June ii, 1910.] 
TRAP NOTES. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
925 
The Macaulay Shoot. 
_May 30.—The Fred Macaulay Business Men’s Gun 
Club, of Newark, N. J., held its biggest shoot to-day 
since the club has 'been organized, there being 2,900 
targets thrown from the traps. The feature of the day 
was a match of 25 birds between C. W. Billings and 
George L. Lyon, in which Lyon won with a score of 
23 to Billings’ 22. Billings, however, was the only shoot¬ 
er who made a clean score of 25 during the day. There 
4 were a number of 23s and 24s. 
There were other matches which were very interesting 
George A. Ohl, Jr., and A. Wheaton shot for blood 
Wheaton was to break more birds in twenty than Ohl 
Jr., in 25, and he did it, smashing 14 to Ohl’s 12. They 
shot again in the same way for a wager and Wheaton 
won again, breaking 13 to Ohl’s 9. There was a match 
between H. Radcliffe, James Quinn and Richard McCabe, 
of 25 targets. Radcliffe was the winner, breaking 8. 
Quinn and McCabe were tied with 7 each. 
James Wheaton has presented the club with a magnifi¬ 
cent gold medal worth $50, to be shot for each Tuesday 
for three months, all members to be handicapped ac¬ 
cording to their last three shoots, the medal to be pre¬ 
sented to the winner on Aug. 30 next. 
May 31.—Louis Colquitt, in his first 50 birds, broke 
49, making a clean score of 25 in his first string. Phil. 
Coffin was a close second, breaking 47 out of 50. 
The feature of the afternoon was a handicap match 
between Fred Macaulay, William Stengel and James 
Quinn^ Macaulay giving Stengel a handicap of 5 birds 
and Quinn 15 in a shoot of 25 birds. Macaulay was 
the victor, breaking- 21 to Stengel’s 12 and Quinn’s 4. 
Peter Bey surprised all by smashing 19 out of 25. He 
has shot but a few times and looks like a comer. 
A. A. Winckelhofer, Sec’y. 
Efficiency of Cartridges. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Now and then correspondence has apeared in your 
columns respecting the durability of cartridge cases and 
that of the strength of powder. Accident, not any in¬ 
tentional experiment, enables me to file with you testi¬ 
mony that requires more years of life and shooting than 
falls to the lot of the most of us respecting this matter. 
. the early ’70’s—that is, nearly forty years ago—start¬ 
ing out rather suddenly on an expedition in the North- 
western prairies, I had occasion to request the Union 
Metallic Cartridge Co. to make for me in a hurry—if it 
suited tqeir convenience—a coupje of thousand cartridges 
of special length for large loads. I received the most 
kindly, courteous reply that the time was short, but that 
if I would give them my hotel address, where I expected 
to be in passing through St. Paul, Minn., I would find 
the packing case of cartridges there for me. Which 1 
did. 
They proved most satisfactory then, and many the one 
was put to good use. A small number, however, of loaded 
ones remained over and returned with me to Canada. 
They were overlooked by me and but lately exhumed 
in the dusty corner of a storehouse. It struck me at 
once that here was an opportunity seldom occurring to 
any one of testing the shells—as to their certainty of 
going off—also as to whether the powder had retained 
its strength. I took a lot of them out, fired them at a 
target at measured distance of 40 yards. None missed 
fire. Pattern and penetration were the same as of old, 
showing that both case and powder were as good as the 
day when the shell was loaded. 
This M „ written with no object of advertising the 
U. M. C. C<p.; they do not need it and do not know me, 
the transaction having been so small a one as to have 
faded out of both their bookkeeping and memory long 
ago. It is written but as an acknowledgment due. 
CotJREUR DES BoiS. 
Laureate Boat Club. 
Troy, N. Y„ May 31.—The Troy Lodge of Elks, No. 
141, which annually takes charge of the Independence 
day celebration m this city, has decided to have a trap¬ 
shooting exhibition as the main feature of the picnic 
and field day July 4, 1910. It will be held at Rensselaer 
Park in the afternoon of that day. These field days 
are marked by the best attractions that money can 
secure, and the attendance in the last six years has 
varied from 25,000 to 40,000 people. Special trains are 
run from all points in eastern and central New York. 
The exhibition will consist of a team match between 
the Paleface Shooting Association, of Boston, Mass 
the Syracuse Gun Club, of Syracuse, N. Y. and the 
Laureate Boat Club, of this city. The conditions call 
for a five-man team, each man to shoot at 100 targets, 
16yds. rise, targets thrown 45 to 50yds., unknown angles! 
Each man on the winning team will receive a twenty- 
dollar gold piece, and $15 and $10 in gold will be divided 
between the two high amateurs, high gun. Any shooter, 
whether or not a member of the winning team will be 
eligible for the average money. No entrance fee will 
be charged. All contestants to be amateurs. A num¬ 
ber of professionals have signified their intentions to be 
present, and $15 and $10 in gold will be divided between 
the two high guns in this class. No entrance fee will 
be charged. With its usual generosity, the Troy Lodge 
of Elks _ will pay the traveling expenses, hotel and 
ammunition bills of the amateurs of the three teams. 
The shoot has been arranged and will be carried out 
under the direction of John T. Farrell, manager of 
trapshooting at the Laureate Boat Club. 
John J. Farrell, Mgr. 
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