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RECREATION. 



will find such a list, with full instructions 

 as to how to use them. Price, $1.25. I can 

 furnish the book. — Editor. 



Your valuable magazine is just out of 

 sight, and I like the way in which you roast 

 the game hogs. I can imagine how they 

 squeal when the hair begins to singe. I 

 was once something of a hog myself, but 

 since reading Recreation I have seen 

 where I was wrong, and I am now trying 

 to get the other boys who go hunting with 

 me to cease the slaughter. Before read- 

 ing Recreation 2 of us used to go out and 

 think nothing of killing 25 or 30 ducks in 

 a day. Now we never kill more than 10 

 apiece. Game is abundant throughout this 

 State- 

 George Smith, Port Townsend, Wash. 



I am much pleased with Recreation. 

 Go after the swine. You talk just right 

 to them. What kind of a pen have you 

 for a man who will kill a 15-point buck 

 and leave it in the woods? That was 

 done here. I wish you would fix it with 

 him. I will mark the item and mail my 

 copy to him. I am one of many here who 

 want to preserve the game. I killed 2 

 bucks and 10 grouse last season, and think 

 that plenty for one man. 



.38-55, Russel, Colo. 



Give me the man's name and then I 

 will go after him. There is no use roast- 

 ing anonymous game butchers. — Editor. 



I am well pleased with Recreation, as' 

 I find something new and interesting in 

 every issue. All kinds of game are scarce 

 here, but I have been lucky enough to 

 kill 2 buck deer, which is the limit for 

 Colorado. I shot one buck at 30 yards^ 

 standing, and the other at 350 yards, run- 

 ning, but as there were 4 in a bunch to 

 aim at it was easy to hit one of them. I 

 killed both with a .38-40 Winchester, model 

 '92, and if any of the big gun hunters 

 thinks a .38-40 is a pop gun he is sadly left. 

 A. E. Fossette, Rosita, Colo. 



I take your superb magazine and 

 wouldn't miss one single copy for 5 single 

 dollars. I used to be a kind of nest rob- 

 ber, but, thanks to Recreation, have re- 

 formed. Last summer I could easily have 

 killed a whole brood of young pigeons 

 hatched m a neighboring wood, but 

 Recreation and self respect forbade me. 

 You are doing a great work in protecting 

 the game and posterity shall call you 

 blessed. 



F. A. O'Brien, Alverno, Wis. 



To protect the game effectively the sale 

 of game must be stopped entirely. I do 



not like the idea of selling the privilege of 

 hunting. It would prevent many men who 

 are poor, yet who are none the less true 

 sportsmen, from having their share of 

 hunting. 



I should like to be placed in communi- 

 cation with some Western ranchman who 

 lives where wolves are numerous and 

 troublesome. 



E. G. Pettil, Marietta, Ohio. 



I am well pleased with your course of 

 treatment of the game hogs. No roast 

 would be punishment enough for some of 

 them. Give it to them all. You are doing a 

 good work; it will produce good results. I 

 am away from home most of the time, but 

 always have Recreation sent to me. I 

 should like to assist in corraling some of 

 the swine around Lake Chelan that have 

 extirminated the game. 



Ed. L. Lindsley, Seattle, Wash. 



We have only one game hog here. 

 Sometimes he goes out with a dog and 

 ferret and brings in 25 or 30 rabbits. We 

 have good game laws, and the wardens 

 usually enforce them, but no one seems 

 to pay any attention to the rabbits, per- 

 haps because there are so many. We have 

 ruffed grouse, gray squirrels, woodcock, 

 foxes and white rabbits, but there must 

 be a law put on grouse and grays or they^ 

 will soon be gone. 



Henry M. Britton, Hinsdale, N. H. 



Two hunters, H. C. Todd and F. W. 

 Benney, hunted 10 days between West 

 Nyack and Haverstraw. They were look- 

 ing for rabbits and could not find any. At 

 a friend's house at West Nyack they were 

 much disgusted at seeing a rabbit shot 

 right at the door by Will Tilford. They 

 had traveled 25 miles vainly looking for 

 what they could have found at home if they 

 had known how. 



Mrs. L. A. Tilford, West Nyack, N. Y. 



It is folly to have game laws that year by 

 year make steady decrease of game by loop- 

 holes for evasion by pot hunters, at the ex- 

 pense of law abiding sportsmen, or because 

 not sufficiently restrictive. We have tried 

 all other so-called sportsmen's magazines, 

 but have discarded the whole lot, because 

 they all fail to take a stand like Recrea- 

 tion. John D. Collins, 

 Sec. Utica Fish and Game Protective As- 

 sociation. 



Shooting was good in this part of the 

 State last fall and winter. The foothills 

 of the Cascade mountains on both sides 

 are covered with dusky grouse, and when 

 one goes there to hunt it makes him sick. 

 At any time during the season one can go 



