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to the upper end of the rear sight so as to swing freely, the 
aperture being in a line with the sight when perpendicular, 
would be superior to the level, as it would, by observing 
the peep hole in the rear sight, indicate at once if the rifle 
was twisted. It is understood that Dr. Maynard is getting 
up something of the kind. If heis we shall be glad to no- 
tice it. 
It has generally been supposed that ingenuity had been 
‘exhausted in regard to point sights, every possible device 
of pin, bar and skeleton having its advocates. Mr, Henry 
Fulton, of No. 85 Broadway, Williamsburg, a member of 
the Amateur Club, has invented a foresight, however, that 
seems entirely novel. It consists of a glass disc, fitting the 
ordinary globe sight, and having a small hole bored through 
its centre, and two scratches, one perpendicular and one 
horizontal, the sight traversing by a screw so as to give a 
wide guage. The theory is, that when placed upon the 
target the glass gives a haze over all the target, while the 
hole in the cefitre gives a fine bead of light to sight by, 
the scratchés showing every deviation from the perpendic- 
ular. This sight is designed to avoid the objection to 
“solid dises pierced in the centre,” which are forbidden by 
N. R. A. rules as dangerous, from their concealing the 
danger signal, when displayed—that is to say, that a rifle- 
man intent on-his butt and the bull’s eye, when looking at 
it through a pin hole in the perforated disc, is unable to 
see the marker, and the life of the man at the target might 
be endangered. 
Asfar as can be judged from an inspection the idea isa 
good one, although the sight seems rather high, The only 
way to be certain upon the subject, however, is to try it by 
actual practice on the range. If brought down there—as 
we understand it will shortly be—the Amateurs will soon 
decide its merits 
Mr. J. P. M. Richards, the weil known and successful 
shot, is understood to be getting up a score book, by which 
arifleman can keep a record, not only of his scores, but of 
the wind, light, elevation, ammunition, and other similar 
matters indispensable to secure accuracy. By keeping a 
areful record of each shot a vast amount of experimental 
5 hooting can be dispensed with, and the results to be ob- 
ained under all circumstances definitely known. If the 
book is properly prepared, as we have no doubt it will be, 
no one intending to stand high at Creedmoor can do with- 
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Regarding the shooting collectively, taking the average 
of the ten, 503 is in the highest degree creditable. It 
showed he remembered that at Wimbledon, in shooting for 
the grand event, the Queen’s Prize, at long ranges, the ay- 
erage of sixty of the best shots in England, who had been 
practicing for years, was 53, At Creedmoor, on Saturday, 
it was a trifle over 50, Adjustments for differences of 
wind, etc., are more cared for in England; but as we have 
before remarked, we may very shortly expect that Ameri- 
can ingenuity will supply all the finer points necessary for 
absolutely accurate shooting. 
Mr Omand’s score, with a Remington Sporting Rifle, of 
23 at 500 yards, 25at 800 yards, and 22 at 1,000 yards—28 
being only possible at each distance—is very wondeful 
shooting, and speaks well for the manand the gun, Mr. 
Conlin’s score, 28, 23, and 19 with a Sharpe’s: Sporting, is 
also highly creditable. Col. Gildersleeve, who always 
makes good shooting, after making three bull’s. eyes in 
succession, was unfortunate in having his sight misplaced, 
while Mr. Canfield was equally unlucky from having his 
rifle sight injured. 
A. new interest was -given to this particular contest by 
the fact-that T. C.-Clark, Esq., of Philadelphia, a member 
of the Rifle Association, had presented a very elegant 
Whitworth Rifle, to be won by the second best shot. The 

‘they have been in former years. 
conditions are as follows: The rifle to be taken at each 
meeting of the Remington Diamond Badge by the person 
making the second best score. When the contest for the 
badge is concluded the rifle will become the property of 
the marksman standing next on the score, who will neces- 
sarily be the second person who has held the Diamond 
Badge the most frequently. If there be more than one con- 
testant for this second place of honor, the rifle is to be shot 
for at 1,000 yards, under the rules of the Association. 
The Remington Diamond Badge Match, shot for on Sat- 
urday last, will conclude the Creedmoor season of 1878, 
which has been in every way a most successful one. 

Sporting Jlews from Abroad. 
—Heigh now for neatly fitting leathers, for red coats, for 
hard hats crowded on men’s heads, for long stocked whips, 
and Whoops and Halloas, and Tallyhoes, as the splendid 
hunters, the paragons of horses—speed, bottom, and cour- 
age all united in the same animal—spring over hedges 
and clear ditches, carrying on their backs the best and 
pluckiest riders the world has ever seen! But ware—easy— 
look out for a rasper—a crippler of the worst kind! Per- 
haps sorne of our readers, with cavalry experiences, may 
have had the inexplicable delight of riding at the head of 
a column, horses going full tilt, with the enemy’s skirmishers 
just within easy reach. Some ambitious men are fully 
fifty yards in advance, when over they all go, like a pile of 
bricks, men and horses allina heap. There has not been 
a gun fired, and yet some fifteen or twenty horsemen lie 
prostrate on mother earth, and the animals are struggling 
alongside of them. No matter now (for, thank God! those 
cruel times have passed)—no matter now to find out which 
side did it; the only fact worth recording is that some five 
to six lengths of miserable telegraphic wire, stretched from 
about two feet from the ground up to about. the nose of a 
horse, when you ride,on it and don’t expect it, is one of the 
meanest and most terrible checks to the movements of a 
horseman that can be found. Of course, all is fair in love 
and war, but not in hunting. Now this wire arrangement 
is exactly what that industrious, painstaking but unsports- 
manlike English agriculturist has been using of late for his 
fences in order to keep in his sheep and cows and to keep 
out other people’s waifs and strays—indifferent to the gal- 
lant hunt and fox and hounds—and so, in a most wretched 
way, putting up his wire lines has brought many good men 
to grief. ‘‘Six months’ notice to quit from the landlord to 
the tenant who, after the {st of November, so imperils his 
neighbor’s neck, has been found efficacious in some cases, 
while a pair of strong wire nippers, easily and safely carried 
in the breast pocket of the rider, will open a road for a 
whole field of pounded ones.” So suggests, in a peremp- 
tory way, one of our most worthy English contemporaries. 
How would it do to have on the whip-stock one of those 
patent Yankee omniwm arrangements, where nippers, pliers, 
and anumber of other ingenious notions are combined? 
Passing over this little disagrément we lave to remark that 
the prospects for the coming English hunting season never 
were better, and pig skin is more prominent than ever. If 
good horses command higher figures, men have more money, 
and three and four hundred pounds for a good mount, ca- 
pable of bringing in to the death a fourteen stone man, is 
not thought much about. For months, then, to come we 
shall hear of the Pytchley and Atherstone hunts, and 
others of high degree, and the merits of ‘‘fashionable 
dogs” and ‘‘old-fashioned hounds” will be thoroughly dis- 
cussed. Advertisements appropriate to the fox-hunting 
season crowd the leading journals, such as announcements 
of hotels and stables adjacent to hunting meets; and there 
are to be found such curious ones—as nurserymen who 
offer various kinds of hedge plants, such as the ever- 
greens, laurels, and hornbeams for fox coverts as a substi- 
tute for the gorse. ‘ 
—There has been a great deal of discussion consequent 
to the decision of the English Jcckey Club in regard to 
the running of two year olds, and a decision was arrived 
at, by a small majority, that two year olds should be 
brought before the public even when less matured than 
We believe, notwith- 
standing all the arguments to the contrary, that the early 
forcing of horses is against every rule of nature, and must 
in time affect disastrously the best efforts of the English 
turf. The leading authorities seem to be decidedly on 
the fence about it. One argument used in favor of the 
placing of such young stock on the track is as follows:— 
“That the breeding and purchase of thoroughbreds in- 
volves a great outlay of capital, and if the capital is to be 
locked up for three years there is little chance of utiliz- 
ing it, and greater expenditure in so doing, consequently 
a discouragement to the breeder and buyer alike; and the 
more stock that is bred the larger the entries for the great 
races.” Those on the other side, and we are in with them, 
state what seems to us to be perfectly obvious, that it 
must depreciate the soundness of animals, and so the 
merits of the individual horses. What is certain about it 
is that among high-bred horses now in England ‘“‘soarers” 
and unsound horses predominate, and that the progeny of 
such a famous horse as: Blair Athol all have defects of 
wind. 
—We notice with pleasure the efforts of the Royal So- 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Atiimals to obtain 
a railway truck suitable for the better conveyance of cat- 
tle. The reward is £400. We give a brief outline of 
what is required:— Lhe. 
‘“CONDITIONS: 
“The Improved Truck shall be: suitable in guuge, di 

mensions, construction, material, &e., for the same pur- 
poses for which cattle trucks are now used; the truck 
shall be roofed and provided with spring buffers and axle 
springs, or other appliances to prevent injuries to ani- 
mals during shuntings and sudden startings and stop- 
pages. The truck shall be provided with appointments 
for the supply of food and water to animals in the car- 
riage during the time when the train is in motion, or when 
it is stationary at a platform or siding, so as to avoid the 
necessity of removing the animals from the truck for re- 
freshment; the cost of the truck shall not be greatly in 
excess of the cost of cattle trucks now in use; and the 
truck shall be satisfactory to the judges.” 
The secretary’s address is John Colam, 105 Jermyn st., 
St. James, London. (tan 
In a former number of the Foresr AND STREAM we 
called attention to an American invention of this charac- 
ter. We should advise those having this model to send the 
same to England before Christmas, when the competition 
commences. In the United States we transport cattle much 
further than in England. We suppose Mr. Bergh would 
only be too glad to give his co-operation to a matter of this 
character. 
—We notice preparations for the winter season in Eng- 
land—notably by the skaters; We think we make better 
skates here than those used in England. We observe, how- 
ever, one arrangement for a lady’s skate which might be 
useful. Itisa spring guard. They call them crutches, 
which, padded nicely over the lady’s ankles, must make 
firm hold and prevent cramping. 
THe Sky An Inpicaror or THE Wratrner.—The color 
of the sky at particular times affords good guidance. Not 
only does a very rosy sunset presage good weather, and a 
ruddy sunrise bad weather, but there are other tints which 
speak with equal clearness andaccuracy. <A bright yellow 
sky in the evening indicates wind; a pale yellow, wet; a 
neutral gray color constitutes a favorable sign in the eve- 
ning, and an unfavorable one in the morning. The clouds 
are again fullof meaning in themselves — If their forms are 
soft, undefined, and feathery, the weather will be fine; if 
their edges are hard, sharp and definite, it will be foul. 
Generally speaking, any deep, unusual hues betoken wind 
or rain; while the more quiet and delicate tints bespeak 
fair weather. These are simple maxims; and yet the 
British Board of Trade has thought fit to publish them for 
the use of seafaring men. 
Shot Gun and Aifle. 
GAME IN SEASON FOR NOVEMBER. 
Moose, Alces Malchis.) Caribou, Tarandus Rangifer.) 
Elk or Wapiti, Cervus Canadensis.) Red Deer, Caricus Virginians.) 
Rabbits, common Brown and Grey.) Squirrels, Red Black and Gray.) 
Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo.) Quail, Ortyx Virgintanus.) 
Ruffed Grouse, Bondsa wmbelus,; Pinnated Grouse, Cupidoria Cupido.) 
. All kinds of Wild Fowl. 
pepe SES SA 
| Under the head of “Game, and Fisn in Season’ we can only specefy wr 
general terms the several varieties, because the laws of States vary so much 
that were we to attempt to particularize we could do no less than publish 
those entire sections that relate to the kinds of yame in question. This 
would require a great amount of our space. In designating game we are 
guided by the laws of nature, upon which al legislation is founded, and 
our readers would do well to provide themselves with the lors of their re- 
spective States for constant reference. Otherwise, our attempls to assist them 
will only create confusion. | 
WOES 
—Rifle Clubs can secure not only the best American 
Manual of Rifle Shooting, but can get the best Breech- 
loading Rifles, made by the leading manufacturers, by sub- 
scribing to ForEsT AND STREAM. 
—The shooting season is nearly over in Canada, the cold 
weather and snow having driven the migratory birds farther 
south. However, if one does not mind being snowed under 


-or frozen up, there is still time to do some good deer shoot- 
ing before Dec. 1st in Ontario or January Ist in Quebec. 
The Toronto Sporting Times reports extraordinary duck 
shooting all through the season, thirty brace per day being 
nothing unusual. Messrs. Shears and party are having glo- 
rious sport at St. Clair Flats, and never in their ten years 
experience in that section have they had finer luck than 
this present trip. Their collection includes swan, seese, 
and every description of duck. 
In this connection, we think the observations of our 
Portland correspondent, who isa worthy and efficient mem- 
ber of the ‘‘Forest. City Shooting Club,” deserving of atten- 
tion. We print his letterherewith, regretting that it came 
too late for publication in our last issue:— 
PortLanp, Me., Nov. 8, 1873. 
Eprror ForEst AND STREAM:— 
Many of your readers may have noticed that within the 
last two or three years there has been a very perceptible 
increase in the number of sea shore birds, both marsh and 
water fowl, arising from the enforcement of the Canadian 
law forbidding the taking of birds’ eggs on the islands and 
shores around Labrador. To the class of gunners interest- 
ed in this species of game, it will doubtless be gratifying to 
learn, as they soon will, that gray coot, black duck and 
teal have been very plenty with us ‘‘Down Easters,” and 
now loons, ‘‘red divers,” shelldrakes, old squaws, grebes 
and various kinds of coot, are in great numbers in the coves 
and inlets, giving good promise of fine decoy shooting at 
‘‘Montauk,” ‘‘South Bay,” ‘‘ Barnegat,” ‘‘ Currituck,” 
&e. As to snipe, they have been, and are still, here in fair 
quantities; while woodcock are plenty, and ruffed grouse 
in greater numbers than for years previously. 
One noticeable feature of the movement southward of 
flight birds this season is its lateness, and the unusual num- 
bers that stop on the way at the various feeding grounds, 
with every appearance of remaining there till the last flight 
shall come along, which action on their part, will doubtless be 
fully appreciated by my numerous brother sportsmen, (of 
the salt water order), to the southward. While the game 
‘laws of our northern neighbors are being looked after so 
well, and with such beneficial results to all unners both 
there and here, we, of Maine, haye our own troubles to 

