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I think Cody, Cherry County, Nebraska, the 

 best place in the West for duck and grouse 

 shooting, but there are no antelope there now. 

 A party of 4 of us was there last fall, and al- 

 though the weather was warm and the hunting 

 said to be the poorest for years, we bagged over 

 1,200 ducks. 



C. F. Mogle, Grinnell, la. 



Printed in a certain sportsmen's journal 

 without comment. I thought it possible 

 the figures might be wrong and asked 

 Mogle about it. Here is his answer: 



It is true we killed 1,200 ducks, but con- 

 sidering the time we were doing it, we did 

 not break the laws. We were there nearly 

 5 weeks. 



C. F. Mogle, Grinwell, la. 



You broke the laws of decency, if not of 

 Nebraska. No matter if you had stayed 

 there 5 months you had no right to kill so 

 many birds. There were 4 of you, so you 

 averaged 300 birds to each man. How 

 long would the ducks last if every man 

 who goes after them should stay and keep 

 on slaughtering till he got 300? You and 

 your friends may consider yourselves ini- 

 tiated into the Ancient Order of Game 

 Hogs, and you are entitled to all the 

 rights and privileges of same. — Editor. 



Hamfat — Can I put up here? 

 Hotel Clerk — Yes, if you put up. — Chi- 

 cago American. 



HUNTED DEER IN A PASTURE. 



To your inquiry as to whether my friends 

 and I killed 45 deer on one hunting trip 

 last fall, I have to answer in the affirma- 

 tive. We would have been just as well 

 pleased if we had killed only half the num- 

 ber, or even less than that. For 17 years 

 I have hunted at the same place, a pasture 

 of 10,000 acres, the owner keeping out all 

 hunters except myself and those I invite. 

 This because I have leased the right of 

 hunting from him for a number of years. 

 I never hunt more than once a year, gen- 

 erally from November 10 to December 1. 

 During the 17 years' hunting have been 

 careful to kill only bucks and barren does, 

 and sometimes yearling deer. Of the 45 

 deer. 34 or 35 were bucks. There were 3 

 of us who stayed out the month, and one 

 other man who stayed one week and killed 

 5 deer. We did not move camp once, and 

 no deer was killed over i l / 2 miles from 

 camp; so we did not really disturb more 

 than about % of the preserve. The deer 

 were in good condition, and we saved all 

 the meat. 

 Ernest E. Palmer, M.D., Kerrville, Tex. 



ANSWER. 



You have certainly made a frank con- 

 fession, and inasmuch as you evidently d<? 

 not realize the enormity of your offense 

 against good morals, I will not deal with 

 you so severely as I should otherwise have 

 done. I infer from what you say that the 

 land on which you hunted is under fence, 

 and that the deer can not get away. You 

 therefore probably have the same legal 

 right to go in that pasture and kill deer as 

 you would have to kill steers if you owned 

 them ; but you certainly would not consid- 

 er it sport to go in there and kill 45 head 

 of domestic cattle. Neither could any sane 

 man or party of men consider it sport to 

 go into a field and shoot down 45 deer that 

 are fenced in and have no chance of 

 escape. 



You and your friends have therefore 

 placed yourselves on the level of a village 

 butcher who would buy from a ranchman 

 a bunch of cattle, and who would then go 

 into his corral and slaughter them. 



Several sportsmen in your State have 

 written me condemning in "the most severe 

 terms this wanton killing, and all have re- 

 quested me to denounce you to the world. 

 Within 2 weeks after this issue of Recrea- 

 tion comes out, I shall doubtless receive 

 several hundred letters from various 

 States, commenting on your course in the 

 same terms your neighbors use. I trust 

 this may teach you that the time has 

 passed when cold blooded slaughter can 

 be considered sport among gentlemen. — 

 Editor. 



I have long been a reader of Recrea- 

 tion. I believe it the best magazine in 

 print. The way you roast game hogs is 

 all right. I used to be a fair sized shoat 

 myself, but have quit. 



Charles Kammerer, Oxford, Neb. 



