388 RESULTS. 



The white hunters who used guns in the Bering Sea were banging 



away at the seals sometimes all day long, and 



Osly, p. 391. they would lose a great many of those that they 



had shot. I do not think that they brought to 



the schooner one-half of those that they killed, to say nothing of those 



that they wounded and got away. 



But since it has become the practice to hunt seals with guns a good 



many are killed, wounded, and lost. Green hunt- 



Wm. Parker, p. 344. ers bang away and wound more than they kill 



and will shoot six or seven before they get one; 



and sometimes more. Good hunters will do much better. I used to 



get most of the seals I killed, but I have killed five dead in succession 



and lost the whole of them. 



Our best hunters would secure half of the seals shot, but the poorest 

 ones would not get more than one out of twenty, 

 Chas. Peterson, p. 345. ^ avera g e being one secured out of five killed. 



An ordinary hunter will lose about four out of every six he kills. 



Some do not do near as well, while others do bet- 



Edioin P. Porter, p. 347. ter. The percentage of loss to those killed is less 



on the coast than it is in the Bering Sea, for the 



seals are more fat and do not sink as quick, but a great many are 



wounded and lost. The Indians, when they use the spears, lose but 



very few. They get up close to the sleeper and scarcely ever miss 



getting it. 



Shotgun is exclusively used by me for taking 

 Abel Ryan, p. 299. seals. Lose about 20 per cent of those killed 

 with shotgun. 



The captain, mate, and myself went out several times with the stern 



boat, and we killed 15 the first time we went out. 



Peter Simes, p. 476. I think we went out that way three or four times, 



and we usually got about one out of four killed. I 



recollect one day when we were hunting, bad weather set up, and we 



did not get any seals. In good weather we got more seals than we did 



in bad weather. 



Geo. Skultlca, p. 290. I lose pretty near half of the seal that I kill 

 [with the shotgun]. 



E. W. Soron, p. 479. And we only got about one out of five killed. 



[An ordinary hunter will not get] more than one 

 Cyrus Stephens, p. 479. Qut of twQ fchat be killgj and some tJ m eS not that. 



Our hunters used shotguns and lost a great 

 John A. Sivain, p. 350. many; I think we would save two out of five that 

 we killed. 



First. Pelagic sealing is wasteful, as a large percentage of seals 



killed are lost. Opinions on that point varying 

 Z. L. Tanner, p. 374. &om 3() to 7() per ceut< 



