March, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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legislation two or three points should be 
emphasized. All plans or suggestions 
that I have heard mentioned for changes 
in Alaska game laws contain the idea of 
one law to regulate uniformly the killing 
of game throughout the whole country. 
Recognizing the absurdity of such ideas 
it is no wonder that Alaskans ridicule 
the suggestions of outsiders. Alaska is 
one-fifth the size of the United States, 
and owing to difficulties of travel in the 
country the distances between points are 
in time very much greater. The game 
in many widely separated areas is as un- 
related as are the deer of Maine to those 
of California. It would be as unreason- 
able to make a single law uniformly reg- 
ulating the killing of game in the differ- 
ent game regions of Alaska as it would 
be to have such a single law for all the 
New England and Middle Atlantic States 
together, or for Colorado, Montana, Cali- 
fornia, Washington and Arizona to-' 
gether. What is needed are different regu- 
lations for the various independent game 
sections adapted to the special game con- 
ditions of each, independently of the 
others. Sportsmen seldom or never visit 
some of the remote regions or those diffi- 
cult of access. Some of these regions 
contain a population consisting only of 
a few Indians, who kill only the small 
quantity of game they need for food. 
Every encouragement should be given to 
attract sportsmen to such areas and here 
there is no reason at all why the bag lim- 
its, on some animals, should not be larger 
than in the easily accessible regions 
commonly visited by sportsmen. 
Any law needs a provision which will 
render it so flexible that restrictions can 
immediately be placed on the killing of 
animals in any area where the needed 
surplus of game may be threatened with 
reduction. This is exactly what we have 
in the present law. At the requests of 
the Alaska people themselves the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture has again and again 
quickly issued regulations to restrict or 
prevent the killing of game in various 
sections of the country. If the law had 
been rigid, like most game laws in the 
States, not possible to change except by 
the slow process of Congressional action, 
the game would by now have been ex- 
terminated from certain sections of the 
country. 
Therefore, maximum bag limits should 
be adjusted to different game regions, 
greater or less according to the kinds of 
animals and their abundance in each 
area, and to the chances of the numbers 
of sportsmen likely to penetrate them. 
The population, both white and Indian, 
should be considered. Tlien at any time 
if necessary, bag limits can be quickly 
reduced or close seasons can be estab- 
lished. 
O NLY by such methods of regulation 
can the great game resources of 
Alaska be developed to be of 
maximum benefit to the country. There 
are several other vital points in a proper 
game law which I have not space to dis- 
cuss. It should be perfectly clear to the 
people of Alaska that, for reasons given, 
all the citizens of this country will take 
an active interest in their game, and that 
this interest will not be limited to any 
section of the States. But it should be 
equally clear to outsiders that in consid- 
ering the game laws of Alaska they must 
first understand the conditions of that 
country, and consider the just material 
interests of the people living there, and 
also their point of view. If they fail to 
do this, the game laws will remain on 
paper without possible enforcement, no 
matter what amount of funds may be ap- 
plied for that purpose, and this is not 
far from the present condition as regards 
the enforcement of the law right now. 
Game laws cannot anywhere or under 
any circumstances be enforced without 
the active co-operation of the people 
whose local interests are affected by 
them. 
I sincerely hope that the time may 
come when a complete co-operative spirit 
may obtain among all those, both Alas- 
kans and outsiders, who are active in 
the matter of properly conserving Alaska 
game. 
SOME POINTS ON 
FLORIDA HUNTING 
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both barrels full choked. The gun to be 
equipped with ejector, single trigger and 
recoil butt pad. 
Many sportsmen do not advocate any 
boring for a “twenty,” giving a pattern 
of less than two hundred shot in a thirty 
inch circle at forty yards, using number 
eight shot. With this I do not agree, for 
in quail shooting the majority of your 
shots will be of from fifteen to twenty 
yards range, and you certainly do not 
need a dense pattern at these ranges. 
The improved cylinder and improved 
modified 1 combination has proved a very 
satisfactory one in my hands, and I 
have no fault to find with it. An even 
pattern is what is primarily needed. 
Jacksnipe and doves usually offer much 
longer shots than quail, and for that 
reason the full choked barrels are better. 
I possess a “twenty,” conforming to the 
foregoing specifications, which, when I 
ordered it, was bored to handle 18 grains 
of dense powder and % ounce of No. 8 
shot. The boring was well done and the 
barrels give a very even pattern, as I 
have found out by conducting a series of 
experiments at various ranges and 
through much use in the field. 
For ducks and turkeys I prefer the 
12-gauge to any other type. I prefer 
30 inch full choked barrels; a 13% inch 
straight gripped stock of 2% inches drop 
at the butt. Such a gun is good medi- 
cine for ducks when using shells with 26 
grains of dense powder and 1% ounces 
of No. 5 chilled shot. For turkeys, it de- 
pends somewhat upon the method of 
hunting to be employed. If you are 
shooting them from the roost, where you 
always shoot at the head, the load just 
named will be all that is necessary, but 
for all other kinds of hunting I prefer 
the same powder load behind a charge of 
No. 4 buckshot — 27 pellets to the charge. 
This load of small buckshot is very ef- 
fective when you are hunting in the cab- 
bage woods — just turkey hunting — and 
are apt to have almost any kind of a shot. 
(To Be Continued.) 
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