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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 6, 1884. 
{ VOL. XXIII.—No, 15. 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL, _ SEA AND River FisHinG. 
Game Legislation. Echoes from the Tournament, 
Side Hunts. Small Flies. 
Adirondack Deer Hounding, FISHCULTURE. 
Few or Many. The American Fisheultural As- 
Smaill-Bores. sociation. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Some Results of Fisheulture. 
A Night with the Navajos. THE NNEL. 
A Voyage Between the Lakes. The Black Setter, 
Florida Again.—y. 
English Kennel Notes.—xvul. 
NaturAu Hisrory. 
The Mastiff Puppies. 
Swainson’s Warbler Redis- The Boarhound Group. 
coyered. The Kennel Hospital. 
The Black Bear. Kennel Notes. 
Snake-Bites. .| RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
The Bear’s Pot. Range and Gallery. 
“The Auk,” The Trap. 
Game Baa AnD Gun. CANOEING. 
My First Antelope Hunt, 
The First Deer. 
Philadelphia Notes. 
Adirondack Game Protection. 
Maine Large Game, 
Maryland Game. 
A New Club House. 
Bullet vs. Buckshot, 
SEA AND River FIsHine. 
Salmon Fishing on Puget Sound, 
The Galley Fire. 
Venison and Bear. 
The Log Book. 
The Delaware River. 
YACHTING. 
The Season Coiled Away. 
Small Cruising Boats. 
The Penguin in the Fall Races. 
Cruise of the Kara. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
FHW OR MANY. 
Ny EN, Gin the Game Baez and Gun columns of this 
paper the other day, a New Hampshire man expressed. 
his hope of securing 300 ruffed grouse in the current season. 
Reading this, a correspondent in Western New York writes 
to say that 300 grouse in one season are an outrageous num- 
ber for one man to kill, that our New Hampshire correspond- 
ent is, in respect to game, not a whit better than he ought 
to be, and that five grouse in one season ought to content any 
man who is not a pot-hunter. 
There is some difference between the two limits set by 
these writers, They look at the question from different 
standpoints, each one reasoning from the circumstances which 
are within his own experience. 
In the favored part of the world where the New Hamp- 
shire man lives grouse are presumably abundant. The sea- 
son extends from Sept. 1 to Feb. 1. This individual in ques- 
tion has a well-trained dog, and is at liberty to (and as a matter 
of fact we believe does) spend most of his time grouse shoot-. 
ing. He has the reputation of being one of the best shots 
in the country, and since he has put innumerable days 
work into the difficult labors of circumventing the crafty 
grouse, he may be given credit for possessing much skill 
in this particular phase of sport; and finally it would be 
quite erroneous to presume that any one of ihe birds was 
obtained in any other than asportsmanlike manner. - With 
favorable conditions—plenty of birds, abundance of time, 
experience and skill—the New Hampshire man regards a 
score of 800 birds as fair for himself, 
On the other hand, the correspondent in Western New 
York presumably dwells in a less favored region, where the 
grouse drums less. frequently; and it is possible, also, that 
he cannot spend all the week in the grouse covers. He is 
one of the great majority of men who can now and then 
snatch a day from their work to go shooting, or at the most, 
can take a week off. Half of this week is sometimes spent 
in going to and coming from the region where the grouse 
are supposed to be; and if, in the remaining time and after 
much tramping, five or six birds are secured, the gunner is’ 
amply repaid and perfectly happy. To men so situated a 
peason’s score of five is quite the correct thing. They work 
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hard for these, see few birds, every year become more firmly 
convinced that grouse are scarce, and look invidiously upon 
other folks who score their dead birds by the hundreds, 
Now which is the right, the New Hampshire man or the 
New York man? 
ADIRONDACK DEER HOUNDING, 
\ HAT is Adirondack deer hounding? How is it done? 
Who does it? Is hounding a legitimate way to kill 
deer in the Adirondacks? Is it more destructive than still- 
hunting? Is it sportsmanlike and ennobling, or is it brutal 
and brutalizing? Ought it to be abolished? Can it be 
abolished? Will it be abolished? 
These are timely questions. They ought all to be an- 
swered, and answered now. We propose to throw some 
light on them. 
SMALL-BORES. 
UNS of small bore are coming into favor. A circum- 
stance was brought to our notice the other day, which 
may be'taken as showing that the demand. for small-bore 
guns of a certain character exceeds the supply, A country 
dealer wanted six 20-gauge guns, of moderate price. He 
could not find them in New York city. 
The change of fashion—as far as it is a change—is not set 
by the dealers themselves. Given a price, the maker would 
prefer to furnish for it a large-bore gun. The raw material 
for the two guns, one large-bore and the other small-bore, 
costs practically the same. To make the smaller requires 
more skill and care; it is a more delicate task than to make 
a gun of the larger bore. As arule, the grades’ being equal, 
to make the smaller. gun, costs the more. 
There is much to be said in favor of small-bore guns; and 
the tendency of the day is toward them. They are lighter, 
and weight is an important consideration, especially in the 
last part of the day’s tramp, Once let the man who has been 
used to lugging around nine or ten pounds. of gun, find out 
that he can do just as good work with ‘a weapon weighing 
from five to seven pounds, and the chances are that, his com- 
mon sense and skill as\a shot being rightly proportioned, he 
will choose the smaller bore and the lighter weight. Add to 
this the satisfaction that comes with the use of finer tools, 
The shooter who brings down his game with a small-bore 
gun isin yery nearly the same position ‘as the angler who 
catches his fish with delicate tackle. A. small-bore will not 
scatter so broadly as a large gun; more skill is required to 
hold on; but its penetration is practically the same; and the 
two will kill at equal distances. 
There is a growing: sentiment among expert shots that he 
is a little more of a sportsman who uses a small-bore gun 
than his companion who is armed with the larger gauge. 
Some men, indeed, have made the mistake of going to the 
extreme of small-bores. For ordinary work the gauges from 
sixteen to twenty, and weighing from five pounds to seyen 
pounds, will prove satisfactory. 
SIDE-HUNTS. 
HE side-hunt is not so common to-day as it was long ago. 
In old times the settlers and pioneers gathered their 
forces for a combined attack upon the bears and wildeats 
and wolves and foxes. The side-hunt was gotten up on the 
principle of the logging bees and haying bees. After the 
large game was pretty well thinned out, came the side-hunts 
for sport. These were known in New England as. ‘squirrel 
hunts.” Two captains were appointed, flipped up a cent for 
choice, selected their sides. Squirrels were the only game 
shot. Then, perhaps because the squirrel supply gave out, 
the side-hunters began to shoot other game. To-day, when 
game of all kinds is comparatively scarce, almost everything 
that has fur or feathers.is made to count in the score. 
There is much difference of opinion about whether a side- 
hunt is a legitimate form of sport or not. The objections 
urged against the practice are principally based on the fact 
that, in their eagerness to secure a big score, the competitors 
shoot many birds that ought not to be shot at all, and shoot 
more game birds than there is any excuse for. It is urged 
that a side-hunt is only in principle and practice an organ- 
ized wholesale slaughter; that the woods are scoured by a 
horde of gunners, eager to kill every live thing that comes in 
their way; that, carried away by the spirit of thething, even 
the conscientious sportsman blazes away wntiringly, until he 
has gone far beyond the bounds of hisown usual practice 
and of decency itself. And it is moreover objected that, as 
a result of these side-hunts, game is wantonly slaughtered 
' and diminished, the game-protecting professions of the clubs 
participating brought into discredit, and the public senti- 
ment seriously lowered. 
Those who defend the practice claim that a side-hunt, 
where fifty or a hundred gunners participate, is only in effect 
equivalent to these men going out shooting on different days 
and separately; that though much game is killed, the pro- 
portion killed by each man is not so great, and that the total 
appears inordinately large only because it is a total. 
It may, perhaps, be most truly said that some side-hunts 
are legitimate and others are not; and each one must be ap- 
proved or condemned by itself, according to its character 
Sometimes, for instance, in fixing the credit or value to be 
attached to the several kinds of game brought in, a large 
credit is given to birds of prey, skunks, foxes, ete., while 
the game birds proper, as quail and grouse, count'very little, 
and the insectivorous and song birds have no value at all, 
Tn this way a side-hunt is actually beneficial, so far as game 
protection is concerned. It is also equally plain that a side- 
hunt, in which the competitors are urged to kill all the quail 
or grouse they can, if not directly censurable for its de- 
structiveness, is at least not likely to elevate the participants’ 
field ethics. 
GAME LEGISLATION. 
T is well understood that the game law amendment will 
make its appearance at the next session of the State 
Legislatures. There will be urged a variety of changes by 
a variety of influences and for a variety of purposes. The 
man who makes a pretense of being a sportsman, but whose 
pockets are bulged with the marketman’s money, will be 
there. The man who wants to make the entire State revolve 
around the stump in the hollow out back of his house will 
be there. The man who can get away to shoot only in July, 
and wants that month in the open season, will be there. 
The man who thinks that the way to make a dead letter law 
a live one is to change its wording will be there, And, it is 
very possible, the man who really has a sensible and desery- 
ing amendment to urge will be there. Would it not be well 
for sportsmen’s clubs to take time by the forelock, and pro- 
vide for the discomfiture of the interested game-law tinkers 
and for the support of the amendments (Gif there are any) 
that deserve fo be supported? 
This is a hint which it may be worth while to adopt. 
Tun Mraratory QuatL,—Some years ago a great deal of 
attention and some hundreds of dollars were given to the 
importation into this country of the European migratory 
quail. A number of clubs joined in the enterprise. Thous- 
ands of birds were brought over and distributed in different 
parts of the Eastern and Middle States. A few meagre and 
unsatisfactory reports were heard of their subsequent where- 
abouts, and then all information about them suddenly 
ceased, They may have increased and multiplied and 
migrated, but their abiding place is known of no man 
to this day. The individuals and clubs who brought 
over these birds are not very well satisfied with the 
results so far obtained, and in fact are so much discouraged, 
that they have given up all hope of ever seeing or hearing of 
ihe game again. A recent announcement in these columus 
that more quail could be.had failed 1o excite much interest. 
Has any one recently seen any of these birds? Jntelligence 
of them would be welcome. While the migratory quail ex- 
periment, failed so completely, other similar enterprises to 
transplant our own American bird, ‘‘Bob White,” have been 
very successful. Many depleted covers have been restocked 
and the shooting restored. The results of endeavors have 
not been uniformally satisfactory, but the average is such as 
to warrant further workin the same direction, Our game 
clubs and associations can engage in no more profitable labor 
to inerease the game supply than this transplanting of the 
quail. 
FLORIDA.—We receive more inquiries about Florida fish- 
ing waters and hunting grounds than about those of any 
other State. If this be accepted as an indication of the in- 
terest taken in that southern winter country, we have 
every reason to believe that our correspondent, ‘‘Al Fresco’s” 
series of papers on Florida will be gladly read. ‘There is no 
writer, either a correspondent of this journal or of any other, 
who has given more full or more useful information to 
sportsmen visiting Florida than ‘‘Al Fresco.” He began 
writing on the subject years ago, and we cannot begin to 
reckon the number of sportsmen who have availed themselves 
of hisinformation. The present series of articles. should be 
read by every man who. proposes to fish or shoot in the 
Florida peninsula this winter. 
