THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



wheat are fed to wild ducks along the Columbia River each 

 season to decoy the birds to the blind. 



The high rents that are paid for shooting privileges and the 

 large amount of wheat that is fed places a money value on many 

 ducks of from two to five dollars each. It is this excessive cost 

 and these conditions that make many duck, hunters feel that they 

 have a right to kill a large number of birds because they are 

 paying out a big amount of money. The sport, therefore, is re- 

 duced to a money basis. It is but natural that certain of these 

 duck hunters are asking for the privilege of selling their ducks. 



For many years it has been a sort of an unwritten law with 

 the best class of sportsmen along the Columbia to shoot but once 

 a week. Certain hunters are overstepping this rule and shooting 

 twice and three times a week. The Federal law for the protec- 

 tion of migratory birds lays down a rule that is fair for one and 

 all — no shooting between sunset and sunrise. Yet there is a 

 certain class of sportsmen who cannot withhold from potting 

 birds before the legal time of shooting. 



We desire to call the attention of those sportsmen who are 

 interested in duck shooting along the Columbia to the facts and 

 conditions as they exist today. The time has come when the 

 better class of sportsmen must assert themselves and when the 

 spirit of real sportsmanship must be shown. 



ANOTHER HUNTER KILLED. 



In addition to the hunting accidents published in the Novem- 

 ber issue of The Oregon Sportsman, Louis Meyers, of Canby, was 

 accidentally shot November 18th by Clifford Nill. These two, with 

 Walter Krueger, were hunting ducks along the Pudding River 

 bottom. Meyers was in front of Nill, about six feet, when a 

 flock of ducks flew up. Meyers threw up his gun for a quick 

 shot. Nill, who was a few feet behind, must have started to do 

 the same thing, when his weapon was discharged and Meyers got 

 the full charge of shot between the shoulder blades. Death fol- 

 lowed almost instantly. Meyers was 28 years old and unmarried. 



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