Photography and the Sportsman 21 



could find a similar pleasure in working equally 

 hard for like results with a camera, and I am 

 sure if they could once be induced to try it that 

 they would agree with me when I say that so far 

 as excitement is concerned the sports are about 

 equal, or, if anything, the advantage lies with the 

 camera. 



Nowadays, in our hunting with a camera, the 

 continued life of the animal we are after is an 

 absolute necessity to the successful outcome of 

 our quest, and he who would be in the fore ranks 

 of the sportsman photographers must be ready to 

 follow and photograph the moose and panther at 

 bay and even the rattlesnake coiled for a strike. 

 Does it not require a greater amount of courage 

 to face an angry mountain lion with a camera 

 than with a Winchester .30-40 ? I think it does. 

 And he who is equal to the nerve and endurance 

 testing stalk of a deer in order to photograph 

 it can, in my mind, lay claim to being a truer 

 hunter and sportsman than he who would shoot 

 that same deer from a distance three or four times 

 as great. So I will unhesitatingly say, that to 

 any one who follows the chase for the mere excite- 

 ment that it affords, the camera can offer far 

 greater advantages for attaining his object than 

 can the rifle. 



Let me quote from one of these men who was 

 at all times an ardent lover of nature and a sports- 



