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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 9, 1910. 
At Jewell, Iowa, March 23-24 
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WON THE HONORS 
Professional Averages 
Fred Gilbert.381 ex 400 
W. H. Heer.. 379 ex 400 
G. Maxwell.372 ex 400 
C. G. Dockendorf.340 ex 400 
Mr. Heer had a run of 180 including practice targets and two additional runs of 101 each. 
Amateur Averages 
2d—J. Maland.371 ex 400 
Tie for 3d — Fred Slocum.364 ex 400 
4th—J. Kautsky.361 ex 400 
IF YOU ORDER (ggpQgJ) BE SURE YOUR 
DEALER DOES NOT SUBSTITUTE 
Shoot the Powder that 
MAKES and BREAKS RECORDS 
HUNTSM 
Keep 
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lock mechanism in perfect 
ite. Booklet 
JERSEY CITY. N. A 
Sam Lovel's 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 
so much 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 defense of what he 
believes to be the right. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Bolt 
Simplest lock on earth—no cocking levers, bars or push rods— 
cocks direct from toe of hammer ; coil main spring works direct 
on hammer—not around a corner—hammer falls 1-2 inch com¬ 
pared with 1 inch in other guns, making a very fast lock, that 
works like oil, with a quick, clean, sharp, snappy pull. 
Catalog FREE—J8 grades. $ 17.75 net to $300 list. Remember we 
make dainty little 20-gauge guns. 
ITHACA GUN CO 
Ithaca. N. Y 
promises to be a 
i goQd one. Good average 
money 
and 
some nice prizes 
to 
shoot 
for. 
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Shot at. 
Broke 
Shot at. Broke 
Le Noir . 
150 
139 
G Baily . 
.. 50 
34 
Smith . 
130 
104 
T H Smith.... 
54 
T Wells . 
90 
72 
B Black . 
.. 160 
in 
T Senn . 
100 
94 
B Harris . 
.. 125 
95 
H E Smith. 
100 
99 
B Mack . 
.. 70 
50 
Wm Webster ... 
100 
97 
F McNieb .... 
.. 25 
10 
O Shilling . 
75 
72 
J Teal . 
.. 120 
104 
C C Carsen. 
50 
45 
Secretary trophy s 
hoot • 
G Smith . 
... 45 
Wm Webster . 
T Wells . 
... 38 
O Shilling ... 
. 48 
T Senn .. 
... 45 
C C Carson... 
44 
G Bailv . 
H E Smith.. 
... 50 
J H Smith... 
. 42 
L. 
F., Sec y. 
Hillside 
Rod 
and Gun Club 
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Flushing, N. Y., April 2. —Eight members participated 
in the practice shoot this afternoon, and from the scores 
appended, it might seem that the shooting was done 
by moonlight instead of on a bright afternoon: 
Funk ... 
Foster .. 
Gerke .. 
Hall .... 
•Keppel 
Long .. 
Jennings 
V anse . 
Shot at. 
Broke. 
Per 
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...100 
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65 
. 205 
104 
51 
. 200 
152 
76 
. 95 
69 
72 
. 95 
64 
67 
. 115 
88 
76 
. 100 
42 
42 
. 210 
144 
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R. L., 
Sec 
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'Rifle Range and Gallery. 
National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C.—The Senate has passed unani¬ 
mously the Senate bill appropriating $100,000 for rifle 
practice in the schools and universities of the country, 
and among civilian clubs. This bill has been indorsed 
by the War Department and by the National Rifle Asso¬ 
ciation, and has received the support of President Taft 
and ex-President Roosevelt. 
There are at the present time 93 universities, colleges 
and schools where army officers are detailed, with an 
enrollment in the military department of 22,910. These 
include the agricultural schools which receive appropria¬ 
tions under the Morrill Act. Of this number only 3239 
receive outdoor instruction, and 9748 gallery practice. 
In addition to the above institutions, there are 2S private 
military schools, with an approximate attendance of 
2500. Through lack of proper facilities, such practice as 
thev have is of little value. 
The proposed appropriation is to be devoted to civilian 
and schoolboy rifle practice. An interesting exhibit of 
what is being done in other countries to promote rifle 
practice among civilian rifle clubs and in the schools 
accompanied the report made by Senator Briggs. In 
Canada the Dominion Rifle Association receives an- 
nuallv from /the Canadian Government a subsidy of 
$15,000, besides a full allowance of ammunition, amount¬ 
ing to 100.000 cartridges each year. 
The Government of Great Britain donates each year 
to the National Rifle Association of that country, 500,000 
rounds of cartridges for use in the annual contests held 
at Bisley, and furnishes the Bisley meetings with 
soldiers to run the matches and camp equipage for the 
use of competitors. The National Rifle Association of 
that country has an annual income, which last year 
amounted to nearlv $100,000. Affiliated with the^ National 
Association are 200 minor associations and 1700 clubs. 
About 150 schools have cadet corps in which rifle prac¬ 
tice is carried on, and each year there is a contest among 
the schools for a trophy presented bv Lord Ashburton.- 
Australia has a reserve force of 50,000 civilian riflemen 
and appropriates $500,000 annually for ammunition for 
their practice. The railroads in Australia give free 
transportation to members of the rifle clubs when travel¬ 
ing to and from the ranges. Forty thousand schoolboys 
are organized into cadet corps and are furnished arms 
and ammunition by the Government and receive in¬ 
struction in rifle practice. _ 
In France the government issues rifles free to the rifle 
clubs, and last year the free issue of ammunition to such 
clubs cost the government $100,000. The government 
also appropriates $12,000 to the National Society, which 
is used for prizes and decorations. The departments 
co-operate in the teaching of rifle practice to the children. 
The War Department helps with arms and ammunition, 
the Department of Interior with money, and the De¬ 
partment of Public • Instruction by encouraging the de¬ 
velopment of rifle exercises in the schools. Boys under 
seventeen years of age are furnished with the miniature 
rifle, and all over that age with the army rifle. 
In 1882 the Italian government organized an associa¬ 
tion for the purpose of teaching all citizens to properly 
handle the military rifle. This organization is under the 
supervision of the Secretary of YVar, who has his head¬ 
quarters in Rome. Total or partial exemption from 
military duty is given to members of the rifle clubs who 
have profitably taken shooting lessons for two years. 
Shooting grounds are provided at the joint expense of 
the societies, the county where located, and the govern¬ 
ment, which also gives each branch of the National 
Association, according to the number of members, suf¬ 
ficient rifles and sells the ammunition at cost prices. 
The day for practice is always Sunday, so the working¬ 
men can attend the meetings without losing a day’s 
work. A military instructor is in charge to teach the 
rules of shooting, care of the rifle and individual and 
company drill. This instructor is an officer of the army. 
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