Jan. 8, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
77 
United Stetes Revolver Association League. 
The appended League results include matches of Dec. 
30, except those of Los Angeles-San hrancisco and 
Belleville-Portland matches of Dec. 30, the returns of 
which were not received in time to include in this report: 
Won. 
. 4 
Lost. 
0 
Per C’t. 
1000 
. 4 
0 
1000 
. 3 
0 
1000 
. 3 
0 
1000 
. 3 
1 
.750 
. 3 
1 
.750 
2 
2 
.500 
2 
.500 
. 1 
3 
.250 
3 
.250 
. 0 
4 
.000 
. 0 
4 
.000 
3 
.000 
Los Angeles . 
. 0 
3 
.000 
BLESBOK SHOOTING. 
During a short visit to the now historical 
township of Mafeking, I made the acquaintance 
of several members of the Bechu an aland 
Border Police, says a writer in The Scottish 
Field. Rattling good fellows most of them 
were ready for every available form of sport, 
from’ polo or big-game shooting, down to 
ratting with mongrel, weasel-bodied Kaffir curs 
among the native locations and piggeries which 
lav round the outskirts of the town. 
Well do I remember a certain shooting ex¬ 
perience with four troopers of the B. B. P., 
three of whom were old public school men, and 
all good shots and fine riders. Alas! poor R 
and D went down before the Boer bullets on 
the banks of the Modder River, and I know 
not where the other two may be. 
Situate some twenty miles from Mafeking,_ 
along the Molopo River, is a large tract 01 
grass, sage, and bushveldt, which afforded ex¬ 
cellent cover for small game, while antelope 
were also to be found in the district, and i well 
remember one occasion on which we made a 
raid thither. . 
Just as the first gray tokens of morning were 
beginning to appear on the eastern skyline my 
khaki-clad companions and myself, each armed 
with a combined shotgun and rifle, passed out 
of the still slumbering town en route to Jan 
Venters farm, which stood on the banks of the 
Molopo, and which we purposed making our 
headquarters for two or three days. 
The ride thither was more or less uneventtm. 
but upon arriving at the comfortable-looking 
white homestead we found, to our dismay, 
house stables, and out-houses barred and 
locked. Nor was there a living creature to 
be seen on the premises, beyond a beautiful 
tame crowned-crane, which came flapping to¬ 
ward us with loud, hoarse croaks of welcome. 
The homestead was* surrounded with graceful 
and well-grown weeping willows, from the 
boughs of which hung dozens of the long 
pendulous nests of the weaver-bird. A crystal- 
clear spring, or, as the Boer has it, fontein, 
wormed its serpentine course through a growth 
of magnificent ferns, and, in a small artificial 
pond before the front of the house bloomed in 
lovely profusion a dense growth of water lilies 
and other aquatic plants. . . 
We sat down under the shade-giving willows 
to hold a pow wow; the friendly crane doing 
“sentry go” the while. It was agreed, if the 
worst came to the worst—in other words, i. 
Oom Jan and his household did not return be¬ 
fore sunset (like the birds we rose at dawn and 
“roosted” at sundown), that one of the party 
should enter the stables by the window, and 
unlock the door, when the whole “outfit,” men 
and beasts, would have the choice of lodging 
in the building for the night, or seeking a couch 
on the open veldt. This detail settled R., T. 
S. set off on foot to look for red wings 
(poucolin) and korhaan, while D. and myself 
mounted our ponies to hunt for nobler game in 
the shape of a stein or blesbok. 
After a quiet canter of half-an-hour s dura¬ 
tion under a chain of brown boulder-strewn 
kopjes, we arrived at the mouth of a little kloof, 
or valley. Here the ponies were 'tied to a mi¬ 
mosa tree, and my companion and I, having 
each put a No. 3 shot cartridge in the right, and 
a ball ditto in the left chambers of our guns, 
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