Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-12-21
THE BIG RABBIT HUNT
| The Sports Raid the Home OF the
Jacks and COttOn-ta tails.


the big combination hunt OF jack
rabbits by the Sportsmen's Club
of the Western part Of the State
Over thirty hunters were on the
ground by 8 clock in the morning
despite the threatening weather.
From Virginia City came Hon.
William WOODBURY., Congressman
elect, d. E. Mccarthy, editor Of
the Chronicle, Joe Mallon, Warren
Sheridan and John Piper, and
others.
Woedburn carried Green fowl
ing piece Of 46 caliber, Mccarthy
had an elegant Parker gun, won On
the election Of Cleveland from
Hon. Steve Gage, Sheridan carried
six-shooter Of the navy pattern
and was offering to bet that he
could kill more than any body with
his favorite weapon. As soon as
Sherry got off the train he began
to throw chips up in the air and
plug at them on the fly. He
missed every chip. They got away
from him just as if he was playing
faro. At each miss he would pull
$50 out of his pocket and offer to
bet it to so that he could hit the
next. The Carson yomenrv de-
clined to bet, suspecting job; and
Sherry told the reporter confident
tally that he missed in order to
draw out some bets. John Piper.
the theatrical manager, had an an
cient Government fiint-lock that he
found underneath a joist In the old
Caledonia hosting works. 1t was
as good as it was 60 years ago anu
the flint was as sharp on the edge
as the last day it was fired. All
it needed was a few feet Of baling
rope around the stock and lit
tie few feet further up to
make it reliable and serviceabie
weapon. to keep dogs from devour-
ing the game after it was shot.
Piper Dragged loudly of what the
gun could do, but when closely
examined by a reporter admitted
that he had never fired it, aud
wasn't quite sure it was loaded.
Joe Mallon with the assistance
of a boy packed the big fare-muz-
zle blunderbuss which Jim Orn-
dorf took into the odd Brln
hunt in IS.
The Reno delegation was of
course headed by General Pown-
ing who carried long range Med
lesbos rifle with catch-as-cateh can
triggers and globe locks. Along
the top of the barrels was tele
scope such as is used in surveying
and the whole was seared so as to
mount on a tripod and swing to the
front like a theodolite Of the 32nd
The weapon was very
much admired, and Powning held
that he knocked the tail off a
jack rabbit at 5000 yards on the
wing. 1t would thow a ball from
the Reno Asylum to the State Cap
itol, and was certain obstruction in
any climate. Nate Rolf had a
Merlin magazine gun which pun
ped 60 shots a minute in cool day
and each ball was good for every
rabbit it hit. Gen. Hagerman was
there with a Kentucky rife such
as his ancestors used before the
wah. 1t came down to the Hag
erman family from Davy Crockett
and by filling the worm holes with
putty it looked quite sound. Hag-
erman patted the stock of the
weapon atfectionately and said if
Cleveland needed any help from
the peice on March 4th he'd be
there.
Carson was represented by Geo.
Davis, De Neuff, Sam Wright, Geo.
Thaxter and Sheriff Swift. They
all carried the latest make of
breech- leaders. Davis and De-
Neuff carried the Parker shotgun
with cutoff trip hammer and
oblique wind gauges and the rest
had the regular target rifles. Their
idea was to put a big 5OO-yard tar
get up in the sage-brush and have
the rabbits driven across the range.
AS soon as the rabbit obcsured the
bulls-eye they would shoot, bag
the game and make Creedmoor
cooro of tho SAUNA f1oo Thox, xvora