifle for your next hunting trip, don’t 
fail to investigate the merits of this new Winchester which 
is reloaded by the recoil of the exploded cartridge. There 
is nothing complicated, cumbersome or freakish about it. 
It is a reliable, handy gun from butt to muzzle. The .351 
Caliber High Power cartridge which it shoots represents 
the latest development in powder and cartridge manufac¬ 
ture. Although small in size, it develops tremendous vel¬ 
ocity and energy, making it powerful enough for the largest 
game. This most modern type of cartridge also possess 
the added advantage of economy. . Owing to the compara¬ 
tively small amount of metal used in the shell it costs 
much less than old style cartridges no more powerful. 
Circular describing this rifle, "The Gun That Shoots Through Steel,” sent upon request. 
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
150, 114, 147; average 139, or 64 per cent, of charge; no 
balling. The 114. though low in the circle figure, was 
good—just outside. The wadding in this set was of 
particularly tight fit. 
So far so good for low potential pattern; but does No. 
5 produce the requisite penetration, or, indeed, is the 
velocity actually below standard? My tests do not go 
to this. I do, however, distinctly find no excessive kick 
when game shooting; indeed, not more perceptible than 
in my 12-bore guns, using 33grs. (33-grain nature) and 
1 l-16oz. 
This 20, when put together, is 51bs. lS^oz.; the steel 
Magnum barrels are 21bs. lO^oz.; thus it is as near as 
may be lib. less to carry than my 12-bore. Of course, 
the figure of pellets given above is for No. 5, i. e., 218 
to the ounce, charge, so must not be compared thought¬ 
lessly with 6 ’s, 270 to the ounce. However, I am not 
upon actual pattern, but on chamber cone and cause of 
balling, and irregular pattern sequences.—W. Baden- 
Powell in Field (London). 
An&lostan Gun Club. 
Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.—The Analostan Gun 
Club, of this city, held its last shoot of the season to-day. 
The members are looking forward to the opening of the 
game season with much pleasure, and a number of them 
have already left for the field, consequently the attend¬ 
ance was lighter than usual. The wind was high from 
the northwest. The targets soared and were elusive. 
Notwithstanding this, some good scores were made, 
notably that of Everett Dufour, who scored 24 out of 25 
in the club contest. In that event the following scores 
were made: Dufour 24, M. Taylor 23, Dr. Shoup 22, Dr. 
Barr 22, Farnhan 21, Hunter 20, Harry Wilson 18, C. S. 
Wilson and Dr. Monroe 17, Barnes 16, and Dr. Stine 15. 
The contest that excited much interest was the cham¬ 
pionship event. This event was provided for at the last 
annual meeting on motion of Dr. Barr, and was to be 
shot on the last meeting in October at 50 targets, the 
winner to receive a trophy emblematic of his victory. 
This shoot resulted as follows: 
M Taylor . 
25 23—48 
H Willson .. 
.... 17 
20—37 
H A Farnham... 
23 21—44 
C S 
Wilson. 
.... 16 
21—37 
Dr Barnes . 
23 21—44 
Dr Monroe . 
.... 19 
17—36 
E Dufour . 
20 24—44 
Dr Shoup ... 
.... 16 
17—33 
T H Hunter. 
21 22—43 
Dr Cobey .. 
.... 19 
13—32 
T)r Barr . 
19 21—40 
Dr Stine . 
.... 12 
8—20 
Willis. 
22 16—38 
Following scores were made in the afternoon: 
Events: 
12 3 
4 
5 6 
7 S 9 
Shot 
Broke. 
Targets: 
10 15 25 
15 
25 25 
10 15 25 
at. 
Stine . 
5 9 15 
10 
12 8 
7 .. .. 
125 
60 
Cobey . 
5 7 14 
8 
19 13 
7 .. .. 
125 
73 
Farnham . 
8 12 21 
23 22 
100 
86 
Barnes . 
9 12 16 
9 
23 21 
8 .. .. 
115 
100 
. 9 12 23 
20 23 
100 
92 
C Wilson . 
. 8 15 17 
16 21 
.. 12 .. 
100 
77 
Monroe . 
. 8 14 17 
19 17 
.. ..16 
125 
91 
. 8 11 20 
21 22 
100 
82 
H Wilson . 
5 9 18 
17 20 
100 
69 
Dufour . 
.10 6 . 
is 
20 24 
8 13 .. 
115 
96 
Barr . 
.. 10 22 
19 21 
9 .. .. 
90 
72 
99 
16 17 
75 
55 
Willis . 
12 
22 16 
9 .. .. 
75 
59 
Events 5 and 6 constituted the championship. 
Miles Taylor, Sec’y. 
New Haven Gun Club. 
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 30.—An account of the in¬ 
vitation shoot, given in honor of Mr. Fred Stone, the 
talented star of the “Red Mill,” whose fame and popu¬ 
larity as an actor transcends to a limited degree his 
fame and popularity as a trapshooter, was quite graphic¬ 
ally published in the New Haven Evening Register, 
which we present herewith: 
If Mr. Fred Stone, equipped with yellow goggles and 
a little diamond “Red Mill” pin in his tie, hadn’t fallen 
off on his last 20 pigeons, he would probably have won 
the invitation shoot given in his honor at the New 
Haven Gun Club yesterday afternoon. He was piking 
along in good shape, beginning with 16 and then making 
two 19s in succession, which, considering the unfavor¬ 
able conditions under which the shoot was held was 
excellent work. On his fourth 20 he dropped to 18, and 
by the time he reached the final round of his 100 , the 
sun had gone behind a bank of clouds, making the shoot¬ 
ing extremely difficult. Mr. Stone missed 5 out of his 
last 20, and totalled 87, just enough to tie him with 
Seneca A. Lewis for second prize. 
Mr. Stone is quite some in the trapshooting line, and 
the visiting experts watched him with interest as he took 
his position on the firing line. He was in the fastest 
five of the bunch, with Lewis, “Little Nemo” Skelly, 
Arcy and Mack, and most of the pigeons were broken 
before they got fairly into the air. 
The sky was clear yesterday afternoon, but that was 
about the only thing favorable for shooting. A brisk 
northwest wind swept down over East Rock, and as soon 
as the traps were thrown the wind would scale the clay 
birds off at all sorts of unknown angles. The man 
who didn’t catch the bird as it rose, found his shot scat¬ 
tered by the wind, so that the misses were frequent. 
Ed. Kelly won the shoot with 90, scoring two 19s, two 
17s and one 18, and shooting consistently throughout the 
afternoon. Ed. Hart came down from Waterbury and 
bundled up in a big blue sweater, shot No. 1 on the 
second five. He tied with F. A. Sherman for third prize 
and won the toss-up. 
In his tour with the “Red Mill,” Mr. Stone usually 
cleans up the local shooters in the towns he visits. Last 
week in Boston the Palefaces gave him an afternoon’s 
sport, and he took the first prize there with 97 out of 
100 , but such a score was well nigh impossible yester¬ 
day. At his home, outside of Denver, Mr. Stone has a 
line of traps, all his own. The park covers fifteen acres, 
and the State tournament will be held there next year. 
The methods of shooting yesterday were strongly con¬ 
trasted, and the work of the first five who stood up to 
the traps aroused the admiration of the visitors, who had 
taken their heavy overcoats and sped out to the end of 
the car line to watch the sport. Most of the shooters 
wore the familiar yellow goggles, at their belts leather 
bags holding 20 cartridges, and gray sweaters kept off 
the cold. J. T. Skelley, known to his friends as “Little 
Nemo,” because he’s only six feet tall and tips the 
beam around 200 , astonished the natives by appearing in 
a magnificent corduroy vest. He shot excellently, but 
there was some trouble with the traps, and many of his 
birds went low. Although the judge called them “no 
birds,” Mr. Skelly took a chance, with the result that 
his vest pocket lacked its load of cigars at the end of 
the afternoon. 
Between the rounds of the shooting, the contestants 
gathered around the stove in the club house, or at a 
place west of there at which there was a polished mirror 
and a foot-rail, and discussed everything from hunting 
in Alaska (Mr. Stone) to the values of smokeless powder 
(Mr. Du Pont Higgins). One enthusiast from Winches¬ 
ter’s had a piece of walrus hide in which was imbedded 
a bullet. This started the hunters on “Hunting in 
Africa,” and the policies of President Roosevelt came 
in for some hot criticism. 
Although there were some crack shots, the gentleman 
who forgot to throw off the safety catch on his hammer¬ 
less was also present. The loud “Pull” was followed by 
no report and a surprised look on the face of the shooter. 
The work of the first five on the trap was something 
worth going a long way to see. All experienced trap- 
shooters, the “Pull” was always followed by a “bang,” 
and before the report had died away the next “Pull” came, 
so that there was a bird on the wing practically all the 
time. Most of them reached the ground in bits, too. 
S. G. Lewis scored the only 20, breaking every bird on 
his fourth trick. 
The contestants shot at five batches of 20 birds each. 
As a result of his work, Mr. Stone will take a sole 
leather gun case with him to the Academy of Music 
next week. 
Rice, Ailing and Dr. Johnson shot on the first rounds. 
The scores: 
Fred Stone . 
. 87 
Rice . 
.... 46 
S G Lewis. 
. 87 
Ailing . 
.... 30 
Skelly . 
. 75 
F A Sherman . 
.... 86 
Arcy . 
. 81 
R PI Smith . 
.... 76 
Mack . 
. 81 
Metcalf . 
Ed Hart . 
. 86 
Dr Nettleton . 
.... 34 
Kelly . 
. 90 
Dr Johnson . 
.... 28 
. 79 
.... 74 
Dr Smith . 
. 76 
Thompson . 
.... 79 
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