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FOREST AND STREAM. 
HUGH McELROY, of SPOKANE. 
Won 
THE BOOSTERS’ HANDICAP 
At Anaconda, Mont., August 19, 1909, with 
98 out of 100 from 18 yards, using 
“NEW SCHULTZE” 
Will. Wettleaf, of Nichols, la., tied for second 
with 97 from 20 yards. Woolf oik Henderson, of 
Lexington, Ky., was third with 96 from 20 yards. 
HIGH AMATEUR AVERAGE 
For the 500 16-yard targets shot at during The Boosters’ 
Tournament, Aug. 17-19, w as won hy . 1^-1 , 
Whatcheer, la., with 488. 
Messrs. Wettleaf, Henderson and Ridley all used 
[Aug. 28, 1909. 
HINTS ON CAMP LIFE IN RHODESIA. 
It is true that the majority of men wishing 
to shoot big game visit Central Africa during 
the dry season—that is to say. between the 
months of May and October. There are, how¬ 
ever, a steadily increasing number of sports¬ 
men who shoot during the rainy season. 
Granted that it is a great advantage to be able 
to reckon with certainty on fine weather, there 
are. nevertheless, many disadvantages to dry 
season shooting. During the winter months 
of May. June, and July the climate is cool, 
and no rain falls; but the grass is so high that 
it is very difficult to see the game, and still 
more difficult to make a noiseless approach. 
During August and September the grass is 
burnt, but the temperature has been steadily 
rising, and October, which would otherwise be 
the finest shooting month, is generally the 
hottest month of the year. During the months 
of August, September and October there is also 
a great scarcity of water. All pools and small 
streams are dried up, and one is often forced 
to make long marches to find water, and that 
frequently of poor quality. Now during the 
first three months of the rainy season—Novem¬ 
ber, December and January—water is abundant, 
and the grass has not had time to grow to the 
enormous height and thickness to which it sub¬ 
sequently attains. Owing to the abundance of 
fresh, juicy grass the game is scattered, instead 
of being collected around the river banks, and 
the exciting possibility of seeing game is al¬ 
ways present. Hence the fact that the number 
of men shooting during the rains is increasing 
rapidly. It is not intended in this article to 
say anything about the game itself—a subject 
about which so much has already been written; 
all that is proposed is to give a few hints, 
which if observed will tend to greatly minimize 
the hardships attendant on camp life in the 
rains. In an article in the Field, G. D. Clough 
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LONG RUNS AT THE TOURNAMENT WERE: 
W. A. SHvidge, Billings, Mont., 153 straight with “NEW SCHULTZE.” 
H. E. Posten, San Francisce, 143 straight with DUPONT SMOKELESS. 
Hugh Me Elroy, Spokane, Wash, 135 sti aight with ‘ NEW SCHULTZE. 
P. J. Holohan, T win Falls, Ida , 115 straight with DUPONT SMOKELESS. 
William Ridlev, \A hatcheer, la., 110 straight with DUPONT SMOKELESS. 
Woolfolk Henderson, Lexington, Ky., 100 straight with DUPONT SMOKE¬ 
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At the commencement of the trip after the 
loads have been distributed each carrier should 
lie allotted a particular task to he performed 
daily on reaching camp, so that the camp can 
be pitched with the least possible delay. To so 
many men should be allotted the erecting of 
the tent, to so many others the fetching of the 
water, the gathering of wood for the fires, and 
so on. Nothing is more uncomfortable than 
to arrive wet and tired at the end of the day’s 
journey, and to be obliged to wait for an hour 
or more before your tent is pitched and before 
you can secure a change into dry clothes. 1 his 
will undoubtedly be your case if each native 
pleases himself as to what he will do on reach¬ 
ing camp and when he will do it. 
Be careful to personally select the site for 
your tent, and to make the natives dig a trench 
about a foot wide and 6 to 9 inches deep 
around the back and sides of the tent im¬ 
mediately under the end of the fly. banking 
the earth excavated on the tent side of the 
ditch. No ditch is necessary in front of the 
tent, as you should arrange for the tent to face 
downhill. It is seldom possible to find a piece 
of ground without any fall, and this trench is 
most important. The writer remembers arriv¬ 
ing in camp thoroughly exhausted after a day’s 
heavy marching and neglecting to supervise the 
choosing of the site of his. tent and the. digging 
of the trench. During the night it began to 
rain heavily, and within ten minutes of the com¬ 
mencement of the rain there was a small river 
running through the tent and everything was 
afloat. 
However energetic you may be. it is advis¬ 
able if traveling in Northeastern Rhodesia, or 
in any part of Northwestern Rhodesia where 
horses are not obtainable, to take a machilla 
with you. In many of the low-lying districts 
the path is a foot or so under water, and it is 
far preferable to cross these swampy stretches 
of ground in a machilla to floundering through 
on foot and becoming very wet, with the possi¬ 
bility of having a nasty fall over some obstacle 
on the path hidden by the water. The double 
pole is preferable to the single pole machilla: 
four bearers carrying a double machilla are far 
less likely to stumble on slippery ground and 
