FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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If Mr. O. D. Wheeler ever gets in among 

 a large bunch of cow and calf elk he will 

 learn why they say elk whistle; although 

 the old bull's trumpet doesn't sound much 

 like a whistle. 



S. N. Leek, Jackson, Wyo. 



speaks up a tree. Many travelers and 

 Northern visitors can testify as to Ped's 

 prowess as a coon killer. 



J. T. W., St. Louis, Mo. 



An Eastern man who recently went to 

 Southern Oregon blows his horn thus in a 

 report to his home paper: 



" My desire for killing big game grows more and more. 

 Let me tell you no man can come from the East and learn to 

 hunt in a day. It takes a long time to learn how to pack ; 

 where to find game, and then how to shoot it. A party from 

 California had hunted 2 weeks— 6 of them— and o«ly got 8 

 deer. We went by where they were camped. They said 

 there was no game around there. 



"We went on, found grass for our horses, near by, and the 

 next day I killed 8 deer. We stayed there 11 days and got 

 52 deer. One day a doctor came and wanted to go out with 

 me ; so the next morning I went to their camp at 3.30 and 

 said : ' Are you ready ? ' He said he had not had any 

 breakfast yet. I told him, ' Nor I ; come on.' We got 5 deer. 

 I gave him the first shot at all of them, and he killed 2." 



The report comes that this Eastern 

 butcher was murdered, by some native of 

 the country where he was hunting. The 

 settler probably killed him to save the 

 game. If so, who blames the settler? 



Editor. 



We have a woman here who can out- 

 shoot the most of us old hunters, at game, 

 and she will hold her own with all of us in 

 shooting at target. She uses a 40-65 Win- 

 chester, half magazine, 86 model, and han- 

 dles it easily and gracefully. 



She was out hunting 2 days last fall and 

 got 3 white tail deer. She killed 2 and 

 wounded the third, the first day, and went 

 back the second day to get the cripple. 



She dresses and rides like a man. She 

 walks 20 miles a day, on web snow shoes, 

 without being any worse for the trip. Two 

 years ago she killed a bull elk. If her hus- 

 band was as keen a sportsman as she is 

 they would spend all their time in the 

 mountains; but game is pretty safe where 

 he is. This woman can catch fish where 

 the rest of us won't try. 



M. P. Dunham, Lyon, Mont. 



Away down in Newton, Mississippi, 

 there lives an honest colored man named 

 Ped Williams. He is the town butcher and 

 is reliable as to his contracts and engage- 

 ments. He is a famous coon and possum 

 hunter, and has 2 coon dogs that have an 

 entree to his fireside, with his 6 ebony hued 

 chaps. Ped hunts with Jack and Hunter, 

 his 2 dogs, as the coon hunters did in 

 ante bellum days. With a pitch pine torch 

 he leads the party down through the 

 deep pineries into the creek bottoms, with 

 ax on his shoulder. It takes a good walker 

 to keep up with him when Jack or Hunter 



I hoped to have had a deer story to send 

 you, for Recreation, but was disap- 

 pointed. We had no tracking snow here 

 until after the season closed. 



A few years ago deer were as scarce as 

 hens' teeth, but of late they have been com- 

 ing in here. We talked deer hunt all last 

 summer yet I did not get my hunt. The 

 man who was to take us wanted me to go 

 and take the chances on jumping a deer; 

 but I declined, so he went with 2 men 

 who came over from Meadville and they 

 got one deer. My friend Stanley says 

 he can take me now and show me where at 

 least 10 or 12 deer are staying. Only 3 or 4 

 were shot last season so we expect a good 

 hunt next fall. 



F. A. R., South Oil City, Pa. 



A writer in Recreation asks " What 

 game is to be found about Red lake, 

 Minn.?" I can say, from personal knowl- 

 edge, that moose, caribou, deer, bear, lynx, 

 fishes, marten, otter, porcupine (some peo- 

 ple might not call the silver cat game), 

 ruffed and sharp-tail grouse, spruce grouse 

 and water-fowl, can all be found in that 

 region. There are also white fish, wall eyed 

 pike, pickerel, suckers, bullheads and Chip- 

 pewa Indians. 



It must be remembered, however, that it 

 is unlawful to kill moose and caribou un- 

 til 1898; also that Red lake is Indian reser- 

 vation, .except the North half of the North 

 lake. 



There is a chance to visit Red lake by 

 steamboat from Thief River falls. Some of 

 the best hunting grounds are about the 

 great marshes and lakes, to the N. W. of 

 Red lake. 



E. L. B., Warren, Minn. 



I have been reading Recreation 18 

 months and think it the best of its class. It 

 .gives more information than any book 

 printed, in the game line. 



Should like to be able to send you some 

 game notes but am in a locality where the 

 game hog has been, and ihe game had to 

 give way. If the game laws are not en- 

 forced, to the letter, game will be extinct 

 everywhere in a few years. James Steph- 

 ens, of whom you speak in your March 

 number, for instance. Poor hog! Did any- 

 one say hog? Yes; hog with eyes of the 

 asp, brains of the ant, and hands dealing 

 death strokes. I agree with you that his 

 funeral should have been celebrated the 

 same day, but before he had a chance at 

 those 26 antelope. 



H. A. H., Goshen, Ind. 



