Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-23
VAUDEVILLE.
WITH THE HUNTERS.
The Game Plenty but Harder to Get at, This
Season.

The fact that ii is more diff to
get a deer this year, than il was last
was apparent before the season was
two weeks old. That the game Is plen-
tiful cannot be doubted by any one VII
has passed through the upper part 81
the upper part Of the State on the
trains during this month. ana seen the
large number of them that are being
handled Many truck loads u them
are seen, the weight ranging from that
Of the doe that viii tip the scales AT
30 pounds to the buck which VIII dress
100 pounds. No perfectly satisfactory
reason has yet been advanced relating
10 the present condition Of the hunting.
but the poor weather is most common
~ accepted The month has been UT =
usually poor thus far. The abundance
Of rain has filed all the summer brooks
in the hills, so that the game has not
been obliged 10 leave its haunts FOR
water, as in September. During tina
month, the deer were, as rule. obliged
10 seek the lakes and ponds for water
and their tracks about their shores can
even now be seen in abundance. Aside
from the rainy days, there have been
many windy ones when it was impos
sible for hunter 10 get abou. in TIM
woods without being himself heard by
the game When the haunts of the
game We're known II has been possible
TO get at them and many have been
shot in this way.
The large amount Or rain has also
flooded the swamps SO that travel
through them is very difficult. II is
-
will greatly improve during No.emb@r.
and that some good hunting can BE-
had on the first snow. when the game
can be tracked and hunted npiseIessiy
There seems TO be a general impress
sion in the game country that the Sep
tember law Is a detriment To the Octo-
Der hunting. Nothing frightens the
deer like the sound Of gun ana when
there is much shooting in September
they are driven back into the woods
away from the ponds and camps Nhere
the September hunters congrcEate. 50
that the October hunter has to travel
much farther after his game than h.
would If here was no shooting IN sep
TENDER
Those who are familiar with the deer
say that they are great wanderers and
that this accounts for the fact that
place whore there was good hunting
one season fails the next year Those
who live in the game regions report
that there was an abundance f deer
all through the summer. Many waited
| impatiently for the day when the open
season should commence. confident that
, they could get their pair almost in
sight Of their barns. and found when
the time did come that their beauties
had stole quietly away and We're not to
be found when the law no longer pro-
tected them. II is difficult to convince
seem that there is no noticeable de-
not good lawyers and Well acquainted
with their own interests.
From what can be gathered ii would
seem that there is no noticeable de
crease in the quantity Of game, but
that il is simply harder e. get at. Thu
Year. With the assistance If an exper-
fenced guide who knows his country
thoroughly, there is no reason why
anyone should not get his full quota.
40 one need think that ~ has only TN
get a dozen miles into the woods awal
from settlement t. get all the dee.'
he wants. for he cannot do il. Much
experience IS necessary and the averag.
sportsman must look To his guide foy
this