started out in the 1a0orning. He was 
just a three-year old, six points, but 
that is the age these mule deer are 
in their prime. This one dressed be- 
tween two hundred and two hundred 
and ten pounds. 
That night it snowed a foot at the 
eabin (October 25), so next morning 
my partner and I went over to bring 
some of the meat home. We saw three 
more big beauties, two bucks and one 
doe, but we didn’t shoot them as we 
had enough meat. We skinned and 
quartered the deer after I took a pic- 
ture of the buck. 
AM used to packing from sixty to 
eighty pounds through these moun- 
tains, but when I lifted a big hind 
quarter and the skin, I had a pack on 
my back. I trapped on this creek dur- 
ing the winter and was surprised to 
find that the deer stayed right up at 
timber line and above it till nearly 
New Year’s. The snow then was from 
three to four feet deep, but they 
seemed to pick a living. Timber line 
is surely the place to hunt in this coun- 
try, as you can see so far and there 
is no under brush and it is easy trav- 
eling. If you are any kind of a hunter 
and a fairly good shot you can nearly 
always get your deer and enjoy a 
good day’s sport. 
“The Squirrel a Forest Asset 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
AGREE with our friend, Charles C. 
Ropert, of Oakmont, Pa. Let us do 
all we can to keep the few forests we 
have left, and do it with a will. Let us 
plant nut trees with all possible haste, 
in all places where they can be grown. 
I cannot imagine the nature-loving gen- 
erations to come growing up without a 
pleasure trip to the woods where at 
least a few squirrels can be seen and 
appreciated to the same extent that I 
appreciate these pleasant memories as 
they take me back to many, many 
autumn days spent in roaming through 
the beautiful woods teeming with wild 
life, whose numbers were not complete 
without the squirrel. The uppermost 
thought in mind at all times was not 
just to kill, but the joy of the company 
of wild life in the woods. 
DEWEY NEWMAN, 
Wichita, Kans. 

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“If I Only Had That New Parker!’’ 
“They've got just the one I want down at Greene’s. Not very 
fancy, but looks and feels like a thoroughbred; balances like a 
feather and comes to my shoulder as if it was a part of me. And 
it costs but a few dollars more than any ordinary gun. That's the 
gun I’m going to have before the season opens.” 
Such thoughts come naturally to the sportsman once he has ex- 
amined this gun. Step into your sporting goods store and see the 
Parker Trojan at $55.00. A plain gun, but it’s every inch a Parker. 
The barrels are turned on a mandrel, insuring proper weight dis- 
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of the mechanism. If you prefer the automatic ejector type, ask 
to see a Vulcan Model. 
Catalog of all grades sent upon request. 
PARKER BROS., Master Gun Makers, 29 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn. 
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The ‘“‘Old Reliable’’ 
It will identify you. 5 
PARKER GUN 
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