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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 8, 1910. 
Houston, Texas—December 20-22, 1909 
ON 825 TARGETS 
WITH LONG RUNS OF 
129 STRAIGHT 
ON DECEMBER 21 
252 UNFINISHED 
ON DECEMBER 22 
This remarkable shooting by Mr. Woolfolk Henderson 
makes a fitting close to the records of the year 1909. 
We have been continually recommending to our friends the 
use of 'Regular and Reliable brands of Smokeless at the 
traps and in the field, and the above score is only another 
example of Results when using 
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Sam LovePs Boy. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Price, $1.25. 
Sam Lovel’s Boy is the fifth of the series of Danvis 
books. No one has pictured the New Englander with 
t? F} 110 * 1 insight as has Mr. Robinson. Sam Lovel and 
Huldah are two of the characters of the earlier books 
in the series, and the boy is young Sam, their son, who 
grows up under the tuition of the coterie of friends that 
we know so well, becomes a man just at the time of the 
Civil War, and carries a musket in defence of what he 
believes to be the right. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the rufifed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of "Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the forms 
of practice followed were his own. This then may be 
termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it was 
successful in his own experience, being here set forth 
simply and intelligently, it will prove not less effective 
with others. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
When writing say you saw the ad. in “Forest 
and Stream.” 
'Rifle Range and Gallery . 
National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C.—Important legislation designed to 
promote practice with the military rifle may be enacted 
by Congress this winter. The Army and National Guard 
have been equipped with the new Springfield, but the 
expense of obtaining these weapons from the Govern¬ 
ment has restricted practice among civilians. Some 
hundreds of thousands of Krags have been retired, how¬ 
ever, and if available for issue would doubtless be an 
incentive to civilians to practice. Representative Hull, 
of Iowa, chairman of the House Committee on Military 
Affairs, has therefore introduced a bill on the subject 
which has the approval of the War Department as repre¬ 
sented by the Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of 
\\ ar, Oliver, Chief of Staff and Chief of Ordnance, as 
well as of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle 
Practice and the National Rifle Association of America. 
The bill provides that the Secretary of War is author¬ 
ized to issue, without expense to the United States, 
magazine rifles and appendages, not of the existing 
service model. These are to be issued to rifle clubs 
organized under the rules of the National Board for 
Promotion of Rifle Practice, and to schools having uni¬ 
formed corps of cadets. The Secretary of War is author¬ 
ized to prescribe regulations to safeguard the United 
States against loss and for the proper care of the arms. 
Should the bill become a law the limit of issue would 
probably be fixed at about one rifle to each ten members 
of a club in good standing. 
A second section of the bill provides for the promo- 
tion of rifle practice in schools, colleges, universities and 
civilian clubs by supplying certain ammunition, prizes, 
the holding of matches, and in other directions, for 
which the sum of $100,000 is appropriated. 
Up to the present time this country has done nothing 
for its civilian rifle clubs, which are comparatively few 
in number, while in England it is estimated there are 
nearly three thousand with a membership of possibly 
half a million men and boys. The work with the civilian 
clubs is designed to reach the “unorganized militia,” 
which would constitute the bulk of our volunteer armies 
in case of war. On this subject Gen. Bell, the Chief of 
Staff, recently said, “The encouragement of rifle prac¬ 
tice among our citizens and schoolboys is of the greatest 
importance in this country, where preparedness for war 
is largely based on the employment of an army of vol¬ 
unteers; and wisely framed 'laws which will give a 
healthy stimulus to this branch of military preparedness 
would receive the hearty support of the War Depart¬ 
ment.” 
Los Angeles (Cal.) Revolver Club. 
In the United States Revolver Association League 
contest between the Portland, Ore., Revolver Club and 
the Los Angeles Club, Dec. 9, the official scores are as 
follows: 
Portland Revolver Club. 
Capt T T Moore 
. 38 
44 
38 
37 
44—201 
W Hanson . 
39 
40 
38 
45—202 
W H Hubbard.. 
42 
40 
42 
38—205 
F L Sanders. 
. 38 
41 
37 
44 
41—201 
Geo W Wilson.. 
. 34 
48 
34 
46 
45—207—1016 
Los Angeles Club. 
1 C Douglas . 
40 
39 
44 
38-200 
L M Packard. 
. 37 
38 
40 
43 
34—192 
W E Smith. 
. 33 
41 
42 
47 
36—199 
H D Thaxter. 
39 
38 
44 
33—199 
A B Douglas.... 
. 44 
46 
43 
46 
42—221—1011 
Portland won by 5 points. 
The unofficial scores of the Lo 
s A 
ngeles 
Club in the 
League contests of Dec. 
9 and 23 
are 
: as 
follows: 
Match of Dec. 
9: 
W E Smith. 
. 33 
42 
43 
36 
41—195 
A B Douglas.... 
. 43 
38 
38 
42 
44—205 
H D Thaxter. 
. 39 
39 
38 
43 
33—192 
R T Frazer . 
. 44 
35 
38 
40 
41—19S 
I C Douglas. 
. 43 
39 
43 
38 
36—199—989 
Match of Dec. 
23: 
L M Packard. 
. 42 
37 
32 
38 
44—193 
A B Douglas. 
. 47 
46 
41 
45 
42—221 
W E Smith. 
. 39 
45 
39 
41 
38—202 
1 C Douglas. 
. 37 
42 
38 
34 
41—192 
J E Holcomb. 
. 36 
37 
36 
38 
32—178—987 
Unofficial scores of 
Los Angeles team 
in League 
match of Dec. 16 
are as 
follows: 
W E Smith. 
. 41 
38 
41 
33 
45—198 
H D Thaxter. 
. 30 
38 
39 
40 
44—191 
A B Douglas. 
. 37 
45 
40 
43 
43—208 
R T Frazer . 
. 41 
39 
39 
39 
42—200 
I C Douglas. 
_ 43 
37 
43 
43 
43-209-1006 
The following scores were made on the indoor range 
at 716 South Olive street, Dec. 22: 
Revolver, 20yds.: Will A. Wright 90, 90, 91; L. M. 
Packard 82, 86, 86, 84, 89; W. E. Smith 84, 85, 83; T. W. 
Siefert 76, 74, 85; H. D. Thaxter SI, SO, 81. 
Pistol, 20yds.: C. B. Hubbs 76, 76, 79, 80, 76, 76. 
I. C. Douglas, Sec’y. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, Dec. 29.—At 2628 Broadway to-day the 
following scores were made: 
Revolver, 20yds.: G. C. Miller 80, 79; A. L. A. Him- 
melwright 88, 86; E. Schnitzler 85, 84, 84, 84 83; M 
Hays 87, 86, 81; W. MacNaughton 86, 85, 85, 84; B F 
Wilder 87, 86, 85; J. L. R. Morgan 90, 87, 86, 85, 84; 
R. F. Criado 81; E. G. Toel 90, 85, 83, SI; Dr. J. R. 
Hicks 88, 87, 84; J. A. Baker 85; Dr. R. H. Sayre 93, 85; 
J. A. Dietz 90; G. Grenzer 83, 83, 82, 81; j. E. Silliman 
86 , 85. 
Jos. E. Silliman, Treas. 
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