FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



477 



Fire away at the game hogs; give it to 

 them from your full choke barrel, for they 

 deserve no mercy. Our shooting season 

 closed December 15th, and we have thou- 

 sands of quails, rabbits and grouse left to 

 breed next season. The game laws are 

 generally respected here and I have failed 

 to note a single case of hoggishness among 

 our shooters. I have been hunting foxes 

 several times lately and succeeded in bag- 

 ging 6. Give me a good man to help and 

 plenty of snow and I'll rid any township 

 of foxes in 2 or 3 weeks. 



J. T. Maris, Portersville, O. 



I am just back from a 3 weeks' hunt in 

 North Carolina. I saw the advertisement of 

 the Brant and chartered her, organizing a 

 party for a shore hunt on Pamlico sound. 

 We went over to Wilmington and Onslow 

 county, where we had some success with 

 deer and small game. There were 9 in our 

 party and each night I read to them an ar- 

 ticle from Recreation. I was the only 

 subscriber in the number. At the close of 

 the trip they all wanted to subscribe, and 

 I send their names herewith. 



Rev. M. B. Williams, Normal, 111. 



The sportsmen of Connecticut are try- 

 ing to get a law passed to stop the killing 

 of all game for 3 years. They say the game 

 will be exterminated if it is not protected 

 soon. If such a law is passed, at the end of 

 the 3 years there will be so many hunters in 

 the woods that in one month's time there 

 will not be a live thing left. If we wish to 

 save the game we have got to do away with 

 the market hunter, for the trouble lies at his 

 door. If we can stop the sale of game we 

 will have all the protection we want. 



H. M. Brown, Gaylordsville, Conn. 



We were on the summit of the Cascades 

 where the Great Northern R. R. was driving 

 a 2^ mile tunnel through the mountain to 

 avoid the switch back over Stevens Pass. 

 We had fine trout fishing in the small 

 streams. In August 2 men walked to the 

 head of Mill creek, fished down that stream 

 to where it crosses the R. R. and got back 

 the same day with 663 trout. Three men 

 caught in i l / 2 days' fishing on Pine creek, 

 90 pounds of trout. Speaking of fish hogs, 

 they have the regular old razor back variety 

 there. F. C. B. 



HIS HEAD IS LEVEL. 



I advise all sportsmen who have too great a desire to 

 shoot and destroy to subscribe for Recreation, which is 

 for sale at Argyle by Postmaster Nelson. Its object is to 

 work for the enforcement of the game laws : but if you 

 read the magazine a while I am sure you will see things 

 differently. Instead of destroying merely, you will begin 

 to admire the great and beautiful in nature, and hunting 

 with a camera will then be just as fascinating as hunting 

 with a rifle. Recreation tells all about hunting in an in- 

 teresting and exhaustive manner, and is valuable for every- 

 one who is fond of hunting, fishing and other sports. 

 Recreation will help to make you real sportsmen.— 

 Argyle, Minn., Banner. 



Your criticism of " Some more Illinois 

 Shoats," in October Recreation meets 

 with our approval. No true sportsman will 

 mangle the flesh of wild animals with bul- 

 lets and shot, nor jag the mouths of fish 

 with hooks merely for " sport." Those 

 who waste game and fish would as well 

 burn their neighbor's food supply or rob 

 his barn or kitchen. And those who kill 

 " for fun " are far worse than hogs. 



Carson Brothers, Frostproof, Fla. 



Game Commissioner Swan declared emphatically, while 

 visiting at Glenwood Springs, that he will allow the Indians 

 and non-resident tourists to kill all the game they want, in 

 Rio Blanco county next fall, if the settlers do not obey the 

 law as to the closed season ; or, rather, if the courts and 

 juries here do not convict everyone whom he arrests. Mr. 

 Swan did not state under what section of the statutes he 

 had the right to make discriminations, although he claims 

 to be well posted. The governor should call him off. — 

 Meeker, Colo., Herald. 



Will Commissioner Swan kindly tell us 

 by what authority he can permit any one 

 class of people to violate the game laws? — 

 Editor. 



Chickens, jack rabbits, coyotes, hawks 

 and quails are abundant here. I am inter- 

 ested in the rifle controversy. I think the 

 men who say they would hunt bear with a 

 .25 or .30 caliber rifle are bravest on paper. 

 When I hunt bear with a small bore I will 

 see that the bear is in a 40 pound trap be- 

 fore I fire. I am the owner of 8 Winchester 

 rifles and one shotgun and think life is 

 worth living. 



Walter Nellis, York, Neb. 



Big game is being slaughtered this win- 

 ter in the foothills, an extra heavy snow- 

 fall driving it down against the muzzles of 

 the guns held by men who could not get it 

 under any other conditions, unless it was 

 sick. The L. A. S. is doing well here and 

 gaining strength. 



H. Morrison, Summit, Mont. 



I was in the Adirondacks last fall and 

 shot a 6 point buck. The guides said it had 

 the finest set of horns ever seen in that sec- 

 tion. There is not much game here, but a 

 friend went out the other day and bagged 

 3 coons before dinner. One measured 45^2 

 inches from tip to tip. I am a small bore 

 crank and think the .30 is all right. 



E. C. Jackson, Schenectady, N. Y. 



I am surprised at some of your corre- 

 spondents, who. without a blush of shame, 

 tell of killing does. In California it is against 

 the law to kill does or fawns at any time. 

 Among sportsmen and people who live in 

 the mountains, it is considered unsports- 

 manlike and a disgrace, and anyone guilty 

 of such an act would be relegated to Recre- 

 ation'? pig pen. 



R. McMurtry, Pennington, Cal. 



