The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
GUN AND GAME,
Only Two Months in Which Game Can Be
Sold-Trap Shooting.

Only Two Months in Which Game Can Be
Sold-Trap Shooting.
According to the new game bill, snipe of
any kind can be shot at all seasons of the
year except in such counties where
special ordinance may keep market hunt
ers from slaughtering them
Although the birds received a cold
shoulder from the sportsmen who assisted
| in the new game bill, it can be safely said
that no man who has the interest of game
protection at heart will enter the field for
the purpose OF killing snipe during the
months in which they breed 1t is only
! market hunters and campers who need to
be feared as the true sportsman will not
enter field in quest of game birds of any
kind during the months of closed season.
! The English snipe is the gamest of game
birds and it certainly does not augur well
for the gentlemen of the Sportsmen's Con-
ventlon to shut them out OF protection en-
| tirely.
There may be some parts of the State
which the English or Wilson snipe do not
| frequent until about the time of the clos
ing of the season for shooting game birds.
| If such be the case the season for snipe-
shooting should have been prolonged a
month, so as to give those sportsmen
I
tunity of enjoying favorite pastime; but
the idea of discarding the English snipe
entirely from the list of game birds which
are to be protected during the breeding
season was about as absurd thing as could
be imagined in the face of the fact that the
primary object of the convention as
sem bled was game protection.
1t is hoped by all true lovers of shooting
that the sportsmen residing in those coun.
| ties in which the snipe breed will so far
interest themselves in the protection of the
| birds as to intercede with the Supervisors.
who can pass an ordinance with that OBJ
! ject in view.
The great breeding grounds of the SHINE
in this State are in Sierra and Plumas
counties; and as Senator Ford represented
Sierra IN the Sportsmen's Convention held
In this city year ago, he will undoubtedly
interest himself in behalf of snipe protec-
ton with the Supervisors of Sierra County.
some OF the lovers OF snlpe-shooting who
reside In this city should intercede with
the City Fathers and explain to the latter
the necessity of an ordinance which will
prohibit the sale of English snipe between
the months of May and August, as profess
slonal hunters will certainly be out slaugh-
terlng the breeding birds for this market.
The meadow lark was included in the
game bill among the songbirds that should
be protected, but when the farmers had
learned of that fact they sent in letters NV
the score to the legislators stating that the
lark was most destructive to young grain
and that any bill offering them projection
should be killed instanter.
The committee on fish and game, fearing
that the game bill would meet with hastv
knockout should larks be included among
the birds to be protected, wisely concluded
| to erase the name of California; sonpbird
from the list. The Supervisors of anv
county who may feel disposed to give Iarks
protection can ordaln to that effect as LONG
! as the birds are not included in the game
| bill
| Heretofore Supervisors had the power tn
change the wording of the game law to
| suit their respective localities. This can
not be done after the new game bill shall
have become a law.
| 1t would be well for all those who deal in
game to keep their eye on the following
| new section as regards the sale of game
1t reads:
Every cold storage company and every per
son Keeping cold storage warehouse tavern,
hotel, restaurant or clearinghouse and every
marketman or other person who shall Inv self
expose or offer for sale in this State any mail
bobwhlte, partridge, grouse, dove or wild duck
whether taken or killed in the State of Califor,
mia or shipped into the State from any other
between the fifteenth day Of September and the
fifteenth day of January of the following wear.
shall be guilty OF misdemeanor.
The first of series of six matches be-
tween the Lincoln, Empire and Electric
gun clubs will take place on Sunday at
80 P. NJ. at the Oakland racetrack grounds.
The conditions will be $40 entrance ner
team, twenty birds to the man. Winners
TO take twO-thlrdS of entrance fee in each