The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
GUN AND RIFLE.
How Girl Captured Six-Pronged
Buck In TomaleS Bay.

SUCK In IOmaleS Bay.
The Country Club will meet before the
traps to-day at Oakland track and as this
will be its last live-bird shoot prior to the
grand annual outing at Del Monte next
month a large representation of pigeon
grassers is expected. On Saturday the
Empire Club will shoot at Alameda mole
in the forenoon, and during the afternoon
team shoot will result between the Lin
coin, Electric and Empire clubs.
The Country Club has decided to have
its preserve we'll stocked with foreign
game next year. 1t is now in correspond
ence with English sportsmen, who have
promised to supply the club with Scottish
grouse-a very hardy bird-blackcock and
other game ind Igenous to the highlands of
Scotland. An attempt may also be made
to introduce the Japanese woodcock, a
bird which the most experienced sports
men of the club believe would prosper and
do well in Bear Valley and the swampy
ground that lies between Olema and the
White House. The pheasant has proven
a failure and experience has demonstrated
that this noble specimen of the game
bird family will thrive and flourish
only in the open country, where grain
grows in abundance and where the ground
is kept moist by raius. Since the Country
Club commenced war on 'the varmlnts''
only an occasional fox, wildcat, coon or
polecat is now seen where few years ago
they were not only plentiful but bold and
very destructive to game birds. The result
of the determination of these worthless
animals is the Increase of quail and cotton
tail rabbits. The latter have become sur
prisingly numerous.
Tanning, well-known trap-shooter,
whose gun burst one day last month while
shooting at live birds, will soon receive
two splendid barrels from the East in place
of the barrels which were destroyed.
Detective Harper and company of deer
hunters are expected home from two
weeks outing IN Mendocino County this
week Officer Ryan, who was among the
hunters for a few days, states that several
deer were killed, and that the day before
he left for home Harper killed a 400-pound
black bear in Rattlesnake Gulch.
A large deer was killed on Shattuck's
ranch. south of San Andreas Lake last
Sunday. The successful hunter before he
had given the game animal its final
the deer's horn, which laid open the back
of his left hand.
Al Hall of Point Reyes killed nice
buck last Saturday on what is known as
the home ranch. Hall discovered two
bucks feeding in a com patch, and sue
ceeded in picking Off the best looking ami
NAL of the two.
There is a young lady rusticating at
Inverness, on Tomales Bay, who has won
the hearts of the young men in that neigh
borhood She is brave as she is pretty,
and that is the principal reason she is so
highly priced by the young men and de-
spised by creatures of her own sex.
Last week a magnificent antlered deer
that had been chased by Country Club
hounds dashed through Inverness camp
and into the BAY. Not single man was
number of single ladies saw the monarch
of the forest as it passed on to the water:
Only one among the cluster of bloomered
pleasure seekers would condescend to
CHI tse the deer, Notwithstanding the fact
that it was truly noble buck. But the
young lady who had quickly decided upon
venison for supper sprang into canoe
after the monarch that had already gained
a large handicap. Slowly the canoe
gained upon the swimming deer,
and the race, according to several
ladies who witnessed it from shore,
was of most exciting nature. The game
had almost gained the opposite bank when
the heroine of the camp, in her frall craft,
shot alongside those treacherous horns
that adorned an elevated skull, end then
war was Immediately declared by the
young miss, who landed the blade of her
paddle emphatically on the nose OF the
now frenZied buck. The latter was handi
capped in not being in position to use his
klckers in any way excepting as means
OF increasing his speed.
The deer, on finding that his escape to
the east side Of the bay had been cut off by
4 oQ +ol aratl ann f q rrIrl
reluctantly concluded to turn about wheel,
and the race back to Camp Inverness, over
the bay, is said to have been most anus
ing. Beauty in the boat kept close up to
the beauty in the water, and each time
that the buck would manifest the least de-
sire to change its course or look mean,
beauty in the boat brought down
the sharp blade of the oar on the
horns of the swimming beauty. Final
ly the highly priced game had almost
reached the Inverness side when one of the
noble deer-stalkers connected with the
camp put in a welcome appearance with
one tree squirrel ne had succeeded in
killing after mornings hunt, and his
surprise can be better imagined than de-
scribed when his eyes Toasted upon the
water picture Quickly grasping a rope
that was close at hand, he sprang into q
boat and headed for beauty and the beast.
The deer was thoroughly exhausted by
this time and the hunter had little diff
Guilty in getting it's horns in moose, after
which landing was easily effected.
Camp Inverness was well supplied with
choice venison steaks for some days after
ward, but the letters of congratulation the
heroine received from her friends of this
City and elsewhere since then would more
than have pleased fastidious princess.
A small band of deer-stalkers, com posed
OF Colonel P. Boland, Schoolteacher O'Con-
nor, Tom Cleary and Dave Haretield, has
just returned from a weeks outing at the
headwaters of the Walhalla River. Hare
field is said to have killed two deer, but
Cleary more than astonished his friends
by some wonderful shooting at dead
squirrel which had been tied on the limb
Of tree by one of the practical iokers.
He shot nine times at the squirrel and fail
ing to bring the little animal off its perch
he concluded that it had the ten lives of a