FOREST AND STREAM 
166 
GOOD TURKEY SHOOTING. 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan. 15, 1915. 
Editor, Forest and Stream. 
No doubt you have inquiries from readers, or 
beyond question not a few of your readers are 
wondering where in the United States they can 
obtain the best wild turkey shooting. If you will 
look on the map and find El Rito, New Mexico, 
about 61 miles north of Santa Fe, you will see a 
country which I believe to be one of the best 
game regions in the United States. There is 
nothing north of the place named to speak of 
to the Colorado line, except the Carson forest 
reserve, a vast wilderness with the finest turkey 
shooting in the world, plenty of bear, deer, lion 
and other game, while the rivers and adjacent 
streams are splendid for trout fishing. For miles 
east, west and south it is also practically one 
vast wilderness—in fact the center of a great 
game country with a climate unequaled anywhere. 
I know my West fairly and there is nothing 
like this from Canada to Mexico. We have an 
all the year country, while Wyoming, Montana, 
and Idaho are open only a short time winter or 
summer. J. G. W. 
PENNSYLVANIA ELK SHOT. 
Warden E. N. Kelly of Western Pennsylvania, 
reports the inexcusable and illegal shooting of 
a big buck elk, one of the herd turned loose 
by the State in Clearfield, Clinton and Center 
counties, and is after the perpetrators of this 
crime. Writing of the incident, Mr. Kelly says: 
“The fellow who killed this knew exactly what 
he was doing, for he was shot in wide open 
country and was looking directly at its slayer 
at short range when he put a ‘punkin ball’ from 
a 12 gauge shotgun through its breast. The 
ball passed through the heart and ranged back 
lodging in the hind quarter. The animal will 
weigh possibly 700 pounds, about three times 
the size of a big buck deer, and as it had a fine 
set of antlers, could not have been mistaken for 
a deer. 
“The elk was killed about one-half mile from 
the Crystal Springs Club-house and if I get my 
hands on the fellow who killed that elk he is 
going to pay the full penalty. The whole 
countryside up here is stirred up by this thing, 
for the people who live here have been mighty 
pleased to see the elk put in, and to have a dirty 
skunk deliberately shoot as fine a specimen as 
this, right out in the open where he knew ex¬ 
actly what he was doing, is an outrage.” 
FAVORABLE FOR SMALL GAME. 
Independence, Kan., Feb. 7, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
This has been a very favorable winter for 
small game in this locality as we have so far 
had less than one inch of snow altogether and 
the coldest weather two above zero. As you 
know, quail are protected until 1921 and they 
are already showing considerable increase in 
numbers. I believe they will win out all right if 
we can only teach the farmers their value to 
them and induce them to protect them. One of 
my customers, seven miles out was complaining 
in my shop last week that he had been raided 
twice in the night when he was absent from home 
by parties in autos who would go over the fields 
farthest from the house, as their tracks showed 
plainly where they had thoroughly quartered the 
ground. He had several fine covies of quail but 
after these visits they have all disappeared. It 
is supposed from appearances that the raiders 
were after quail and rabbits. He says he is go¬ 
ing to lay for them with his Marlin, No. 12. 
E. B. WHITE. 
SPRING SHOOTING OF MIGRATORY BIRDS 
ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED. 
Washington, D. C.—From the number of let¬ 
ters which they have received on the subject re¬ 
cently, officials ofi the Departmnt of Agriculture 
believe that sportsmen may unintentionally violate 
the ' provisions of the Federal Migratory Bird 
Law, which it is the purpose of the Government 
to enforce rigidly. Under the provisions of this 
law no wafer fowl can be shot in the northern 
or breeding zone after January 15, except in New 
TWENTY COON CAUGHT IN SEVEN NIGHTS. 
The Work of Harry Baker (on the Left) and C. E. Barkholder (on the Right) of Seville, Medina 
County, Ohio—Not Forgetting Spot, the Dog. 
