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FOREST AND STREAM 
JUNE, 1917 
’Way Up in the 
Maine Woods 
FISHING HUNTING 
CANOEING CAMPING 
In virgin country, as comfortable 
or as rigorous as you care to make 
it. 
Only 16 Hours from New York 
Experienced, licensed guides make 
living in the solitudes as safe as 
at home. Their cooking is pro¬ 
verbial and their knowledge of 
wood-lore and quaint ways are 
peculiarly appealing to the tired 
man and woman who seek a real 
vacation. 
The fishing is the “gamiest” im¬ 
aginable; the guides know every 
inch of the waters. 
The hunting offered co.vers almost 
the whole range of feathered and 
furry sport—in season. 
The canoeing is simply the best 
there is anywhere. The Allagash 200 
mile trip is perfect—shorter dis¬ 
tances if you prefer it. 
Camping. This is up to you. You 
can secure a hotel, a camp, a tent 
or a lean-to. Ladies may have 
every convenience and they may 
enjoy the sport just as well as the 
men. 
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But send 10 cents for the book “In the 
Maine Woods, 1917.” It tells you all you 
wish to know. It contains articles, illus¬ 
trations and colored sectional maps show¬ 
ing fishing waters, distances and how to 
take the many trips available. It gives 
routes, locations of hotels and camps and 
their rates, information about guides,—in 
short it is a mine of information. 
Address Vacation Bureau 
Department C 
Bangor, Me. 
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human beings, and this point has been 
brought out by many writers, among whom 
may be named especially Col. Theodore 
Roosevelt; yet it seems to have made little 
impression on the public intelligence. 
People everywhere are disposed to general¬ 
ize from their own limited experience, and 
because they see one deer or panther or 
ruffed grouse act in a particular fashion, 
they hastily conclude that all animals of that 
species invariably act in the same way. 
This, of course, is wide of the mark. 
A Rocky Mountain hunter who years ago 
was accustomed to give much time every 
winter to hunting panthers with dogs in 
western Montana had the utmost contempt 
for their fighting qualities. A certain dog 
that he owned was accustomed to overtake 
a panther, seize it by the end of its tail and, 
setting his feet in the snow, to pull back. 
The panther would then, according to the 
hunter, turn about in more or less slow and 
clumsy fashion and strike at the dog, which 
readily avoided the blow. This, our 
friend told us, happened not once only, 
but several times in his sight, and with dif¬ 
ferent animals. 
We have a record of only one attack by 
a panther on a man, and this came from 
T. Elwood Hofer, better known to readers 
as “Billy” Hofer. A man in winter was 
crossing the mountains between Cook City 
and the Yellowstone Park, when a cougar 
sprang on him from a rock above the 
trail, and knocked him down. The man 
was clad in winter clothing, and wore a 
gray mackinaw coat. When the beast struck 
him, according to our recollection, it seized 
the shoulder of the coat in its teeth and 
stuck its claws into the coat in other places, 
and knocked the man down. He shouted in 
surprise or alarm, and the animal jumped off 
him and ran away up the mountains. It is 
believed that the cougar took the man for 
a deer or a sheep. 
The accompanying photograph shows the 
children who fought off the cougar in 
British Columbia. 
LEARN NOW TO SHOOT STRAIGHT 
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A very simple form of bullet catcher is 
shown in Figure 1. One of these will be 
necessary for each target. 
It is a stout wooden box with a ^-inch 
iron or steel lining at the back where the 
bullets hit, and a thinner sheet-iron lining 
around the top, bottom and sides to catch 
splashes from bullets which break up when 
they strike the back. The front is large 
enough (14 by 11 inches) to take a double 
the floor for prone shooting, and breast 
high for offhand shooting. They should 
cost not over three dollars each to make, 
and will last for years if the wood front 
is renewed occasionally. And they serve 
an incidental purpose by catching and sav¬ 
ing all lead, which can be sold. To pro¬ 
tect the wall against which the bullet 
catcher is hung, from damage by stray bul¬ 
lets, sheet-iron or steel inch thick and 
4 feet wide, fixed to the wall behind, will 
generally suffice. 
The target frame for carrying the tar¬ 
gets to and from butt to firing point, shown 
in Figure 2, is a simple, cheap and efficient 
arrangement. Two or three of these 
frames should be made up of light strips 
of wood about four inches wide and one- 
half inch thick. To change targets it is 
a simple matter to stop firing for a mo¬ 
ment and replace the frame at the butt 
with a new frame of fresh targets. 
A diagram of an ideal indoor range on 
a somewhat more elaborate plan, and 
equipped with a trolley system for six tar¬ 
gets, is also shown. Detailed plans of such 
6-inch target held in place by tacks. The 
whole arrangement can be hung on a nail 
driven into the wall: eighteen inches above 
a range can be obtained without charge 
through Forest and Stream. The equip¬ 
ment costs approximately $150. 
