April, 1922 
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show his skill, so why carry a gun? If 
a gun is needed and you want to get real 
sport, use a 22 cal. rifle or pistol and give 
the unsuspecting rabbit a chance. If 
you miss and your dog is any good at 
all he will bring the rabbit around again 
and give you another chance, and if you 
should happen to cripple one your dog 
should have no trouble in running him 
down. 
W'itb reference to city hunters keep- 
ing hunting dogs at home, this is almost 
an impossibility. Suppose for instance all 
rabbit hunters kept hound dogs penned 
up in their back yard, think of the an- 
noyance to their neighbors and friends 
living nearby who would be racked with 
midnight serenades of say 10 or 
“bawling” hounds. This condition would 
exist in my neighborhood, as there are 
fully that many hunters. One hound in 
the neighborhood a few months ago was 
enough, and he created .so much dis- 
turbance that it caused him to be sent 
back to the farm, where he could “howl” 
to his heart’s content, and chase rabbits 
till the cows came home. 
I have also noticed that where con- 
siderable hunting with dogs is carried 
on, the rabbits “hole up” and do not come 
out except at night. I have found this 
condition to exist in several sections 
that have quite a few rabbits, but after 
the dogs are brought there prior to the 
opening season the rabbits begin to 
hole up and it takes pretty close hunting 
to get them out. 
I have hunted rabbits and small game 
for quite a few years and I can truth- 
fully say I have found less than half a 
dozen dead rabbits that apparently had 
been wounded and lost by hunters. 
With reference to Brother Easton'.s 
remarks on hunting with guides and kiP- 
ing for trophies, I do net approve of 
wantonly killing and taking trophies 
only, leaving the carcass for wolves, etc., 
but I do not think this is practised so 
much now as formerly when big game 
■was more plentiful. Ilowever, a law 
providing for the proper disposition of 
a large game carcass, or a good part of 
it, should be established and enforced, 
which would keep down the waste to a 
minimum. 
While I am not a big-game hunter, 
never having had the opportunity, I be- 
lieve that next to having a good gun, a 
real guide would be necessary. Without 
proper guides in the wilderness where 
deer, moose, elk, bear, mountain lion, 
etc., are hunted, think what would happen 
to the thousands of hunters who go out 
each year. Some of them are on their 
first hunting trip and many never handled 
a high-power gun before. 
It is all right for the sportsman who 
has been brought up in the big w’oods. 
or who has had actual experience, to go 
forth without a guide. He is fully pre- 
pared to meet all emergencies and knows 
exactly what to do under trying condi- 
tions. He knows how NOT to get lost; 
how to track game ; what to do wdien he 
' finds it ; how to pick good heads and not 
‘ kill a peaceful doe only to let it lay after 
realizing his mistake ; where to hit his 
I game in order to kill it quickly. He 
I knows what to shoot at and is particu- 
I larly careful to note that a fellow^ hunter 
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