Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21
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sporting men is, how to load to scatter
Bosh Gentlemen, learn to shoot like Dr.
Carver and you will find no need OF scat
tering your shot all over an acre field to
hit one goose in flock.
A gentleman who has been thinking OF
buying hack, having visited menagerie,
comes home radiant with Joy I'm going
to buy one of them zebras, he says !;
Zone of those riied horses. They must
carry much further than the ordinary sort /
DR.. Carver is giving our American sports.
men lesson in true marksman and sports.
manship in the adoption OF light guns OF
smaller caliber. One quail brought down in
a day by cool, steady and close aim Is
higher standard oY the sportsman and
craftsmanship than fifty birds taken with
q young cannon.
The Marquis of Lorne was SO taken by
the plumed quail of California, during his
recent trip to the Pacific cast, that he was
seized with desire to cultivate them at
Inverary, his ancestral home. Doubtless
the attempt will prove unsatisfactory. 1t
was tried by Lord Southampton nearly
half century ago and failed. The Earl
of Stamford succeeded little better at
Enville Hall, Stsffordshire, for the birds
bred. but their numbers diminished and
they finally disappeared. Their tendency
to wander is fatal to their propagation in
SO populous and poacher-haunted region
as Britain. 1.-The Hour. q
An Act to extend the cruelty to animal
laws of Great Britain has passed the House
of Commons. Should it also pass the up.
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sport. Thus the liberation of stag from
a cart, as is done when her Majesty 3
buckhounds hunt; the coursing of captive
hares or rabbits; the training of hawks in
falconry, and the shooting of pigeons at the
trap, not to speak of setting terriers on
rats and cats upon living mice, would all
become penal offenses. The keeping of or
namental waterfowl by pinioning, and
many scientific observations, would also
be put an end to.-[The Hour.
Pierre Lorillard has imported 100 brace
of English cartridges for shooting purposes
on his estate at Johnstown. Mr.. Reiche,
the dealer in animals, has about $50 brace,
twenty-five of which he has sold to the son
of John Roach, who will put them on his
grounds in Westchester county. Twenty.
five brace Mr.. Reiche, Jr., will turn loose
at Sterling. N. j. In speaking OF these
birds, Mr.. Reiche says /" The English part
ridge is one of the gamest of its species. 1t
does not run, like the French partridge,
but is more like the American woodcock.
Lorillard will not allow any of the part
ridges to be shot on his place for over
two years. He proposes to propagate
Them and in three or four years he will
test the skill of our sportsmen.
Delaware has enacted law requiring
special license to sell or ship game at any
time of the year. Also making it INSIDE
meanor to hunt or trespass upon any pri-
vate property without license from the
Delaware Game Protective Association.
Farewell to pot hunting in Delaware, and
the roaming of lot of irresponsible riot
ers, who knock down fences, let down
bars, trample grain down, trespass
upon orchardists, shoot tame chickens,
and degrade the name of sportsmen.
Such law in California would work re-
lief to landowners. Farmers, as rule,
do not object to having responsible persons
who deport themselves as gentlemen hunt
upon their grounds, and If applied to by
persons with license, they would. have a
guarantee that such would be the case.
The open season for doves begins on the
LIST of June-a most inhuman, heartless
revision of the law, brought about by
restless greed and disregard for the laws of
nature. From the 18th of May to the 18th
of July is the principal breeding time for
doves. Beginning May the 18th, the first
broods are Just Matched about the LIST of
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which would more efectually effect their
determination than the killing of the pa
rent bird at that time. The farmers have
no better friend than the dove to help keep
down the weeds by the vast amount of
this variety of seeds devoured by them.
And it is to their interest to protect the
doves as fully as possible. 1t is to be hoped
that every farmer upon whose grounds
these birds may abound will post
notices prohibiting shooting upon them
until August LIST. This is not only human,
but also in the interest of every farmer.
The announcement of the international
gun trial, to be held in New York in No
vember, at this early day seems to have
been governed by good judgment. There
are many who object, however, to giving
manufacturers time to build guns especially
for trial. 1t is difficult to see any grounds
for such objections. If Messrs Parker or
Greener are capable of manufacturing a
gun for these trials of superior quality to
any either have yet offered for sale, there
is no unfairness in giving them the oppor.
tunity. There is no obstacle in the way of
our sportsmen obtaining gun of exact
standard and superiority of construction
and penetration if he SO desires. A trial
of guns taken from the shelves of dealers
does not indicate that the manufacturer
cannot produce gun superior in action.
There should be a distinction made
in the trial of such guns. Those
especially built for these trials should be
designated as such. Let the trial of them
be separate and distinct one. Purchasers
will then know how to choose in making
purchase, whether from the shelves of
dealer or by order, to be built to like
standard of action or execution as shown in