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prescribed limits of game sanctuaries, as it is a 

 patent fact that horsemen cause a very appre- 

 ciable amount of destruction by random firing, and 

 wounding, without gathering, vast numbers of the 

 game, and perhaps even more by driving the herds 

 out of the limits of accessibility. 



In fact, it is safe to say that whereas foot hunters 

 merely decimate game, mounted parties exter- 

 minate it permanently and rapidly. Moreover, it 

 should be made obligatory on all persons receiving 

 permits to hunt in protected localities to remove 

 all elevating back sights from their weapons other 

 than a fixed standard one for one hundred yards, 

 and that the sights so removed be deposited for 

 safe keeping with a duly accredited official, 

 responsible for their return to the owners at a 

 period to be arranged for. 



Furthermore, it would be most desirable to get 

 a law made by the dominant power in the localities 

 adverted to, making it a penal offence for any 

 unlicensed person, irrespective of colour, to be 

 found in possession of firearms (revolvers and 

 pistols for defensive purposes excepted) within 

 limits to be made known by proclamation. 



Even where expense is only a secondary con- 



