JUNE, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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country a year ago last summer. In the 
latter part of May, for about two weeks 
the fishing was very good in the Big Horn 
mountains, west of Sheridan, but this was 
along the foothills The weather was cool 
without being cold. As you went further 
up in the mountains, it became so cold that 
you needed heavy clothing. 
In June and July I fished in Montana. 
The weather there at that time was of 
course very much warmer, but the degree 
of temperature and the clothing you are 
to wear depend entirely upon the altitude. 
May and June are the best months for fish¬ 
ing in the foothills. July and August are 
better higher up. 
I used a 6-ounce Hardy rod with an 
ordinary line and leaders, such as one 
would use in the Adirondacks. The black 
flies, I do not think, are as bad in the West 
as they are in Maine. I had my best suc¬ 
cess with the Coachman Paramache Bell, 
Seth Green flies and a brown hackle. 
We are publishing your letter with the 
request that members of the Forest and 
Stream family will add anything they can 
to the store of information on the subject.] 
WHY SOME OF THE PASSENGER 
PIGEONS HAVE' DISAPPEARED 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
While talking to an old market gunner 
this fall I learned of one of the methods by 
which the passenger pigeons were wiped 
out. As the method was new to me, I 
thought it might also interest your readers. 
When the enormous flocks were thinning 
out, the old gunner erected a perch about 
60 feet long, with one end raised io feet 
from the ground and the other about 17. 
The height of the taller end was one of the 
fine points of the structure. After pattern¬ 
ing the shotgun to be used at 45 yards, the 
diameter of the pattern was added to the 
height of the lower end, thus giving the size 
of the pole for the other end. About five 
feet to one side of the lower end of the 
perch another io-foot pole was set up with 
a small seesaw on top, to which a common 
pigeon (white preferably) was fastened by 
the feet. The bird either had its eyes put 
out or its eyelids fastened together with a 
thread passed through their edges and tied. 
After the decoy and perch were erected 
the hunter attached a string to the seesaw 
and hid in a small blind placed directly in 
line with the perch and 15 yards away from 
the lower end. 
Sighting some wild pigeons, he would pull 
the string attached to the seesaw, causing 
the decoy pigeon to rock up and down. To 
steady itself the bird would flap its wings, 
thus attracting the attention of the wild 
birds, who would alight on the perch. As 
soon as they had settled down the gunner 
would fire at the middle of the perch and, 
his shot spreading just enough to cover the 
rise in it, would rake the birds down from 
one end to the other. 
After killing enough to make it profit¬ 
able, he would ship them to the Boston 
market, where he received 10 cents apiece 
for them. C. K. Peeling. 
Dorchester, Mass. 
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