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and Revolver Association, and our old reliable Arno 
Argus, with his big .45, won first place in the shoot, 
making a_run of nine consecutive bulls on the military 
target. Our secretary caught the fever and landed in 
second place in the field of about twenty competitors. 
Troop B boys are putting up higher scores than ever 
before on ihe State range, and we anticipate a hot match 
when we come together. 
Military rifle shooting continues to increase in interest, 
and one of the plans for this fall and winters 
is rapid-fire work at the gallery, with both the revolver 
and rifle, 
The scores of last shoot were: 
Revolver, 50yds., standard target: Lieut. H. C. Miller 
(.44) 86; W. R. Wing (.38) 67, 66, 68, 76, 63; Maj. Wm. 
F, eddy (.38) 79, 78, 77, 81, 79. 
Revolver, 50yds., Creedmoor: Miller 49; Eddy 46, 45, 
46, 47, 46; Wing 45, 48, 42, 48, 43. 
Krag match: 
Pracr Ce 

Standing. Sitting. Prone. Total 
OT a 23 20 22 24 21 23 133 
MOTKDULBE) ocisc0c nes 22 22 20 20 22 21 127 
7 a eee 1 21 20 18 21 21 122 
Rapid-fire, gallery range, .200yd. target, reduced to 
2byds.: A. B. Coulters 23, 24, 19, 23, 23; E C. Parkhurst 
22, 19, 18, 18; H. C. Miller, 21, 17, 11, 14, 
A New Star. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Wonderful shooting has been done this year by Ameri- 
cans in the various rifle matches of national importance, 
and as usual, the crop of going-one-better stories will 
doubtless appear. 
Along the lines of marvelous, awe-inspiring, breath- 
taking feats wherein a man gains a reputation (?) the 
following clipping, sent by a shooting friend, with the 
simple comment, ‘‘Gosh,’”’ is of interest in many ways: 
“PUNCTURES COINS IN THE AIR. 
“Pottstown, Pa., Sept. 4.—Without any reputation in 
that line before, Nathaniel B. Davis, a Pottstown 
plumber, got into the limelight as a crack shot. On a 
wager he hit two pennies thrown into the air at a dis- 
tance of fifty yards, the bullets from his rifle striking 
both coins near the center. A quarter was then thrown 
up and he split the coin with a bullet.” 
The correspondent does not state whether a .22 or a 
.50 caliber rifle was used. Such trifling details are not 
necessary for good newspaper stutt. To place a .50 
caliber bullet in the center of a penny would be some- 
what difficult, for reasons which any rifle shot will figure 
out; and it would require keen eyesight to get a bead 
on the center for a .22 bullet. Readers will take it for 
granted that the said cash was found to show exactly 
where the bullets struck. Generally speaking, in these 
days, cash is hard enough to find without being hit in 
the center, and the man who kept track of the coins and 
retrieved them should come in for a share of the praise. 
Once upon a time a famous professional shot at the 
height of his shooting brilliancy, was enjoyiug the sea 
breezes between acts on the Maine coast. An enthusi- 
astic admirer asked if he could hit a half dollar thrown 
in the air. He smiled and said he thought it was pos- 
sible if the inquirer had coins enough. ‘The seeker for 
souvenirs failed to see the point, but tossed a half dollar 
toward the sky, the six-shooter cracked, and the hai 
dollar whizzed like a ricochet out to sea. If remembered 
rightly no more practice was indulged in, and the argu- 
ment has often been started as to whether it could be 
repeated with like results. 
ow often it is that one gains a reputation by some 
soul-stirring feat, whether of actual skill or luck, and 
how some of us old plug shots who have hard work to 
hit the regulation badieeve ten times in succession, feel 
that it is useless for us to continue in the game; but 
how seldom still do we see the names of men who are 
reported to perform what seem to practical shooters 
almost impossible ‘‘feats,” in the head lines of the great 
compeiitions held. throughout the country, where in 
truth gather the really finest shots of the nation. 
True, every shooter has some time made an extraordi- 
nary shot, but few who are in the game tor the good 
there is in it care to have their “reputations” estab- 
lished cn such an incident. 
I once had a communication from the far West, 
stating that there was a man in that part of the country 
who could hit pins with a revolver at thirty yards. This 
might be true, but detail was lacking; it generally is in 
such news. It is probable that a first-class ball player, 
who had never fired a gun in his life, could hit a paper 
of pins at thirty yards by throwing the gun at it. This 
was probably not the impression intended to be con- 
veyed, but was the final conclusion of many to whom 
the story was told. 
With the increasing interest and more clear knowledge 
of revolver and rifle shooting, the idea has prevailed 
that some of the wonderful and imaginary shooting of 
such men as were made famous by Cooper had seen its 
finish; to the uneducated because there were none such 
men now; to the wise who know that never before has 
shooting reached such a high state of perfection, be- 
cause interesting fiction had to set aside truth for the 
even then yellow journalism and wild-eyed wonderfulness 
of past generations. But when the public grows better 
enlightened on the possibuiiies and facts concern ng 
ig matters, such accounts will appear ludicrous; 
they will appear to better advantage in the funny papers, 
and we cranks who shoot and shoot will not be heid in 
| contempt by our newspaper reading friends, who consider 
a man who by chance hits a penny 
much the superior of the fellow 
consecutive bulls at fifty yards, 
at a thousand. 
tossed into the air 
who planks out ten 
or scores 49 out of 50 

THE programme of the 33d annual shooting festival 
of the Zettler Rifle Club can be obtained of Zettler 
Brothers, 159 W. 23d street, New York. The contests 
will be held at, Union. Hill, N.. J., Oct. 8. The cash 
prizes for the ring target contest number 20, and range 
from $1 to $30, The bullseye competition has eighteen 
prizes. There will also be competition on the target 
of honor, the judges’ target and the 25-ring target. 

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