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movement his knee struck the hammer, released 

 it, and the weapon was discharged. The full 

 charge went through the fleshy portion of his left 

 hand, between the thumb and index finger, and 

 passed within 2 inches of his head. — Great Falls 

 Tribune. 



What could this man have been hunting? 

 Too bad the charge did not go closer to 

 his head. Hunting out of season I regard 

 as worse than being a game hog. 



C. S., Great Falls, Mont. 



I was interested in Mr. Smith's inquiry 

 in regard to boots. I bought a pair of 

 leather boots, the kind that lace up the 

 front and side, and had a shoemaker put 

 tops on so as to make them hip boots. 

 They have been in use 2 years without 

 leaking, and I believe they will last an- 

 other 2 years. I have used them for both 

 hunting and fishing, going in water clean 

 to the tops hours at a time, but have kept 

 my feet perfectly dry. They are far su- 

 perior to rubber boots, as they do not 

 gall or sweat the feet. Of course, one must 

 take good care of them. I rub mine over 

 with melted lard every time I come home, 

 and they are always soft as kid. 



R. W. L. Baco, Chicago, 111. 



I am back in the mountains 25 miles 

 East of Butte, the great copper camp. 

 Within sound of Butte's whistles are plenty 

 of bears, deer, mountain lions, lynxes and 

 moose. Even thus near civilization are 

 jungles equal to any found in Africa and 

 where man has never set foot. I have 

 traveled over many parts of the Rockies 

 and have never seen any place so weird and 

 so seldom visited by man. I fan on to 2 large 

 lynxes last February and killed both at 

 close range with my Savage .303, fitted 

 with a 20-power telescope: That is the 

 only thing for me, as my sight is failing 

 from long continued underground mining. 

 H. J. Humphrey, Boulder, Mont. 



We notice how you roast the game hogs 

 in Recreation. We think a man has a 

 right to kill as much game as he pleases. 

 One day last December we killed 193 ducks 

 in 5 hours ; mostly big ducks. There are no 

 bristles growing on us, either, that we can 

 see. 



J. R. Casey, 



D. J. Hogan, 



P. C. Dunn, 



Ashland Ore. 



I think you are all liars. I would not 

 believe a man under oath who would make 

 such a statement 'as yours. — Editor. 



I disagree with Dr. S. B. Keith, who says 

 Massachusetts game was never so scarce as 

 at present. Ruffed grouse, quails, rabbits 

 and hares are more numerous than for 



years. I never before heard of a man's 

 hunting foxes with a fox terrier. Hunters 

 here who have good dogs are lucky to get 

 one fox a week ; some get no more than 

 one each season. We are not all doctors 

 or lawyers. I wonder Dr. Keith does not 

 hunt foxes himself if they are so abundant 

 about Palmer. 

 F. W. Stephenson, New Bedford, Mass. 



Annihilation threatens one of our most 

 attractive woodland creatures, the squirrel. 

 Since the use of his fur has. become so 

 general in our country, hundreds and thou- 

 sands of these little fellows have been 

 slaughtered that would not otherwise have 

 been molested. We should do all we can 

 to discourage the use of this fur as an 

 article of merchandise. 



Jacob A. S. Roger, Dayton, O. 



Here is a claim from the game haunts 

 of Northern Michigan, where I killed a 

 buck last fall that was cousin to the mule 

 deer. Its ear measure 5 inches wide and 7 

 inches long. Can any one beat this for a 

 Michigan deer? I have the head mounted. 

 A. A. Hathaway, Alba, Mich. 



R. L. writes Recreation that game is 

 scarce on the Montana range, whereas the 

 fact is that it is more abundant than he 

 claims. Assiniboia is fairly well stocked 

 with game of all kinds, although game hogs 

 are numerous there, too. 



S. E. Sangster, Port Perry, Ont. 



Have you a good place to put your gun 

 when you are not using it? If you have 

 not, why not get one? If you have, why 

 not get a still better one? Nothing could 

 be more suitable or attractive for holding 

 a gun than the little rack, made of buffalo 

 horns, which I offer as premium for 5 

 yearly subscriptions to Recreation. The 

 buffalo horns are souvenirs of a most in- 

 teresting animal now extinct except in pri- 

 vate preserves, and when the rack is on the 

 wall it makes of the- gun a handsome deco- 

 ration, instead of a nuisance in the house. 

 Send me 5 subscriptions and earn one of 

 these gun racks. 



Recreation is the only true sportsmen's 

 journal in the country, and in thanking 

 you for the stand you have taken against 

 game hogs, I know I am voicing the senti- 

 ment of all true sportsmen. May the good 

 work go on until the hogs' bristles are all 

 worn off with the friction of sound sense. 

 W. F. DeMorest, Leslie, Mich. 



Recreation is my book of faith and my 

 guide in the woods and fields. 



A. S. Trude, Chicago, 111. 



