


Oct. 5, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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ginning of the contest. If you have not received the 
programme of our Oct. 10 shoot, send us your address 
at once. We have two automatic traps to shoot over 
and $165 in added money and prizes to shoot for. 
W. GARDINER, Treas. 

Gun Bugs Association. 
Osstninc. N. Y., Sept. 30.—I have lately and at various 
times had inquiries from trapshooters living in different 
parts of the United States and Canada, asking about the 
Gun Bugs’ Association. As to its growth, roster of 
members, ete. If you will permit the space, I should like 
to answer them through your columns. I hand you here 
a partial list of members, so that members will read and 
not be ashamed to acknowledge membership in what | 
hope to make, sooner or later, a strong fraternal order: 
G F. Harbaugh, Cleveland, O.; C. M. Gilbert, Nash- 
ville, Tenn.; Geo. L. Lyon, Durham, N. C.; M. H. 
Dyckman, Oscawana, N. Y.; R. B. Wilson, Richmond, 
Va.; Rolla Heikes, Dayton, O.; F. M. Faurote, Dallas, 
Tex.; W. D. Reimer, Akron, O.; Ray Hendricks, Rye, 
N. Y.; R. B. Potter, South Nyack, N. Y.; E. H. Moul- 
ton, Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.; Chas. F. Kneil, Brockton, 
Mass.; J. B. Pardoe, Bound Brook, N. J.; W. F. 
Lawrence, Thomas Lacey, George Humphries, Charles 
Jenne, R. Tomlinson, J. D. Pederson, Frank Hubbard, 
G. J. Jackson, W. B. Colling, J. H. Rudd, H. H. Bassett, 
Ilion, N. Y.; S. L. Gore, Pottsville, Pa.; H. B. Tuttle, 
Chester, N. Y.; Seneca G. Lewis, New Haven, Conn.; 
O, N. Brown, Middletown, N. Y.; V. Walburg, Schenec- 
tady, N. Y.; W. J. Rand, El_ Paso, Tex.; E. B. Sho- 
gren, Chicago, Ill.; J. S. S. Remsen, Babylon, L. L., 
N. Y.; Chas. H. Reade, W. F. Parry, Jr., T. E. Hink- 
son, Chas. H. Heite, Harvey Starr, W. L. White, J. W. 
Cotting, Philadelphia; C. M. Powers, Decatur, IIl.; E. 
Brown, Pleasant Grove, Md.; Robt. C, Reeves, Suffern, 
N. .; Terry Davenport, Portsmouth. O.; John Hen- 
drickson, Long Island City, N. Y.; T. B. Newton, 
Skeedee, Okla.; W. M. Peck, Sterling, Kans.; R. 
Slimmer, Clarksville, Ia.; F. B. Gordon, Fremont, Ia.; 
H. E. Poston, Memphis, Tenn.; H. L. Sinnott, New 
Orleans, La.; W McKinley, Ogden, Ill.; William 
H. Heer, Concordia, Kans.; Fred. Gilbert, Spirit 
Lake, 2a.; ©. °F. Desmond, Kaslo, B. C.;. J. S: 
Fanning, Jersey City, N * DT. T. Skelly and Edw. 
Banks, Wiimington, Del.; W. R. Crosby, O’Fallon, I1l.; 
H. McMurchy, Fulton, N. Y.; D. L. Perry, Croton, O.; 
Vernon Williams, Atglen, Pa.; P. C. Darby, Northboro, 
la.; E. F. Markley, Easton, Pa.; H. H. Jeffers, Shelby- 
ville, Ind.: C. O. Le Compte, Eminence, Ky.; H. J. 
Borden and Frank Pragoff, Louisville, Ky.; W. 5. Wat- 
tles, Collinsville, Cal.; E. E. Drake, San Francisco; Jas. 
A. Curry, Jas. A. Long, Jos. Lyttle, Tarentum, Pa.; 
H. €. Marlatt, Simcoe, Ont.; H. W. \ietmeyer, W. D. 
Stannard and George H. Steenborg, Chicago, Ill.; Chas. 
D. Ellison and Chas. A. Moha, Paris, Tex.; Earl Henry, 
Albert Lea, Minn.; P. Johnson, Winnipeg, Man.; l. J. 
Richardson, Dean, Va.; Jas. Drumgoole, Anaconda, 
Mont.: E. Krebs, Belleville, Ill.; W. H. Dewey, Fergus 
Falls, Mina,; L. A. Cummmgs, Bunker Hill, Ll.; Wm. 
M. Clayton, Kansas City, Mo.; Carl Weise, Jr., Detroit, 
Mich.; Ed. O’Brien, Florence, Kans.; Jas A, Groves, 
Jacksonville, Ill.; H. W. Cadwallader, Decatur, Ill.; H. 
A. Murelle, Waco, Tex.; R. A. Moore, Fulton, Mo.; 
R. R. Barber, Paulina, fa.; E. C. Confarr, Lewiston, 
Mont.; F. T. Waugh, Deadwood, S. D.; Wm. Morris, 
Jacksonville, Ill.; J. B. Lake, Milwaukee, Wis.; H. E. 
Winans, Upper Alton, Ill.; J. B. Neal, Dauphin, Man.; 
John Muir, Cordova, Neb.; P. C. Ward and Guy Ward, 
Walnut Log, Tenn.; A. J. Peterson, Waco, Tex.; E. W. 
Arnold, Larned, Kans.; Geo. F. Pelham, Jr., New 
Rochelle, N. Y.; Wm. B. Ogden, Jr., New Rochelle, 
N. Y.; F. Brandreth, Amos Bedell, G. B. Hubbell, Wm. 
H. Coleman, Ossining, N. Y.; J. A. R. Elliott, H. W. 
Bissing, J. . Henderson, W. J. Breman, New York 
city.; E. S. Collins, J. W. Leathers, Jas. Victor, Thos. 
Daggs, Chas. Sandbury, F. M. Cloughlan, F. M. Gard- 
ner, St. Louis. 
Throughout the promoting of this Association, there 
has been this difficulty—trapshooters have read notices 
which have been from time to time printed gratis by the 
different papers devoted to trapshooting. Some of them 
did not know that they were grateful free acknowledg- 
ment of the press to an humble, but enthusiastic trap shot 
in an earnest effort to advance our premier sport. 
. Many doubtless thought that the price of the emblem, 
though small, hid the secret of the promoter’s enthusi- 
asm. For this reason I have had a feeling of delicacy 
about soliciting members. 
I have attended a number of large tournaments where 
there have been hundreds of eligible trap shots, but have 
never, personally, asked one man to join. Not even in 
mv home club, though most of them are members. 
Briefly, the objects of the order, as has been stated 
betore in these columns, is to bring in closer personal 
touch the trap shots of the United States and Canada. 
Any man wearing one of the emblems must have a 
general average of 50 per cent. or better at flying 
targets. He must be a member of a regularly organized 
gun club, and his standing must be vouched for by the 
secretary of his club. 
The emblem is a scarfpin, a shotgun about one inch 
long, upon the barrel of which is a small beetle. They 
come in rolled gold plated and solid gold, $1 and $2 
respectively. 
The writer tried to present a solid silver cup to the 
winner of high average at the Grand American Handicap 
this year, through the Interstate Association, but the 
proposition was voted down, There were thirty-two Gun 
3ugs entered, most of whom were topnotchers, and it 
would have been an interesting little race. 
Herewith is a partial list of 80 per cent. and better 
members. There are several hundred other members not 
quite so skillful, likely, but just as enthusiastic. 
Cuas. G. BLANDFORD. 
THE Forest AND STREAM may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
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ASSOCIATION HANDICAP 
won with 
And the second amateur averaze for the two days’ shooting at Denver was won 
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AT SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 
September 10-12, 1907 
High General Average 

AT THE 

PACIFIC COAST HANDICAP 
WAS WON BY 
AN AMATEUR 
NRE SG. 
who used 
“NEW E. C. 
TAYLOR, of Meckling, S. 
D., who broke 363 out of 380, and 
(Improved)” 


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