FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



THE VANCOUVER HOG SQUEALS AGAIN. 

 [This letter is printed verbatim et literatim.] 



Vancouver, B. C. 



Editor Recreation: I was more than 

 surprised to see you had grit enough to pub- 

 lish my letter. And now while we have the 

 ball a rolling allow this game hog, as you 

 call me, to roll it once more. I see that I am 

 not alone in calling your attention to the 

 way you are insulting your subscribers. 



I remember when you started Recrea- 

 tion how you begged all sportsmen to sub- 

 scribe so you could make it a success. What 

 did I and hundreds of others do? We sent 

 our dollar. Yes I did more I paid $3 in ad- 

 vance for 3 copies, 2 for my friends and one 

 for myself. What thanks did we get, or are 

 we getting now? You are insulting your 

 best friends. Yes you are killing the goose 

 that laid for you the golden egg. 



You are constantly telling your readers 

 what an immense amount of good you are 

 doing by calling people game and fish hogs. 

 Now let us see. Are you doing any good? 

 With the exception of a few dudish cranks 

 in the East the verdict from the sportsmen 

 at large will, if you investigate, be as I tell 

 you. 



Do you think for one moment that I or 

 any of your 300,000 readers would ever 

 think of Recreation, of you or any of your 

 insulting remarks when they are in the 

 woods after game, or at a trout stream after 

 trout? Do you think there is one man 

 among your 300,000 who while out shoot- 

 ing ducks or other game would stop shoot- 

 ing at noon, unload his gun, call his dog 

 and put him under chain while the ducks are 

 flying plentiful and within easy range, simply 

 because you and your magazine tells them 

 " they must not kill but so many ducks each 

 day and if they do they are game hogs " ? 

 Do you think these people while hunting 

 would ever think of you, your magazine or a 

 single word of your fatherly advise? I think 

 not. If they should I will simply say there 

 are more fools throughout the United States 

 and British Columbia than I thought. 



These stay at home sportsmen are the ones 

 who help you make this howl about game 

 hogs. They never go hunting or fishing, 

 and if they should, they might burn a little 

 powder, and this would be about all. I am 

 well acquainted with this class of people. 

 It has been my misfortune to be on certain 

 hunting trips with them and I know what I 

 am talking about. A few years ago I was 

 hunting in the Olympic mountains I ran 

 onto a band of elk one day and counted 62, 

 most of which were not 50 yards away. I 

 had my .45-90 Winchester with chamber filled. 



Did I kill a dozen or more? Did I kill the 

 largest and finest bull? No! I was after 

 meat for camp and picked out a fat calf and 

 broke its neck. 



There were 4 in our camp and this was 

 plenty. Had there been 100 in our camp I 

 would have killed enough for all — perhaps 4 

 or 5. 



Now you call me a game hog, is there a 

 single subscriber among your 300,000 that 

 would have done as I done and allowed 

 the other 61 elk to go their way? I doubt 

 very much if Mr. Shields this great " dicta- 

 tor " would have let this band of elk off so 

 easily. 



Now as for duck, grouse or quail shooting. 

 When I get a day off I go prepaired with 

 plenty of amunition. I go for a days sport 

 and they can not come too fast nor too thick 

 and nothing will stop me unless darkness or 

 out of shells. 



What a foolish game law and what an un- 

 desirable country to live in where they tell 

 you, Now if you go shooting to-day you can 

 kill only 5 ducks, or 5 pheasants, or 10 quail; 

 as soon as you kill this amount you must 

 come home and while on your way home, 

 should a grouse, quail or deer offer you a 

 splendid shot, you must close your eyes and 

 pass by and remember or think of nothing 

 but the game law. 



So Mr. Editor you think I am jeopardiz- 

 ing and am liable to loose my position be- 

 cause I am so successful to find and kill 

 plenty of game? I will lose no sleep on this 

 score. But one thing " Uncle Sam " might 

 do, after granting me a few days leave of ab- 

 sence to go and have a hunt and if I should 

 return empty handed or with a duck or 2 as 

 you say " all true sportsmen should," he 

 might think I am too lazy to hunt, and if a 

 person is lazy in the field he will be lazy in 

 his office, and such people should be asked 

 to send in their resignation. No! Mr. Ed- 

 itor when you go to Washington call over 

 and see " Uncle Sam " at the Treasury De- 

 partment, tell him he has a representative 

 out at Vancouver, B. C, who never goes 

 hunting until the season is open but when 

 he goes, he by means of his hammerless gun, 

 his expert shooting and his fine Gordon 

 setter retriever returns home after a day or 2 

 with more ducks, geese, quail or deer, than 

 he can carry and his friends enjoy them for 

 a week or 2 to follow. 



Kindly Mr. Editor will you tell " Sam- 

 my " about this, tell him that at least he has 

 one game hog in his employe that can shoot 

 and do it fast and quick and when he shoots 

 he shoots to kill and when he kills, he kills 

 them dead and when he counts his game in 

 the evening, he has some to count and plenty 

 to give to his friends. If you will tell him 

 all this, I will bet a half-days salary against 

 your 300.000 subscribers that my salary will 

 be raised, much less shut off. 



This letter is written on Official paper, it 

 perhaps cost our Government not over one 

 cent, better tell him about this and the 



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