COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 169 



A. Sinclair. — Wounded 8 or 9, but none badly enough to canse death. 



W. Edwards. — Seals that are badly wounded always got. 



G. F. French.— "Hfot many. 



W. M. Christian. — 1 or 2 might have escaped and died. 



P. Jolihia. — Very few. 



T. O'Leary. — Took 240 seals in 1890, and wounded not more than 15 

 that got away. 



L. McGraw. — Wonnded 10, but doesn't think any would die. 



H. F. Steward. — Percentage of wounded seals that escape is very 

 email. 



D. A. Lewis. — A mortally wounded seal does not often get away. 



SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE AS TO DISTANCES AT WHICH 



SEALS ARE SHOT. 



Witli reference to the distance at which seals are shot 

 at, as bearing on the chances of losing wounded seals, the 

 following statements referring to the actual practice of 

 hunters may further be cited : 



J. FtZson.— Shot seals at a range of from 10 to 15 yards (p. 355). British Case, 



W. i^'ewin^g.— General range for rifles not over 50 yards, but few jjf ^*^" u i, i^t ed 

 hunters attempted that range. In getting 400 in 1887 failed to cap- states No. 2 

 ture about 25 shot at, or killed, or wounded, but which escaped (I89i)," pp. 355- 



(p.355). 357. 



194 Captain J. D. Warren. — Sleepers are shot at from 10 to 15 yards 



range, "feeders" from a few feet to 100 yards, though few are 

 fired at at that distance (p. 355). 



Captain H. F. Sieivard. — I generally take 10 per cent, additional 

 ammunition for waste shot, that is, if calculating on a catch of 3,000 

 seals, take ammunition for 3,300 shots. This is double the excess the 

 hunters would consider necessary, and I never knew that percentage 

 of waste shot to be used (p. 356). 



G. Howe. — Uses shot-gun principally, rifle only for long range, say, British Case, 

 30 to 60 yards (p. 357). ' m'"'" u^n i\e d 



Captain C. J. Eelley. — Average range for sleeping seals 10 to 20 yards, state s 'no 3 

 for travelling seals 10 to 30 yards (p. 168). (1892)," pp. 167, 



Captain W. Petit. — Average range for sleeping seals 10 to 20 yards; 191- 

 10 to 30 yards for " travellers" (p. 169). 



Captain W. E. Baker. — Ten yards is a safe shooting distance at 

 "sleepers," and 10 to 30 at " travellers" (p. 173). 



Captain C. N. Cox. — Fifteen yards, shooting distance at sleeping 

 seals (p. 175). 



Captain A. Bissett. — Shoots at sleeping seal when 20 to 30 feet from 

 it, and at a traveller when 25 to 30 yards away (p. 177). 



Captain T. JV. Magneten. — Twenty-five yards at "sleepers" and 45 

 to .50 at " travellers" is safe shooting distance (p. 178). 



H. Crocker.— The usual distance for shooting at a sleeping seal is 

 about 20 feet (p. 180). 



G. Roberts. — Shoots at sleeping seals when 20 to 30 feet from them, 

 and at "travellers" when from 25 to 30 feet [yards] from them 

 (p. 181). 



The following additional statements on the same subject, 

 including experience in 1892, are contained in the aifidavits 

 of hunters and boat-steerers subsequently obtained: 



J. Townsend. — Three years a hunter; shoots sleeping seals at 15 yards 

 range, and has killed a " traveller " when 60 yards away, but seldom 

 shoots at a seal when that distance away. 



Captain A. Douglas. — Eight years' experience; shoots at a sleeping .. Appendix, vol. 

 seal when 40 or 50 feet from it. "> PP- *^"^- 



G. Roberts. — Four years' experience — two as hunter; shoots sleeping 

 seals at from 5 to 15 yards range, and never lost but one seal eLot at 

 while sleeping, and that was by going after another seal and leaving 

 the first too long. He shoots at a travelling seal at from 20 to 50 yards 

 range. 



M. Ryan, who has been sealing ten years, shoots at sleeping seals 

 when from 12 to 15 yards from them. 



