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THE GAME BREEDER 



been good ever since the first stock birds 

 were liberated. It is not unusual to flush 

 8 or 10 covies of birds during a short 

 day's shooting and also a lot of ruffed 

 grouse which are often called "part- 

 ridges" on the island. A few big fall 

 wood-cock and the two rabbits named 

 above lend a pleasing variety to the bag, 

 and it is not difficult for those who shoot 

 well to get the bag-limit daily. 



There is much heavy cover, including 

 scrub-oaks and briars, and many chances 

 for difficult shots occur during a short 

 ramble; there are fine stubbles and weed 

 fields and orchards where the shots at 

 the covies and at the fleeting cotton- 

 tails are more easy. 



Some years ago the Pointer Club held 

 ' Its field trials on our grounds and it was 

 largely due to some remarkable work on 

 ruffed Grouse that Merry Girl won her 

 derby. Bismark, another winner, had to 

 do some splendid work on quail in the 

 open to offset his getting beyond control 

 and being fairly lost on points in the 

 brush. 



There are many picturesque old roads 

 through the woods, and in places the 

 ground is sufficiently elevated to enable 

 the sportsman to obtain fine views of the 

 bay, the outlying beach and the wide 

 ocean beyond, dotted with shipping out- 

 bound or headed inward towards New 

 York. 



Although there is no duck shooting 

 within the limits of the preserve it is an 

 easy matter to make an excursion to the 

 bay after ducks, from the Bayside Hotel 

 which is the club headquarters. The 

 bay shooting — which includes red-heads, 

 scaups or broad-bills, geese, and other 

 migratory wild foul, — often is excellent 

 and good guides, with boats, decoy, etc., 

 can be secured at the hotel. 



During the season bay-snipe shooting 

 often is good and there are some excel- 

 lent snipe bogs on the beach-side where 

 fine bags of jack-snipe often are made 

 when the flight of these birds is on. 



The annual dues of the club are fifteen 

 dollars. The initiation fee is ten dollars. 

 The membership is limited to twenty- 

 five. The club revenues are expended 



for warden fees, shooting leases, trap- 

 ping, restocking and feeding the game. 

 No game keeper is employed. There is 

 only one warden who lives on the ground 

 and looks after the club's interest. 



The game has steadily increased in 

 numbers and last season all of the mem- 

 bers had good shooting. ' Like most of 

 the other clubs we have a trap for trap- 

 shooting and often members visit the 

 club in the spring and summer for a 

 week-end practice shoot at the traps. 

 Sometimes friendly matches are shot. 



The club members have an arrange- 

 ment with the Bayside Hotel, which is 

 located on the ground, under which they 

 pay $2.00 per day for board and lodg- 

 ing. 



The rooms are comfortable and the 

 meals are good, there being an excellent 

 market at hand for all sea foods and 

 good gardens connected with the hotel. 



Members are permitted to invite guests 

 during the shooting season and many 

 picturesque groups of rabbit and quail 

 shooters have been photographed on the 

 porch of "The Bayside" and in the fields 

 and woods. 



The shooting is good in the immediate 

 vicinity of the hotel but parties often 

 drive out to more distant parts of the 

 preserve where the warden can show 

 them some good ruffed grouse shooting. 



Many little swampy thickets give the 

 merry beagles all they can attend to and 

 it is not unusual for them to flush and 

 send out a grouse or wood-cock with 

 the fleeting bunny. 



The sportsman can leave New York 

 by rail late in the afternoon, have a 

 good dinner at the Bayside and be pre- 

 pared for an early start for the fields 

 the next morning. It is an easy trip 

 by automobile over good roads all the 

 way to the preserve. As I heard the 

 Editor of The Game Breeder say not 

 long ago: "Fortunate is the man who 

 is in good standing in the Eastport Rod 

 and Gun Club." 



Prices now are about one-half what 

 they will be later. Only the best deal- 

 ers advertise in The Game Breeder. 



