
FOREST AND STREAM: 

[Oct. 26, 1907. 






Now Furnished 
with 
Automatic Ejector 


Money cannot buy nor 
skill make a better gun ff 
thanthe A. H. Fox Gun. We Xi: 
employ the most skilled QQ 
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workmen it’s possible to hire S==3ancs) 
and pay a higher scale of wages tuuu any other gun fac- 
tory. We get inreturna higher grade of work, Our policy 
r) is—**Quality first; cost afterwards.” 
The Fox Gun h: 1S fewer parts in its mechanism than any @ 
other double hammerless gun made. These parts are therefore 
larger and stronger, hence “{mpossible to break or get out of order, 
This gives aless. complicated action, greater simplicity, added strength 
and more graceful lines, 
99 Each part of a Fox Gun receives tie most exact testing and gauging, 
OT and after the gun is assembled it is fine ally tested by an expert tr: ap and 
field shooter. Ask your dealer to stow you the “Ansley H. Fox Gun,” 
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trated. Cloth, 345 pages. Price, $2.50 
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TO PROTECT OUR GAME. 
A PRAISEWORTHY movement has been start: 
in New Jersey to protect the game birds 
that State and to prevent their threatened a 
nihilation. The movement is supportea by tl 
gun clubs, and aims not at the ending of gor 
and honest sport, but at its perpetuation. At t) 
first meeting of the new Association, D 
Fisher, of the United States Biological Surve 
declared that every year more wild birds we 
killed than were produced, so that unless thf 
wanton destruction can be stopped, future ge 
erations will be barred forever from eith 
shooting or eating game birds. What he sa 
applies not only to New Jersey, but to near}! 
every State in the Union, and it is high tir 
that a united and strong effort be made 
prevent such consequences as this expert pr 
dicts. The present game laws, says the Su 
in most States are entirely inadequate to gi} 
the needed protection, for of all the statut 
those aimed to prevent the ruthless destru 
tion of birds are among the most difficult 
enforce. In European countries the divisic 
of the land into large estates, where game 
all kinds is carefully guarded, there is no su 
problem as faces us here, though there |! 
course the shooting is limited to a certa 
favored class. Here the country, particular|! 
that lying near our large centers of populatio|! 
is divided into smaller holdings, and the a 
erage farmer pays little attention to the we 
fare of his wild neighbors. He is allowed | 
post his land and prevent trespass, but 1) 
does not, and the shooting is virtually open 
every man with a gun. And of those who ave’! 
themselves of this privilege in the season ar/|! 
roam at will over the land in search of gan 
a very large proportion are what the tri/ 
sportsman terms “pot-hunters.” They want} 
covey of quail bunched in a fence corner f 
the mercy of both barrels, and not a goo} 
clean shot on the wing, they are satisfied ni) 
with a good day’s sport in the open air, b |: 
with a bag bursting with birds. Their prin|p 
purpose is to kill, and to them anything thii 
lives, excepting man and the domestic animi:( 
is a fair target for their guns. ‘ 
Near New York we. have Long Island / 
the favorite shooting country, and it is a fa® 
example of the conditions that prevail near ef 
our large cities. One acquainted with it ca‘ 
not but wonder that at the end of the shooti:* 
season there is a bird, rabbit or deer livir® 
between the East River and Montauk Poir!! 
From the day the season opens the country 
scoured from end to end by shooting partie |! 
the morning trains go out crowded with ther 

























































































and they drop off at every station and cris[) 
cross the land. As the game fowl grow scare ly 
the song birds suffer, and it is not an unusu!! 
sight to see three of four armed men and}! 
dog in pursuit of a single unfortunate rabbit «! 
squirrel. It is safe to predict that in a fet 
years more these “sportsmen” will have 1}! 
seek new hunting grounds or take to the e:!” 
pedient of Tartarin and his Tarascon frienc{" 
and use their own caps for targets. New Je} 
sey suffers as does Long Island. 
An absolutely closed season hereabouts fc!” 
a long period would be an excellent thin] 
giving the varied families of game a chance 1 
recover from the deadly assaults of years, an}, 
it would cause no pte Be. to the vast majo 
ity of the community. Under the present gar 
sight to see three or four armed men and 
lack of interest on the part of the generi}y 
community, it is extremely difficult to give th} 
game the needed protection. The most powe 
ful influence that can be aroused is that of tth 
landowners, who have heretofore looked wit}. 
too lenient an eye on the hunter. If the gu) 
clubs and Audubon societies who have beguh 
this movement in New Jersey can awaken aly 
interest in the farmers in the protection 
their wild neighbors, the co-operation woul}; 
be effective and we could look for splendif 
results. 
There may be those who differ with tht 
sportsmen on the question as to whether kilft 
ing is sport at all, but the preservation of gam 
is essential to sportsmen, and they should havin 




