84 CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME 



Game Warden Roswell C. Welch, Kernville, California, provides 

 the following report of another instance of buck injury tlirough fight- 

 ing in the rut. 



On Wednesday, November 29, 1933, I received a report that an injured deer 

 had boon found near Ilavilah by some C. C. C. men. Upon my arrival at the 

 camp, the superintondont sent a couple of lads with me to point out the place whore 

 the deer was. 



I found the deer to be a very large buck which had apitarontly been in a 

 battle with another of his kind and had come out second best. One antler had 

 broken off inside of the skull, aiid buns useless. There were two punctures in his 

 side which had pierced his lungs. His body was covered with cuts and gashes. 

 While still alive, it was plain he would soon die so we morci fully dispatched him 

 and dressed the carcass in an attempt to save the meat. 



Apparently, there had been a terrific encounter, as brush and small (reos had 

 boon tramj)lod and the ground had boon torn up over a considerable area. There 

 was all the evidence of a battle royal. This buck was extraordinarily large for 

 this vicinity ; his antlers had five distinct points on each side and several minor 

 points which some would have counted, but I considered him a fine five-point buck. 



It would have been interesting to have seen what this buck's adversary looked 

 like, and I am wondering how he fared in the encounter, not to mention' my 

 curiosity as to his size. 



The deer in this vicinity are at present right in the middle of the rut, which 

 was the cause of this fight. Quite often, on patrol, I see evidence of battles in 

 the torn up ground, and sometimes I see a couple of bucks fighting, but usually 

 these fights are of short duration. One would be fortunate indeed to have boon 

 able to have witnessed this fight. 



—James Moffitt, Division of Fish and Game, San Francisco, Decemher 

 4, 1933. 



DEER FENCING LAW REPEALED 



Chapter 732, Statutes of 19-33, repealed sections 1G2 to 165 inclu- 

 sive of the Agricultural Code. These sections included the so-called 

 "Deer Fencing Law" which was enacted by the 1931 Legislature, and 

 provided for State contributions toward the erection of deer proof 

 fences to protect crops that were endangered by deer. 



The section providing for the issuance of revocable permits by the 

 Fish and Game Commission for the killing of deer upon evidence of 

 their destruction of crops was not altered by the 1933 Legislature, but 

 was merely reworded and is now section 1293 of the Fish and Game 

 Code. — James Mojfitt, Division of Fish and Game, San Francisco, 

 December 21, 1933. 



DEER HUNTING SUCCESS IN ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST 



W. L. Sears, Acting Supervisor of the Angeles National Forest, 

 has provided some interesting statistics relative to the number of 

 hunters, cars and success of hunters entering the Saugus District of that 

 national forest during the first three days of the 1933 deer season as 

 compared with the previous year. This information was compiled by 

 Ranger M. W. Durham of the Saugus District and is printed here 

 through the kindness and permisison of J. W. Nelson, Assistant 

 Regional Forester, U. S. Forest Service. 



Sears remarks that "there is a reduction in numbers [of hunters] 

 under that of last year which is due, most likely, to the change in the 

 dates of the opening of the season, there being two seasons in adjoining 



