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RECREATION. 



that it must be protected to be shot for 

 sport only, it should be protected perpetu- 

 ally. The pleasure derived from taking the 

 life of a dumb animal is of a low order 

 and is a relic of barbarism. When hunting 

 is practiced for recreation, it should be 

 with a camera only. 



Oral Miller, Agnes, Ore. 



ANSWER. 



If you must kill the deer to protect your 

 crops, the latter would not be entirely safe 

 until all the deer were dead. That would 

 indeed be a sad remedy. Your best pro- 

 tection would be a Page wire fence 88 

 inches high, which costs $2 a rod. The 

 deer can not see the top wires and so do 

 not jump it. This fence is generally used 

 in zoological parks and holds elk, deer, an- 

 telope, etc. — Editor. 



• SUGGESTIONS FOR PROTECTION. 



I agree in part with E. G. Pettit, in Feb- 

 ruary Recreation ; by all means shorten 

 the open season. He speaks of the old 

 much praised and much abused licenses. I 

 think a plan I have conceived would not 

 hurt the poor man, and certainly would not 

 the rich, but would benefit both in that 

 there would soon be plenty of game. 



A license fee of $1 should be charged 

 every man who hunts out of his own coun- 

 ty, and the dollar should be collected in 

 every county other than his own. Have 

 the money collected for license and for 

 fines, say $10 for evasion or negligence in. 

 obtaining license, spent in the introduction 

 of game birds. Then protect the planted 

 birds 5 years from first stocking. I would 

 also welcome any other plan to protect and 

 increase the game supply. With a law of 

 this character men from the town who come 

 to hunt with us farmers will get something 

 besides fresh air ; and their dogs, that have 

 been trained and boarded at heavy expense, 

 will get something besides curses and sore 

 feet. I should like to see this discussed in 

 Recreation by members of the L. A. S., and 

 farmers only. 



D. D. Wakeman, Searsburg, N. Y. . 



GAME NEAR ARGENTINA. 

 Argentina game hogs have not yet butch- 

 ered everything, so one can readily find 

 places where the number of game birds be- 

 wilders one. With a .22 repeater I can 

 easily get a bag of ducks or birds that re- 

 semble the quails and prairie chickens of 

 the States. Storks, flamingoes, geese, gulls, 

 hawks, owls and terns fill the air at times. 

 After many hunts in the States when I 

 would not get one shot a day, this country 

 seems a paradise. The natives of the in- 

 terior generally use bolas in hunting. The 

 bolas are simply 2 or 3 balls of lead, each 

 weighing several ounces, fastened together 



with a rawhide thong. I have seen birds 

 caught on the wing with them. From 

 horseback the natives get ostriches, guan- 

 acos and llamas. These llamas are not un-' 

 like our antelope in size and habits. One 

 can spend weeks in the pampas and see new 

 birds or animals daily. The natives are 

 too lazy to kill more than they need. The 

 best outfit for general hunting consists of 

 a shot gun and a good revolver. I have 

 carried a .45 caliber Colt Army and find 

 it all that can be wished for. I should like 

 to read comments on the long range accu- 

 racy of the .38 Colt automatic. 



H. J. Angle, 

 Pehuajo, Argentine Republic. 



145 DUCKS AT 8 SHOTS. 

 The Toms River, N. J., Courier of Janu- 

 ary 1, 1903, contained the following: 



Forman Clayton and his 2 sons, with Mr. An- 

 draise, killed 145 ducks in 8 shots Monday, 115 

 crow ducks and 30 redheads. The ducks were 

 in an air hole in the ice, and all 4 gunners shot 

 at once. 



I wrote Forman Clayton as follows : 



I am informed you and your 2 sons re- 

 cently killed 145 ducks, 115 crows and 30 

 redheads, in one day. Will you kindly tell 

 me if this report is true? 



To this letter I received the following 

 reply, signed by Capt. F. E. Clayton : 



It is true we killed 145 ducks at one 

 round, that is, one shot. I gave away all 

 the wounded ones or we would have had 

 200. Plenty of men saw me kill them and 

 helped pick them up. We came to the 

 house, got horse and wagon and had the 

 ducks at the house before breakfast. 



I think you are a liar, but, if your story 

 is true, you are a low, contemptible brute. — 

 Editor. 



DID NOT MOVE WHEN HIT. 

 A. B. Clayton wonders if other readers 

 of Recreation ever wounded a deer or 

 moose mortally and had it stand motion- 

 less as if untouched. Five years ago last 

 winter I was hunting on the East side of 

 Columbia river, in Onion Creek basin, a 

 few miles South of the British line. One 

 day I was coming down a high mountain 

 ridge on snowshoes. Reaching a small 

 open space in the heavy timber, I saw a 

 deer feeding in some bushes. The deer 

 saw me at the same time and turned with 

 his side to me. As I expected him to bound 

 away like a flash I fired hurriedly, but he 

 did not move. I reloaded, and, taking a lit- 

 tle more time, fired again. As he remained 

 standing, the distance being only about 100 

 yards and the buck a large whitetail, I 

 thought it strange I could not hit him. I 

 fired a third time, and down he went. The 



