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    Posted by Gary Rennles on June 26, 2015, 10:09 am

    I spent the last 3 days, with no internet, phone, cable service and limited electric here on the east coast. The lack of modern convenience's is mind numbing to say the least.
    while cleaning up some files I found these, I don't know if they were posted here in the past.
    I just needed a outlet for my internet ramblings.




    Sporting Life vol. 27 no. 13
    June 20th 1896

    Parts of article:

    THE EMPIRE STATE
    GREAT GATHERING OF TRAP SHOOTERS
    AT BUFFALO, N. Y,
    The Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention
    of the New York State Sportsmen's
    Association Successfully Carried
    Out by the Buffalo Audubon Club,

    Dan "Lefever, Neaf Apgar and one or two other
    men reported that their gun cases had been
    stolen, This is one of the things to be regretted,
    but in such a crowd it is easy for a
    sneak thief to help himself to anything that
    he wants, and we wonder that more guns and
    cases are not stolen.


    Dan Lefever won a Smith gun in a raffle,
    and when Harvey McMurchy heard of it he said
    to Dan. "There, Uncle Dan, at last you have
    got good gun."


    Considerable amusement was furnished on
    Thursday when a gunner from the rural district
    came in and entered an open event. He was
    armed with a 10-bore hammer gun of ancient
    pattern, and his club shells were loaded with
    six drams of good old black powder, and nobody
    knows how much shot. The first time be
    touched off the cannon it startled everyone, and
    all made a rush for the spot. Those in the
    grand stand stood up to see what the trouble
    was, and the cries of "gun blew up" were heard.
    J. A. Flick, U. M. O. Thomas and "Sporting
    Life" reached the place just as the "rain-maker"
    was touched loose again. and the shock was so
    unexpected that all three of these worthies
    were sent sprawling on the ground. Soon a
    great crowd collected, and whenever a mighty
    roar was heard a huge balloon of smoke was
    sent skyward and trembling of the earth was
    felt, a mighty cheer would go up from the
    assembled multitude. It furnished great sport
    for awhile, and then the gunner disappeared
    in the smoke he had created and was seen no
    more.

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    Sporting Life vol. 36 no. 9
    Nov 17 1900


    To fit these guns with the proper ammunition,
    either for field or trap shooting is a very
    easy matter, as nearly every gun store in the
    country now handle factory loads of the finest make,
    with all combinations of powder, wadding and
    shot. A few trials will readily show
    which load is the best adapted for any
    particular gun. For trap shooting the
    most popular load is 3 drams of any of
    the bulk nitro powders, 1 1/8 oz. No. 7 1/2
    chilled shot, in any of the moderate priced
    cases. Most of the expert shots who are in
    constant practice, use 3 1/4 drams of nitro
    powder, 1 1/4 oz. No. 7 1/2 chilled shot in
    the high grade cases. These loads are
    adapted for inanimate target shooting.
    For live birds 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 drams of bulk
    nitro powder is used with 1 1/4 oz. No. 7 shot
    in the best grade shells. In the dense
    powders the load varies according to the
    make of powder. For field shooting 2 3/4
    drams nitro bulk powder and 1 or 1 1/8 No.
    7 or 8 shot in moderate price cases will
    do the work for quail, rabbits and grouse.

    link to full article
    http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1900/VOL_36_NO_09/SL3609011.pdf

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    Remarkable Glass-Ball Shooting.

    C. K. Sober, of Lewisburg, Pa., on Oct. 10, at
    the Union County Fair, shot eleven different ways
    at 108 glass balls and broke 100. Following are the
    positions of shooting and the score:
    Broken Missed
    From"right shoalder..............................10 0
    From left shoulder...............................10 0
    Springing his own trap...........................10 0
    Back to trap when balls were sprung........ ......8 2
    Shooting with one arm.............................7 3
    Gun held upside down over head, single
    balls............................................10 0
    Gnn held upside down over head, double
    balls.............................................7 3
    Double balls from right shoulder................ 10 0
    Double balls from left shoulder..................10 0
    Gun lying on table when balls were
    sprung............................................2 0
    Donble balls, from two traps, thirty yards
    apart, he standing on a line in centre bet
    tweeii traps, breakio g one ball from left
    shoulder and the other from light shoulder.......10 0
    Total............................. ............ 100 8



    Sporting Life Vol. 6 no. October 28 1885

    THE TRIGGER.
    London Truth:"I referred a week or two ago to the
    absurd character of some of the prizes offered for competition
    at volunteer shooting matches. Matters seem
    to be getting worse instead of better in this direction.
    Among the prizes set before the Second Oxford R. V. the
    other day were bottles of whisky and gin, gallons of
    beer, a clothes brush, a pair of braces, and a fork, spade
    and shovel. The Third Norfolk, however, had even a
    more ridiculous record, for the winner of a recent competition
    among the members of the competion found himself
    to be the proud possessor of a pig's head."




    Sporting Life Vol. 6 no.5 November 11 1885

    Noiseless powder is a new explosive sold in Massachusetts
    for use chiefly in the close season by pot hunters.
    It makes only one-third the noise of other powder, and
    is employed quite extensively when the shooting of
    game is prohibited by law.


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