250 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
NOTES FROM THE ROGUE RIVER 
COUNTRY 
By Warpen Ep WALKER. 
Deer are increasing in Jackson County each year, although they 
are much harder to find than they were eight or ten years ago. Only 
those who hunt each year realize that under the present system of 
fire patrol deer have better cover and are much harder to find than 
a few years ago. 
My work as a timber cruiser about ten years ago took me to 
all parts of Jackson County. At that time the timber, especially the 
pine, had very little underbrush. At the present time it is almost 
impossible to see over the brush in places even on horseback. The 
bucks, as every hunter knows, select places where he is least apt to 
be disturbed, consequently the thickets never get too thick and high 
for him. 
It is surprising how quick deer will learn the places where they 
are least bothered by the hunters. For example, there is a place 
on the Big Applegate known as “Slick Rock Gulch,” that is so rough 
and steep that hunters seldom ever venture there. Warden Apple- 
gate and myself visited this place and found it chuck full of bucks, 
while at the same time it was very nearly impossible to “bag one” 
on the easy hunting grounds adjoining this place. 
The hunters in Jackson County have not had the luck up to date 
that they had in the fore part of the hunting season last year on ac- 
count of the cool weather high up in the mountains where it has been 
too cold this summer for the flies that worry the deer, therefore the 
deer have stayed high up and away from the flies. 
The most successful bunch of hunters I have “checked up” this 
season were Ross Brothers and a party from Central: Point, Oregon. 
There were nine in the party and they had 15 nice buck deer on their 
wagon to repay them for a ten-days’ hunt. This party was camped 
on the West Fork of Evans’ Creek, near the head. 

WHAT ONE GAME HOG DONE 
Charles Doyle states he was hunting ducks on the Mississippi River 
last week when he saw two men in a launch doing a great amount of 
shooting, considering only two men were in the boat. The launch after- 
ward landed near by and Doyle went to investigate how these two men 
could fire so many cartridges in succession. One of the men had an 
automatic shotgun with about six or seven feet of garden hose attached 
to it, near the breech of the gun. He said he noticed a small brass cog- 
wheel on the side of the gun’s magazine. It was explained to him that 
the cogwheel moved until all the cartridges were out of the regular 
Magazine, when the mechanism opened the brass framework attached 
to the hose and the cartridge feeder to the gun. The hose contained 
a spring, which supplied fifteen additional cartridges to the automatic 
gun, in the same manner as the regular magazine, after the cartridges 
in it were discharged. The man claimed he could get every duck in a 
flock with this gun, which literally filled the air with shot. —St. Louis © 
Globe-Democrat. 
