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Small Bores. 
Brooklyn, N. Y .—Editor Forest and Stream: I must 
take issue with Mr. T. H. Grant in his deductions from 
his calculations on the small-bore question, even though 
the calculations themselves are intrinsically correct. 
Mr. Grant reasons that if a 12-bore, shooting l!4oz. 
No. 8 shot, or about 500 pellets, places 180 pellets in a 
30in. circle at 40yds., or about 35 per cent, of its load, a 
28-bore can be choke-bored to place 70 per cent, of its 
%oz. of shot in the same circle at the same distance, and 
thus equal the 12-bore. Now, granting that the 28-bore 
is equal in penetration, evenness of pattern and all other 
particulars to the 12 (which I very much doubt), it 
would certainly be equal to the 12-bore in that 30in. 
circle, but what becomes of the other 65 per cent, of the 
12-bore charge? Is it not reasonable to suppose that it 
goes to increase the killing circle? That is precisely 
what it does. If we consider the 12-bore distributing 70 
per cent, of its charge over this killing circle (and I 
submit that this is a reasonable estimate for a good 
shooting gun) in the proportion of 180 pellets to the 
30in. circle, the killing circle would be twice the area 
of the 30in. circle, and 42in. in diameter, and there would 
still be left_ 30 per cent, of the charge, or about 150 
pellets, to distribute itself outside the circumference and 
account for an occasional unexpected hit. 
The 28-bore has but 75 pellets in its remaining entire 
30 per cent, of charge, after covering one-half the area of 
the 12-bore. 
Mr. Grant calculates the efficiency as SO to 100. This 
is a difference of 20 per cent., or one chance in five. 
There may be experts whose skill is sufficient to make 
them willing to handicap themselves to this extent; but I 
confess I am not one of them. My shooting is poor 
enough, with 100 per cent, in my favor. I have no 
desire to reduce it to 80. 
As to choke-boring, it is easy to bore a gun to put 
70 per cent, of its charge in a 30in. circle at 40yds.; but 
to bore it so that the charge will be closely and evenly 
distributed over the entire circle and not rolled in a 
thick cluster in the middle, leaving thin and patchy 
spots on the edges, is a very difficult task, and one 
that the best makers are not always sure of accom¬ 
plishing. 
I agree with Mr. Grant that a 6%lb. 12-bore may 
shoot no harder nor better than a 16-bore with the same 
load; but even so, why use a 16-bore when all your 
friends are shooting 12-bores? If ammunition runs 
short in the field, your friend’s shells will fit your gun, 
or vice versa. If a new supply is needed in a hurrv. 
anv sporting or hardware store can supplv some sort of 
a 12-bore load; but how manv have anything at all for 
the smaller bores? . Even in the best equipped sporting 
goods stores the choice is apt to be limited, compared with 
the multiplicity of loads for the popular 12-gauge. 
If Mr. Grant has ever run out of shells on a good 
field day and heard the merry pop of the 12-bores on 
every side, he has realized to the full the disadvantage 
of being “without the pale.” 
There are, without doubt, many reasons, such as lack 
of muscular endurance, pursuit of the smaller game 
birds, shooting in hot climates, etc., why the smaller 
bores are found especially suited to many persons: but 
this is no reason why we who prefer the 12-bore 
should lay it aside, or why the small-bore users should 
claim for them an equality or superiority which does 
not exist. Htt-or-Miss. 
Columbus Gun Club. 
Columbus, O. — Oct. 16 was a very favorable day for 
trapshooting, with the exception of quite a strong wind 
that made high scores rather difficult. Mr. O. V. Shill¬ 
ing made a run of 56 straight without a miss. Capt. 
Carson, of Tennessee, was present and shot through the 
afternoon programme. 
Mr. Fred Shattuck, who organized the Columbus Gun 
Club five years ago, has resigned as secretary of the 
club, having _ purchased a fine little farm on the pic¬ 
turesque portion of upper Scioto River, about one and a 
half miles north of Dublin. Mr. Shattuck will take up 
his residence there about the first of November, in order 
to prepare for the spring work. The members of the 
Columbus Gun Club will give a farewell shoot to the re¬ 
tiring secretary on Thursday, Oct. 28. Programmes of 
this shoot are now being printed and will be mailed to 
the shooters of Ohio in a few days. 
The successor to Mr. Shattuck as secretary of the 
Columbus Gun Club will be Mr. Lon Fisher, of Buckeye 
Lake, who has been on the Ohio shooting list for a 
number of years, and is well known to the shooters of 
this section. Mr. Fisher will take up the work on 
November first. 
The finish of the Du Pont trophy shoot finds Mr. Wm. 
Webster with the six highest scores in the running, and 
he has been awarded the handsome bronze dog on point. 
Mr. Webster’s shooting this year has been of a high 
class, and we take pleasure in presenting him with this 
trophy. 
Smith Gun Club. 
Newark. N.' J., Oct. 16. —The contest for the cham¬ 
pionship of New Jersey, between Chas. T. Day, Jr., holder, 
and E. Cahr, challenger, was won by the holder, the 
scores being 47 to 38 out of 50. 
The totals of the afternoon were made by the con¬ 
testants as follows: 
Shot at. Broke 
Shot at. 
Broke 
Klini? .... 
. 150 
128 
Thornton .. 
. 90 
76 
Brickner 
. 150 
126 
Perkins .... 
.115 
89 
Glover ... 
. 100 
95 
Wicks . 
. 50 
41 
Day, Jr . 
. 200 
183 
Hopper .... 
. 50 
38 
Squires .. 
. 100 
86 
Beach . 
.100 
84 
Cahr .... 
. 200 
167 
Trowbridge 
.... 125 
112 
Letiz . 
. 25 
11 
Davis . 
. 25 
16 
Byram ... 
.125 
83 
Kisser . 
. 75 
28 
Keller ... 
. ino 
70 
Seymour .. 
. 75 
46 
Koegle ... 
. 140 
128 
Matthews 
. 50 
30 
Erby . 
. 90 
73 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
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repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
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upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
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write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
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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. 
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