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employed these guides during the year, 

 and that 7-579 deer and 216 moose have 

 been killed. This is an average of about 

 one-half a deer to each sportsman. It 

 should be remembered, however, that a 

 great many men who employ guides do so 

 only for fishing; so that if the 2 classes 

 were divided it would probably be shown 

 that there has been killed about one deer, 

 on an average, by each hunter. 



My business takes me through the coun- 

 try a great deal, and some of the trips are 

 made on my wheel. I find quails plentiful. 

 Go where you may 'irough this section 

 and you will hear the merry notes of 

 Bob White. Quails hatched early, and a 

 great many will rear a second brood. 

 Sportsmen anticipate great shooting this 

 fall. Squirrels are scarce, but rabbits are 

 plentiful. 



F. M. Leech, Lima, O. 



Our Colorado game law opens August 

 15th on deer and antelope and closes No- 

 vember 5th; horned elk, October 25th to 

 November 5th. I took a party of New 

 Yorkers out the 9th of June. Our dogs 

 put a bear up a tree and it was shot by 

 Miss Pomroy. We were out only about 5 

 hours. 



W. H. Hubbard, Glenwood Springs, 

 Colo. 



Elk are coming back to their summer 

 haunts in the mountains, and the foothills 

 are full of them. Thirteen wintered in 

 sight of my ranch. Antelope are here by 

 the thousands, and can be seen on every 

 hill. Soon the Indians will be here slaugh- 

 tering elk and antelope. Is there any 

 way of getting Uncle Sam to keep his pets 

 at home? 



W. G. Warren, Echo Dell Ranch, Wyo. 



Replying to Mr. Wagner, Emporia, 

 Kan. : There is no hunting or fishing in 

 the neighborhood of either Springer or 

 Los Vegas. Both places are in a barren 

 district. The climate is dry but disagree- 

 able, the wind blowing a gale for weeks at 

 times, filling the air with dust. 



Fred. W. Hambledon, Tres Piedras, 

 N. Mex. 



Mr. G. E. Morris wants a law forbid- 

 ding minors to hunt. I ana 16 years old 

 and if all hunters and hogs shot as 

 many song birds as I have there would 

 be millions of them left, because I never 

 shot one in my life. I use T2 and to gauge 

 shot guns and a .38-55 rifle, and I'll bet I 

 am more of a sportsman than Mr. Morris. 

 Bernie Doyle, Rotterdam Jet., N. V. 



Without doubt there will be good chick- 

 en and quail shooting here this fall. Last 

 fall shooting was better than for a number 

 of years past. If game continues to in- 

 crease in the next 5 years as it has in 

 the last 5 there will be plenty of sport in 

 this part of Nebraska. Wild geese and 

 ducks were not plentiful this spring. 



Geo. W. Nellis, Dannebrog, Neb. 



Our fish and game club is doing good 

 work in stocking the streams and seeing 

 that only legitimate methods are employed 

 in taking fish. Our hardier birds seem as 

 numerous as usual, notwithstanding the 

 severe winter, but I notice quite a falling 

 off in some of the smaller and less hardy 

 ones. 



James M. Graves, Potsdam, N. Y. 



Florida has practically no game laws: 

 they are so inconsistent as to be void. I 

 lived in the Southern part of Polk county. 

 Our open season was the winter months. 

 De Soto county, adjoining us. has an open 

 season during the summer. The result is 

 not hard to find — the game is. 



Fred. W. Porter, Augusta, Ga. 



This is a great country for game. Elk, 

 moose, deer, caribou, goats, hundreds of 

 sheep and fur-bearing animals of all kinds, 

 and fish. I have caught fish here called 

 char, weighing 25 pounds each. We use 

 more .44-40S here than anything else, and 

 I have killed lots of bear with one.' 



Wm. J. Moore, East Kootenai, B. C. 



The boys here are all content with a fair 

 bag of game. There are millions of birds, 

 yet parties of 2 or 3 persons never bring 

 in more than 40 in a day. I am afraid the 

 quails were all killed last winter. I have 

 not heard of any being seen since the cold 

 weather in February. 



W. L. Phelps, West Plains, Mo. 



This is a good place for game. The 

 hard winter did not affect quails. They are 

 whistling in every field. Grouse are plen- 

 tiful, and iacksnipe and woodcock are not 

 scarce. Plenty of fox squirrels and rab- 

 bits. 



F. Kingsford, Fremont, Mich. 



I have given every copy of Recreation 

 received to a member of a gun club who 

 would once have shot an egg if there was 

 a chicken in it. Now he sees where the 

 game has gone, and regrets his part in its 

 destruction. 



j. II. Weir, Boone, Iowa. 



