October, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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wild and with a gunny sack handy to 
dump the dead birds in as fast as they 
were killed. The sack was the score 
card and tally sheet. When full it was 
time to quit and by the time he got 
home the first birds killed were apt to 
be spoiled and unfit for use. The others 
were sorted over, all the young birds 
kept for home use, and as for the re- 
mainder, I hate to say what became of 
them. 
I remember a long stretch of prairie 
about forty miles wide which was virgin 
soil, untouched by plow, where every 
tuft of grass held a chicken and every 
clump a covey with grasshoppers enough 
for all. As the sun grew low these 
birds in one vast army started their 
march for fields of unhusked corn or the 
wheat stubbles that had not been thor- 
oughly gleaned. Of course there were 
not so many of these fields then as now, 
but there were some and a gunner could 
shoot in and around such a field until 
his gun got hot, was cooled and got hot 
again. 
We taught the farmers not only how 
to load and how to save their game, but 
also the value of grouse as insect de- 
stroyers and seed eaters. We could not, 
however, prevent them from draining 
the land or from plowing under the nest- 
ing places of the birds. Also we could 
not prevent fire from sweeping through 
that great stretch of prairie land when 
the grass was dry. One night four of 
us worked until dawn fighting fire to 
save a homesteader’s house, barn, 
stables, hay and stock, only to be told 
in the morning when, as a matter of 
form, we asked for our bill : “You fel- 
lers have seen a fine show that city 
chaps don’t often get a chance to look 
at, but I’ll only charge you six dollars, 
which will also cover the hay your 
horses have eaten,” and yet we saved 
for him about everything he had. 
A fire of this kind will eat up grouse 
and rabbits by the thousand, and there 
was no help for it ; but after the fire 
came the golden plover in great flocks, 
prairie pigeons, the natives called them, 
and fed over the burning. These were 
excessively shy and could only be ap- 
proached in a wagon or on horseback 
and then they had to be circled, not 
driven directly upon, but often if a long 
shot was chanced and several plover 
winged the flock would decoy to the 
cripples and many be killed. 
They were fine birds for the table, 
as good as jacksnipe, and to my mind 
better than prairie chickens. 
/'"'HICKENS now are very scarce in 
these parts, but reasonably abun- 
dant farther north in the country we 
were told to keep away from because 
they had not come in yet. 
Are not the shooters of to-day as bad 
as those of forty years ago? It seems 
to me that the bag limits are all too 
large now. The ratio of what is per- 
mitted now is larger when compared to 
the visible Supply than the no-limit b^gs 
of 1880. There is too much of a desire 
to keep on killing fintil the last bird that 
the law permits is bagged, and there are 
not enough game refuges which are do- 
ing more to help save the game than any 
one thing I know of. 
The New 
Remin gton. 
20 Gauge Shot Gun 
T HE old controversy among: sportsmen over 
the 20 gauge pump gun is now settled by the 
New Remington Model 17 — the 20 gauge 
pump that shoots a man’s size load. 
The latest masterpiece of Browning, the world 
famous gun designer. Chambered to shoot 2% 
inch shells with heavy load for ducks and geese. 
Takes the 2^2 inch standard shells for birds and 
upland game equally as well. 
Smooth Action— Quick Shooting 
Take this gun in your hands and see if you don’t 
say its action is the smoothest you ever tried. The 
only 20 gauge with bottom ejection. 
An all around gun. The hunter can instantly 
change from a 26 inch barrel to a 28 inch, 30 inch 
or 32 inch barrel, or from cylinder bore to modi- 
fied or full choke. Takes down with no tools but 
the fingers. Just the gun for an all day hunt — 
light, fast pointing, strong shooting, safe. 
The New .30 Caliber 
Remington. 
High Power Bolt Action Rifle 
For big game hunters who prefer the bolt action, and for ex-service men accustomed to 
the Army service rifle. Remington announces the New .30 Caliber High Power Bolt 
Action Sporting Rifle. 
Bolt and Action of same design as M odel_ 1917 Army Rifle. Designed specially to 
shoot the powerful .30 Caliber 1906 Springfield Cartridge. Shoots any cartridge listed 
for use in the U. S. Army Rifle. 
Tried out on grizzlies, moose, mountain sheep and deer by prominent big game hunters 
who highly recommend the Remington .30 caliber cartridge with the New Bronze 
Pointed Expanding Bullet developed particularly for this rifle. 
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There is a Remington dealer near you who will be glad to show you these two New 
Remingtons or order them for you-the New Model 17, 20 gauge pump gun and the 
New Model 30, .30 Caliber High Power Bolt Action Sporting Rifle. 
The New 
.30 Caliber Bolt Action 
Remington. 
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