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Mention Recreation. 



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There is little attention paid here to 

 the game law. Pot hunters scour the coun- 

 try and shoot everything they can hit in 

 the shape of game and song birds. Then, 

 when snow comes, they take their ferrets 

 and bags and get every rabbit that leaves 

 a track, in order to sell them for 5 cents 

 each. Thus they make good wages for a 

 week or so, and when a sportsman goes out 

 with dog and gun he is lucky if he can 

 start 2 or 3 rabbits. There ought to be a 

 law to prohibit the use of ferrets. I ob- 

 tained over 100 signatures to a petition 

 for such a law and sent it to our represen- 

 tative. He promised to put it through, 

 but never did anything in the matter. I 

 am going to try it again with our new 

 representative next fall, and I want the 

 help of the L. A. S. I hope to have 500 

 names on the next petition and shall not 

 rest until I get them. I also hope the L. 

 A. S. will present a bill to prohibit the 

 sale of rabbits for at least 5 years ; also 

 to prohibit the sale of fish taken from 

 small inland lakes and streams. When 

 spring opens there will, as usual, be a lot 

 of hogs violating the law, and if I catch 

 one you will hear from me. 



Drooks, Hillsdale, Mich. 



Should like to hear more through Recre- 

 ation about the Sidle rifle telescope. 



L. Bailey, Lead City, S. D. 



Your gun and ammunition department is 

 especially interesting. Please put in more 

 articles about the world-famed 44 calibre. 

 To my mind the 44 as a short range big 

 game gun is without a rival, being short, 

 light, accurate and powerful. As 90 per 

 cent of big game killed is at short range, I 

 do not see the need of the 30. The use 

 of the 30 on game ought to be forbidden 

 by law. Many deer are wounded by it, 

 only to perish beyond reach of the hunter. 

 Possibly there is a legitimate use for the 

 weapon in the Far West, but the only way 

 to save the deer in Minnesota, Wisconsin 

 and Michigan is to bar the long range, 

 game-wounding, 30 caliber rifle. 



W. Mashek, Kewaunee, Wis. 



White tail deer are still abundant at the 

 head of Flatwillow creek. So. also, are 

 antelope. Between the creek and Lake 

 Mason I saw one bunch of 37 and another 

 of over 60. Indians hunting wolf pups last 

 spring slaughtered many antelope. Farther 

 down, on t 1 3 Musselshell, antelope are rare, 

 but there are plenty of deer and a few 

 mountain sheep. Sage hens and prairie 

 chickens are more than plentiful. The set- 

 tlers here, with few exceptions, observe the 

 law. Newcomers on the Musselshell are 1 

 of a different class. They are butchering 

 game without mercy. 



Petaluma, Flatwillow, Mont 



