, 1861-06-06


About fifteen gears ego it was thought that
Mr. John Il. Chapman, oil Oneida LAX :, n. T.,
could use the rifle st rest, OF eff hand; or at
movirg objects as we'll Is any other maa. He
Spent 1Dr:c yeara in practising, 1a; iu aud daY
CIT. BE plactised at rest from ten rods up to
rods up to Elk sundrel yards. Ha could hit
oIaDgcs and apples, and chips, thrown up in
the cir, with i sii;sL. bullet, u fact we'll known
TO Several Of ihr inba':i..nts Of New York.
This gentleman wac ore Of the celebrated
Central K'tt: Club SONG ts1 years a3o, aud at
tes: time TIC clns' could muster eouls twenty
most eSce1;ect .narls:na,i 1T rest. Mr.. Clap.
Nan lnt,,sE:s lis thai ha thiUls he is sat. in
ea,i, tlat c ..c:n'a hcc6 9: five hand1ed yar.ts
coald !.ave Eceo hit ence in !hr:c shots BY auT.
Ct them The r:il1s used by tbs members
were OF the 1,;s: and tiCeat make Of Edwin
y, Mssss3' Ct nsrticrd; =. Jams, ct u:lsa;
Ter; Ably, CT C1ics.o; and o,l=ra.
General a. DrnEenl. ct West Troy, at one
time probably wa3 the i,;:5t f1c shot, OF band
and :t 1est ccn birtd, that Te iad il tie cast
Grr s::tta. Tie bg=t merGsnen at game are
2lw:ys foo::d cn the trcat:Sr-Hherc game
Usoet do cclgregate.
s. mitch Il : wtat was though ten CT fifteen
years aeo. New for E.ures.
III 1S45 Mr. Van Val.rnhu,g, at 220 yards,
made ten shots 1T a target Line inches jr uf1:n-
eter, The f.,t:sEt tr,:1 VIC ccn.te Being three
sEcE.s. Two ::Ssi,s dso-: cut The ce1tr3 Of the
hull's eye, AID the total measurement Was 1s
In the eac>c 1.ar John /. Brown, Of NeT
Tcrl, at 20l ysrds, mcde tan Eho;s, with
measured. I; GIL centre OF bulls eye to blsak
OF bali, 12 is inches.
Il: 1S46 A1r. s. Lloyd, OF SeT York, made E
c,Ii!al si1in!s, measuring, from ceatre to cen:
yards.
Up to the close ef 1877 the s:aortes. ten shot
stT,EG 4, eco yards VIC cau lind measured 9 IS
inches, ctntre 10 ceEtre, which was made by q
grten hand in the Tes tern part Of this State,
Gnd is nt2l aushenlic2sed. We belic7e Mr..
Lloyd vcut hes !o7 Ills being the best shot up
to that time.-
1e4S ie memorable for the best strings on re-.
cord. On the 8th Of Apri! OF that year Mr.. Fl.
Btrtar, CT Michigan, ard Mr. Dimick, Of Gin
cinuati, ne! Ut CovsIgtoo, Kentucky, to shoot
match, tic frs: aud last which MI. Beraen
scn rife, ard Alr. Diuick one Of 3tr. Hudsoa's
make. After shooting two matches Of ten
sLots each, zoo yards, they shot 9 third at the
came distance, and the same number Of sLots,
which Mr. Ber,'an wop, making . string Of
eight inches! Mr.. pi1nick's being 1511z. Mr.,
Hc.lar wt,, the three ,natch:s, and We arc
Informed that tac s:ao. fart'sest array from tho
bu,i's e measured eniy II, inches, while Mr.
Dimic] r: paris the thirty suots OF Mr. 3 :rlan
to measure only, from break Of ball to centre
Of buE's tye, thirty-cjght and oneeighth
irches.
Din mick averaged r. little more than two
inci'ts 4. eco yards, ard Il Little more than one
irtf, ut 1C0 Yards.
In 1850 Jccl D. OEens mado q string Of LIZ
il,hes IL ten ehuts, go yards.
Same year, Mr.. Ferris, Of Utica. made 3
1851. E. T. Green, Of Nev York, in ten shote,
d! 5t0 ,:rtle, made string OF 81: 'nch.s.
1868. Dir. Lewis, Of Troy, at 222:v yards, mea3.
urtd Sc inches il twenty sIlose.
SINE Year, Mr. J:;hn Schiil, 2l0 yards, beat
Eve competitors, 10 shots each, measuring 2oi !:
| inches
1853. Morgan James, Of Utica. n. r, made
string ol ii inei,es, III $50 yards, forty shots;
and again in 1854 lie made n striug Of q little
more than 67 inches III for:y snot:, ut go
yards; II. F. Dimmick's farty shots measuring;
81 inches.
twenty-five successive shots, 1n:le string
averaging IL icchcs from ceatre to ccatrc..
1853, 4. +. Spencer, OF Nirstead, Conn.,, in
| ten eLots, measured from csntre to centre,
] 11ade a e1ri;g of 1G5A5 Inches Il 20 yards.
lS5G, Dir. II. c. ErwcoEl b, Of Natclez, Miss,
r3ede string Of s1h1 sseh1 inches in twenty shots
sans, yea1, Mr: Fl. ". Smith, Of Boston,
MGss., IN contest at Bellows Falls, ", mais
string Of 1GiS riches in ten uEoEs at go yards
beating niu!een good shc.s.
1857, Abner uovcns, Of South Farmiuston
Maes., at the second annual meeting Of the
National Rifle Club hcld 1t Waltharn, Mass.
Won the fsst prize, making string Of Is inch
| cs in 10 shots, at 4 distance Of 220 yards; W
B. Farinnton made the next best string, 15;SSS
! end ". ". Wctm0re next, 15-S l.
l. 1855, II. ". Smith, at the third annual meet
! ing OF the above named association, hell d
Waitham, in ten shots at go yalde, measured
! 15N inches, being the bcst string made fol
nine prizes. The ciub medal wa' awarded tt
S. Spencer, he having made the best 30 shots
which measured 543$s inches.
Thus it will be seen tlst, taking the RECORD
| for our guide, Mr. Il Berdan, Of Michigan
| must be pronounced tho champion shot, hav
ing mado the best ten shots and the best thirty
eliotsl Before closirg, however, We must gtvs
tho euhJoined from the California dn1tricon
| promising that the match came off In 1856, ant
that VIC do not place much reliance upon th'
statement:
| 4 trial Of skill between two crack shots 0
| San Francisco cane of lately at the ranch o
T, o, Selhy, Esq., below the r. stree. le7ee
Tic shooting was between DR.. Downes an<
T. O. Sslby. with the Doctors Wcsson rife
distance two hundred yards st q target OF tW'
and half inches in diameter. They fired te1
shots each. Five Of Selby's wcse centre shuts
end could be covered with 4 dime; tbs othe
five ranged from half <, threo-qnaE.ers OF q
| inch from the CENTRE Nine Of DR.. DoWnes'
shots were centre shots, al broken 10 to
eetler, and could be covered with half dol
far; the whole ten shots could be coVere
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