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The National Geographic Magazine 



Flashlight. A Victim of the Gray Wolves Killed on the Verge of Safety 



White Fish Lake 



rowfully gorged themselves on musty 

 buck until the time arrived to pull up 

 stakes, pack the duffle, and depart for 

 civilization. This may be true, so far as 

 it relates to the cylinder of steel. Just 

 substitute the camera gun, with its accu- 

 rate tube of brass, and you are again 

 equipped for sport. The game bag is 

 never full, one's pleasures never satiated. 

 "Every camera hunter must admit that 

 more immediate and lasting pleasure is 

 afforded in raking a running deer from 

 stem to stern, at twenty yards, with his 

 5x7 bore camera than driving an ounce 

 ball through its heart at 100 yards. Then 

 think of the unlimited freedom of this 

 noiseless weapon. No closed season, no 

 restriction in numbers or methods of 

 transportation, no posted land, no pro- 

 fessional etiquette in the manner of tak- 

 ing your game, but you can pull on a 

 swimming deer or an elk floundering in 

 the snow, take a crack at a spotted fawn, 

 bag the bird on its nest, or string your 



cameras out like traps with a thread 

 across the runway and gather in the ex- 

 posed game-laden plates at nightfall with- 

 out any scruples about being called a pot 

 hunter or a game hog. 



"While it is true that whatever is game 

 to the gun is game to the camera, it must 

 be particularly noted that the latter's field 

 is much enlarged by the immense variety 

 of birds, animals, and reptiles which are 

 never considered fair prey for the hunts- 

 man. Game in the early days was de- 

 clared to be only such as was edible, and 

 this standard exists at the present time, 

 though certain predatory animals and 

 those possessing handsome pelts have at 

 times been pursued by sportsmen in the 

 vain effort to broaden the ever-narrowing 

 sphere of their activity. Non-game birds 

 and animals outnumber the edible class a 

 thousand times, and it is this great advan- 

 tage which_ makes ..jan.cl . wih-.conjinue^to^ 

 make camera hunting the more attractive 

 and permanent of the two methods of 



