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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 4, 1911. 
The Result of Over a Century’s Experience 
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Two of these brands that are in high favor among shooters are 
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Unlike other powders of light recoil, Schultze Loaded just as easily as B]ack Powder. “The 
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UNEQUALED FOR FIELD AND TRAP-SHOOTING 
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ESTABLISHED 1802 
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game-shooting seems to be still at the low ebb 
which must precede its full and free flow into 
the conditions obtaining all over Great Britain, 
where the wealthy sportsman can obtain all that 
he wants so long as he pays for it handsomely. 
Only to a very partial extent as yet is game¬ 
preserving in a large way (after that on our 
British model estates) being attempted in the 
United States by bands of sportsmen at great 
outlay. 
Game preservation, of course, will grow in 
America as shooting becomes recognized as a 
valuable right, but as yet it is in its infancy, 
hampered by ill-informed public opinion and 
irritating State legislation, framed to give the 
poor shooter equal rights with his wealthier 
brother sportsman—rights which the latter is 
compelled to consider and observe whether he 
likes it or not. 
Years hence, no doubt, game preservation 
will have brought American sport with gun and 
rifle to a much higher standard; but meanwhile 
the keen shooter suffers from the transition state 
of the game laws drawn up possibly in all good 
faith by legislators, groping in the dark for the 
greatest good of the greatest number; and thus 
he crosses the Atlantic to obtain sport where 
the rule is observed that “he who pays the piper 
calis the tune.” 
Can it be wondered at that wealthy American 
sportsmen, wedded to sport of the best descrip¬ 
tion, prefer to get it, even at a large outlay, in 
a country where large bags of game are not re¬ 
garded as being made at public loss and in de¬ 
fiance of public opinion? They find our game 
laws and the preservation of our game in a 
condition that they cannot expect for years 
to come in a new country like America, and 
they are 'willing to come over every year and 
pay large rentals to British landlords for the 
purchase of privileges they cannot really ob¬ 
tain at any price in their own country. They 
are quite ready to pay for their sport, and 
would prefer to enjoy it in their own country, 
if they could do so without harassing restric¬ 
tions that curtail their bags and confer no bene¬ 
fit on the game. 
That is why we are having American sports¬ 
men in increasing numbers taking leases of the 
best of our British shooting quarters, and it 
would seem to us as probable that the influx 
from America will steadily increase as years roll 
on until a vast change comes in American 
opinion and American law, so that both conform 
to a great degree with those of Great Britain. 
That day will surely come in America; but it is 
not yet, and until it comes Americans will, it 
is thought, continue to enhance the value of 
British shootings of the best description, as 
they are now doing year after year. 
MOOSE HUNTING ETHICS. 
When Uncle Ned Buckshaw, of Nova Scotia, 
was down at the Sportsmen's Show lie met a 
fellow who was up against it in a conscience way. 
One of the things in life he was looking for¬ 
ward to was a moose hunt, especially the calling 
part of it, but he had been talking with some 
member of the Camp Kit Club and had been 
told that calling moose was dreadfully unsports¬ 
manlike and ought not to be tolerated because a 
bull moose at that time of year is totally blinded 
by passion and just rushes right out to be shot, 
and the club did not give any honor for calling, 
but only for fair and square stalking. 
Uncle Ned calmed him down a bit and then 
said: “I suppose they mean still-hunting is all 
right and to be proud of?” 
“Yes,” said the would-be moose slayer. 
“And that it’s sportsmanlike and fair to hunt 
with a repeater a poor beast that can't get back 
at the hunter?” 
“I suppose so.” 
“And it’s a fine and meritorious thing to sneak 
up on a moose when he’s likely lying down 
chewing his cud and not suspecting anything 
under cover of a big wind that drowns all foot¬ 
steps and other noise you going to windward 
and then shoot him down in cold blood?” 
“That’s what they say.” 
“Well,” said Uncle Ned with emphasis, “then 
you go and tell those chaps there’s something 
wrong with either their morals or their knowl¬ 
edge of moose. If they say it isn’t right to kill 
any beast in the breeding season, then they’re 
right; if they think nobody ought to kill any¬ 
thing, they have a right to their opinion, too, if 
they act up to their belief. But when they drool 
along about being fair to the beasts while using 
a modern repeater on them, they are simply un¬ 
fair themselves and are indulging in cant. 
“If they are honest they will have to acknowl¬ 
edge that there can be no question of actual 
fairness in hunting, any more than there is in 
our treatment in enslaving domestic animals, but 
that we indulge in hunting because, though it 
has unpleasant features, everything that leads up 
to it and everything about it except the actual 
killing is wholesome and enjoyable. 
“But when again (hey tell you that stalking 
a moose is right, while calling him is not, they 
show that they are askew somewhere in their 
ideas. In the first place about that ‘being blinded 
by passion’ they are dead wrong. Of course the 
bull is eager to meet his lady love all right, but 
so far from being blinded by his instinct h ? is 
never at any time of year so completely on his 
guard as he is in the mating season. No man 
who doesn't know that has a right to say a word 
on the subject of moose. 
“If the bull were thus blinded, as the senti¬ 
mentalists would have us believe, why does. he 
not rush right out to meet his mate? . Possibly 
these people think he does. That is wrong 
again. Even when a real cow is calling, with 
no hunter within ten miles, the bull will not come 
running out into the open if there is the slightest 
air stirring, but he carefully circles until he gets 
