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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 15, 1910. 
Rifle and Revolver Ammunition 
IN THE LEAD AT SEA GIRT 
In the Sea Girt Military Competitions, September 1 - 10 , 1910 , the largest number of WINS was credited to PETERS CARTRIDGES: a record of these 
wins is published herewith and particular attention is called to the remarkable showing made on the 1,000 and 1,200 yard ranges. 
INDIVIDUAL RIFLE MATCHES 
Match Place Name Score 
Sea Girt Championship.1st Lieut.-Col. W. A. Tewes.1S4 
Nevada Trophy .3rd Capt. A. H. Pfeil. 137 
Spencer Match .1st Lieut.-Col. A. Rowland. 60 
INDIVIDUAL REVOLVER MATCHES 
Name 
. 2d Maj. W. S. Price. 
Maj. W. S. Price. 
Swiss Trophy .3rd 
Libbey Trophy.(tie) 1st Lieut.-Col. W. A. Tewes 
Officers and Inspectors .......2d Capt. G. W. Corwin 
Hayes Match .5th Priv. G. Raimondi 
Class “A” Trophy.1st 
Individual Rapid Fire.1st Capt. C. A. Silvester . 
Lehmberg Trophy .1st Sergt. G. W. Silvester 
Reading Match .. 6 th Capt. A. H. Pfeil. 
N. Y. S. R. Ass’n.3rd Priv. H. Minervini 
5!) 
93 
48 
Lieut.-Col. YV. A. Tewes. 50 
100 
50 
46 
18 O 
Wingate Match .3rd Maj. C. S. Benedict.141 
Rogers Match .5th Maj. C. S. Benedict.145 
Penna. Long Range Match . . ,5th Capt. C. F. Silvester. 48 
Keystone Long Range Match.9th Maj. W. S. Price. 49 
Penna. Midrange Match.1st Capt. C. A. Silvester. 4!) 
Members Match (National Marksmen), N. J. 
Won by Capt. C. F. Silvester. 67 
Members Match (National Marksmen), Pa. 
Won by N. Spering . 69 
SUMMARY': Rifle Matches: 10 lsts, 4 2ds, i) 3ds, 4 4tlis, 7 5ths. 
Revolver Matches: 6 lsts, 5 2ds, 1 3d, 4 4ths, 4 5ths. 
PETERS QUALITY INVARIABLY TELLS 
Match Place 
All Comers' Military and 
Police .2nd 
Novice Military .(tie) 1st 
All Comers’ Rapid Fire.4th 
Bobber .2nd 
Any Revolver .1st 
Pistol .1st 
Souvenir A .1st 
Souvenir B .1st 
All Comers' Squadded Re¬ 
volver . 2 nd 
N. Y. Revolver Team .1st 
N. J. Revolver Team.2nd 
Score 
Lieut.-Col. G. B. Young.136 
Hans Roedder .138 
Corp. H. N. Hoyt .128 
Sergt. T. Anderton. 68 
Sergt. T. Anderton.147 
A. M. Poindexter.147 
Hans Roedder .125 
A. M. Poindexter .243 
Sergt. T. Anderton .132 
Manhattan R.&R. As’n No. 1. .1145 
(3 out of 5 men using Peters.) 
Manhattan R.&R. As’n No. 1..1010 
(3 out of 5 men using Peters.) 
RIFLE TEAM MATCHES 
Dryden Trophy.4th 
Company Team Match (Tyro). 1st 
Columbia Trophy .5th 
Cavalry Team Match.10th 
Company Team Match, N. Y. .2nd 
McAlpin Trophy, N. Y.5th 
Cruikshank Trophy. N. Y.5th 
Old Guard Trophy, N. Y.1st 
New Jersey Team .1052 
Co. L. 4th Regt. N. G. N. J....135 
2nd Troop, N. G. N. J.946 
2nd Troop, N. G. N. J., No. 2.. 327 
Co. C. 4th Inf., N. J.362 
New Jersey Team.1003 
2nd Inf., N. G. N. J.556 
4th Inf.. N. G. N. J. (2 using 
Peters) .236 
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J. S. FRENCH. Manager 
P. R. LITZKE, Manager 
though there were no eggs, she regularly covered 
up the nest when leaving it, and the weka never 
failed to rake it out when he found her absent, 
and of course a goose could never hatch an egg 
where there was such an artful and patient thief 
.as that. 
Long ago I knew they were egg eaters, but I 
never dreamed that they were half so bad as 
this shows them to he. We have had this weka 
since it was a chicken, and he has only a small 
domain where there are no penguins. Probably 
he never saw a duck’s nest in his life, and cer¬ 
tainly not a goose’s, for this was the first in the 
sound, yet he seemed to know all about it, and 
that the eggs would be covered up. The ducks 
cover theirs until thej" start to hatch, and then 
also when they leave the nest of their own ac¬ 
cord, and that is evidently where this weka’s 
forefathers learned the habit, and faithfully 
handed it down to this promising youngster. To 
this small matter hangs a very long, old story, 
which we will never hear in full, about the ducks 
watching and fighting for their eggs, and the 
wekas successfully robbing them year after year 
until it became a fixed habit for transmission, 
the result of which we saw plainer and truer 
than by writing. 
No doubt the weka is a finished thief, but he 
is not a fighter, because his wings are useless, 
and his courage is very little better for that 
purpose. The little teal are terrors to fight with 
each other, and then they make their wings 
crack like whips, so that they could easily drive 
off a weka, and as for a “paradise” she could 
kill one if she caught hold of it, but that would 
be the trouble. 
Our weka looks after his two big chickens 
during the day, bags food for them or hunts 
it up on the beach, and apparently gives them 
everything he gets. Sometimes he gives them 
a wigging and chases them away—for school¬ 
ing', I suppose—yet he fights for them and has 
many a lively run hunting away intruders, who 
sometimes chase them and make them scream 
for assistance. Then he snorts and coughs, and 
his eyes glare with indignation as he rushes 
about looking for the offender, who is often sly 
enough to flip round a corner and make a bee¬ 
line out of dangerous ground. 
At the end of October this is his usual day’s 
work until some time in the afternoon, when 
.he goes up the hill to the nest where his mate 
is hatching, takes her place, and lets her come 
out for food. If we see her we give Tier plenty, 
but she is in no hurry returning, evidently con¬ 
fident that the eggs are safe in his keeping until 
she has had her outing at leisure. 
I wonder greatly they are such good managers 
if they cannot talk. Fancy him going up to the 
nest, if you can, and putting her off it without 
exchanging ideas about his object or intention, 
and without promising to remain until she re¬ 
turns. It is far easier for me to imagine him 
saying, “Come out now and get something to 
eat; I will take care of the eggs until you re¬ 
turn, and do not be in any hurry, because I am 
tired and will be glad of a rest here.” 
Nov. 17.—This evening I was looking at the 
antics of the woodhens when Scrag made a rush 
at something, and then I heard a rat screaming 
in a big hole under a stump. The dogs also 
heard it, and I had just time to see the weka 
drag out a rat when the dogs rushed in and 
killed the rodent, and I lost the chance of as 
great a treat as a bull fight. I know it would 
require the keenest activity for a weka to kill 
a rat single-handed, and am not sure that it 
could do so, but the rat’s screams would be 
sure to attract another weka, and then I think 
the pair could manage it quite easily, for one 
could hold while the other stabbed, or both 
could tug and pull, in which they seem to take 
a delight, and are very tenacious, so that the 
rat would be worried to death. 1 his tenacity 
of hold is quite unexpected from the shape of 
the weka’s beak, but I have played with them 
by trailing a little fish on the rod, and was sur¬ 
prised how they could hold on until I lifted 
them off the ground. 
Nov. 22.—We went to Breaksea Sound, and 
camped in a beautiful place called Beach Har¬ 
bor, two miles east of Acheron Passage. We 
soon had the maori hens for company of course, 
and there were two grown up chickens. They 
were all rather shy at first, but food soon opened 
the vvay to their friendship or gratitude. I 
threw an old fellow some crabs, which he evi¬ 
dently took note of at once, for he followed me 
along the beach, and after a few lessons, when 
1 turned over a stone and he saw the crabs 
running, he would come up and catch them him¬ 
self, and his example soon made the others 
tame. Then I opened cockles for him with my 
knife, and he would stand at my knee and eat 
them with more confidence than the maori hen 
1 had reared. But the reason I mention him at 
all is because he gave us an exhibition of his 
skill as a fisherman. Often I saw them wading 
in shallow water, but thought the fish too lively 
for them to catch. However, this one brought 
up several little fish as long as my finger and 
paraded them about, calling his chickens to come 
for them. His neck and legs appeared to be 
rather long, as if to suit that sort of work, and 
I saw him peeping cautiously round corners as 
if expecting shy game, so that he must have 
been an old hand at it, and probably his fore¬ 
fathers were fishermen, because the circum¬ 
stances were suitable. 
