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RECREA TION. 



P. C, Carthage, Mo., evidently meant to 

 say, in exploiting his father's shooting 

 abilities, " before they got off the ground," 

 instead of, " before they got out of range." 

 With reference to my brother's shooting, 

 as reported in Recreation: The birds 

 were flushed by me, after having been found 

 by " Sister," the best little pointer in Ohio, 

 and my brother killed 3 dead and crippled 

 the 4th so badly that we got it, too. It will 

 be remembered he was shooting a Win- 

 chester repeating shot gun. But that's 

 right, P. C. Make 'em give you all the 

 details. Bert Cassidy, Chicago, Ilk 



The Legislature made some changes in 

 the game laws, but they are hardly any 

 better than before. The provision for a 

 State game warden was killed. There 

 might as well be no laws, when there is no 

 one to enforce them. 



Illegal netting is going on in the Mis- 

 souri, between Logan and Canyon Ferry. 

 The result is a diminution of trout and 

 grayling. Thousands of geese and brant 

 passed over here, on their way North, last 

 spring. The flight of ducks was small. 

 Prospects are good for feathered game 

 generally. A. B., Helena, Mont. 



Our new game law is similar, in some 

 respects, to others passed in Montana. 

 With no game warden to enforce it, game 

 will be killed and sold by pot hunters as 

 heretofore. Every one who knows of it 

 seems afraid to inform. One big party, 

 coming into the State to hunt, leaves 

 enough money to pay 2 or 3 wardens. With 

 game properly protected, settlers and 

 ranchers could get all the winter's meat 

 they need, with, plenty of game every year 

 for sportsmen. As it is now the ranchers 

 have to eat hog and tough beef. 



W. A. H., Fridley, Mont. 



A letter from the Rangeley region says: 

 " Three deer, a buck and 2 does, made their 

 appearance in front of the Ledge house 

 April 22d, the first for the season. They 

 came near to the house, and were tame. 

 Apparently they were looking for their old 

 place to get salt, which was then over- 

 flowed with water. The deer have become 

 so accustomed to being fed with salt, and 

 not being molested in any way, that one is 

 almost sure of seeing from one to half a 

 dozen every day, in the summer months, 

 from the Ledge house piazza." 



Colorado will be for some time a fine 

 game State, if the laws are enforced. I 

 think all reliable guides should be licensed 

 and then appointed game wardens. There 

 should also be a bounty on lions, coyotes, 

 wolves, lynx, and bob cats, as they kill 

 more game than do hunters. 



I know where 2 big silver-tips holed up 

 last fall, in a canyon about 20 miles from 

 here. I am going after them soon. 



C. A., Dotsero, Col. 



For the benefit of W. C. S., and some 

 others who have been annoyed by my letter 

 printed in February Recreation, I will say 

 the game spoken of in that letter was part 

 of the game I killed in 1896, and not in 2 or 

 3 days as it appeared in print. I regret the 

 error should have been made but supposed 

 every reader would understand that it was 

 an error and that I had no intention of 

 claiming I bagged it in so short a time. 



W. H., Akron, O. 



The spring flight of Canada geese was 

 unusually large this year. The rainfall was 

 heavy, and all the " sand hill " lakes are 

 full. The prospect for fall shooting is 

 good. Ducks and geese will be plentiful, 

 though chickens are scarcer every fall. The 

 sportsmen about here are making strong 

 efforts to put a good big " crimp " in the 

 game hogs, who slaughter thousands of 

 young chickens for the market every year. 

 G. H. P., Pine Ridge Agency, S. D. 



The deer have been about all run out of 

 here, by prospectors; but I killed what I 

 needed — 6 in all. During the winter, I 

 caught 2 foxes, 3 lynx, 1 cougar and 1 

 fisher. There is little sign of fur now. The 

 foxes nearly all left last fall, but will come 

 back up in the mountains when the snow 

 is settled. This is the poorest point for 

 fishing I was ever in. 



J. H. C, Silver, Wash. 



I am a regular reader of several sports- 

 men's periodicals, but Recreation is away 

 ahead of the others. We have good fishing 

 and hunting in this locality. I hunted 2 

 days last fall and killed 8 deer. Bear and 

 mountain lions are plentiful, with a good 

 supply of small game, such as rabbits, 

 grouse, ducks, etc. 



J. B., Kalispell, Mont. 



In the Northern counties of our State, 

 deer are plentiful, with fair numbers of cats, 

 lynx, foxes and an occasional black or 

 brown bear; also quails, pigeons and 

 grouse. Should any reader of Recreation 

 desire to come to this State on a pleasure 

 trip, or to go hunting, he might arrange to 

 accompany us on our annual outing. 



Benj. W. Ferris, 

 962 B'way, East Side, Oakland, Cal. 



I like Recreation very much and read it 

 from cover to cover. 



Game is plentiful around here. I saw 29 



