FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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I would like to say a few words about 

 game protection. I see the different states 

 are passing laws limiting the number of 

 deer to be killed or held in possession, at 

 one time. This is right. It strikes directly 

 at the game hog and the market shooter, 

 alike. I favor neither but consider the 

 market shooter the better of the 2. 



I read a great deal about spring duck 

 shooting. Some men go out in the fall 

 and kill 20 or more birds in a day. Would 

 it not be better for that man's health if 

 he went out one day in the fall, and killed 

 10 ducks, then stopped and killed the other 

 10 some day the next spring? Would it 

 be any worse on the ducks, provided shoot- 

 ing was stopped. after April 1st, before the 

 ducks begin to nest? 



It would please all true sportsmen if 

 these game hogs would, when they so long 

 to slaughter something, adopt the same 

 plan we did, last Saturday, at the Wood- 

 land Gun Club grounds, and scatter in- 

 animate targets all over a 5-acre lot. When 

 this was done there was just as much game 

 in old Connecticut as before and we were 

 just as happy as if we had killed 100 birds. 



The following scores were made, out of 

 a possible 50: Burbridge, 49; Bisley, 47; 

 O. B. Treat, 44; Lucas, 44; Geiselman, 43; 

 Cushman, 42; See, 36; Owen Treat, 35; 

 F. Olmstead, 33; Pitkin, 27, and Water- 

 man, 27. 



Geo. W. Lucas, Hartford, Conn. 



I live in a nice little city, at the highest 

 point of the Ozark mountains, in South 

 Missouri. We have nearly all kind? of 

 small game, i.e., foxes, coons, 'possums, 

 red and gray squirrels, quails, ruffed grouse, 

 turkeys, minks, and some deer. The 

 streams furnish plenty of fish, both for 

 home and shipping. There are bass, pick- 

 erel, cat, suckers, red-horse, perch, buffalo 

 and carp. The game laws are so strict as 

 not to allow much chance for " game hogs." 



Recreation is the best sportsmen's book 

 published. 



T. A. Chapman, Mountain Grove, Mo. 



Game in this locality wintered well. 

 Mountain sheep are seen here quite often. 

 Last spring the swans sat around on the ice 

 for over a month, waiting for the lake to 

 thaw out. They fed in the creeks at night. 

 They get very weak, and it was sometimes 

 possible to catch them in the creeks, as they 

 could not rise without having 50 yards of 

 straight course. I think Recreation is 

 getting better all the time. I could not do 

 without it. J. B., Magdalen, Mont. 



charter members. The following officers 

 were elected: President, H. P. Bennett; 

 Vice-President, C. B. Woolley; Secretary, 

 C. L. Edwards; Treasurer, H. G. Woolley; 

 Captain, H. C. Mapes, Jr. 



The new club will shoot on the Kensing- 

 ton Park grounds. 



Chas. L. Edwards, Long Branch, N. J. 



I have been so busy this spring I went 

 hunting only twice. Got 2 ducks each time, 

 but as spring shooting is not a good thing 

 to engage in, I am not sorry I did not kill 

 more. The prospects for fishing and huntn 

 ing, the coming season, are good. 



Enclosed find $1 for renewal to Recrea- 

 tion. Can't do without it. 



J. J. McN., Cimarron, Col. 



I am an enthusiastic sportsman, but have 

 had no outing for 3 years, except to wheel 

 15 or 20 miles, occasionally, and to shoot 

 gophers with a little Winchester 22. In the 

 winter I hunt rabbits, with the same rifle, 

 just after a light snow. There is worse fun 

 than that, when a fellow can get nothing 

 better. A. McE., St. Paul, Minn. 



We have not much game here, owing to 

 the game laws not being enforced. The 

 foreigners, who work in the glass factories, 

 from lack of information or with no regard 

 for the laws, kill game at all seasons. I 

 have known some of our enlightened 

 American citizens to do the same. 



J. H. C, Springdale, Pa. 



I am interested in game and its preser- 

 vation. This part of Colorado was at one 

 time full of game, but the redskins and 

 game hogs have thinned it out. We have 

 a new game warden who means business. 

 Perhaps things will improve. 



R. B., Durango, Col. 



I like Recreation, as does everyone 

 who once reads it. Good duck shooting on 

 the lakes and ponds along the Big Muddy 

 last season. Market was glutted with mal- 

 lard, teal, and other wild fowl all the time. 

 G. A. H., Kansas City, Mo. 



Several deer have been seen here this 

 winter. Ruffed grouse are very plentiful, 

 but Bob Whites are scarce. These, with 

 foxes and rabbits, are our only game. 



H. B. B., Kent, Conn. 



The Kensington Gun Club was organized 

 here, on Wednesday, May 12th, with 20 



Please send me the names and addresses 

 of all the sportsmen of your acquaintance, 

 in order that I may send them sample 

 copies of Recreation. 



