The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
LONG ISLAND DEER HUNTING.
1000 HUNTERS EXPECTED TO
TURN OUT NEXT WEDNESDAY,.
II WIN De The First Day Of the Open season
Precautions Taken That No Deer
Shall Escapc-Also That No Hunter
Shall lie ShOt-Tho Law Opposed.

E~AsTPORT, J.. j., Nov. 2.-When the legal
season for killing deer opens on Long Island
next Wednesday 1000 hunters will be on
the ground.
The shooting tract lies along the northern
side Of the Montauk ran OF the Long
J Island Railroad. between sayville and
! Great River, and extends to the main line
of the road about eight miles away. In this
tract il IL estimated that there are more
thar 1000 deer.
The preserves Of the South Side Sports
mems Club are nearby. As the public Is
! not permitted to treepass on the property.
and as the members OF the club themselves
abstain from killing tho deer, the animals
enjoy practical immunity from pursuit once
they reach the preserves.
To this fact IL attributed the preservation
Of deer on Long Island. Were the club to
remove its protection from them for even
a single season II Is probable that the sport
which is now available TO hundreds at little
expense or trouble would be Immediately
terminated,
| A few days before the opening OF the
season each year the club sends its watch
men to the adjoining public grounds for
the purpose of driving the deer into its en-
| closure. II Ia the animals which elude the
watchmen that afford sport for the visiting
public.
While the law prohibits the shooting OF
deer ut night and the season consequently
does not open until daylight on Nov. o
hundreds of hunters will be securing the
/ bushes on the shooting tract by midnight
| on Tuesday. Jack lanterns are used to
| show the deer IA they are driven from the
| coyerts by the shouts OF the sportsmen.
The real sport of the day begins at dawn
on Wednesday. From then on the incesSant
baying of dogs and firing Of heavily-loaded
/ shotguns will be heard until darkness clos
ing In compels an abandonment OF the sport.
The hunters are usually in parties. whose
members are stationed along a line in the
woods and about two %gunshots apart.
This arrangement not only insures a shot
at any deer which may endeavor to escape
In their direction. but also makes the hunters
safer, each knowing the location of the
others.
Notwithstanding the precautions taken
by the hunters that no deer shall escape
il sometimes occurs that a dozen or more
shots are fired AZ the game In its flight
without any effect.
A favorite line Of the hunters il one skirt
ing the fence of the south Side Sportsmens'
Club through which all the animals attempt
to pass to gain the security afforded by he
association preserves. Sometimes a
wounded deer gets into the preserves and
an tempt by tho hunter to recover it
gets him into a row with the watchmen.
The shooting Of a deer does not seem
10 be the only requisite of success In the
hunt on Long Island. Unless n sports
,.a,ss ,,.rt .. a.. .,,nf,t.ntlx. = rnpn in num-
bers to protect its rights ZONE Of the rufiars
who infest the woods will in all proba-
bility seize and carry the deer ava de-
spite the protestations of the owner.
There seems to be a tacit understanding
as To the division of the deer which has
been killed. The hunter killing it receives
the lead. the owner of the dogs the skin,
white the meat is divided equally among
| all the members OF the party.
Some Of the hunters climb a tree when
| engaged in hunting the door. thereby
| getting not only a better aud wider view
of the surrounding country bat also greater
security again-t being mistaken for a
! deer 10y some over zealou though well
meaning sportsman.
II is expected that not less thnn 2,0D
sportsmen will he ON the ground on the
! first day Of the season when probably
| fifty or sixty deer will be- shot. The total
kills of the next three dgvs Of the season
will probably not exceed his number.
The members Of the South SID Sports
mems Clu a. well A. many 81 the wealthy
residents Of Sayville and the adjacent
villages ara opposed 10 the p%r-sanc" Of
the deer hunters who, they ailrge, br-
come intovicat"d and dc-irpytheir property
They have made several attempts tn es-
tabli.h a permanent close ~cl-pn Tor the
deer IN this region. bu'. owing 10 th" in
nuenor of the fHrln"rz and hotel pruprle-
tor hn We boen unsuccessful
The farmers every year suffer damage
through the d-prelatiuu- - me ieer upon
| their crops and. ~ the stat" offers them no
c,ml.nsatipn Tor ihrs' lnr-"s tley are nat
urally anxious that th" drrf should h."
ext.rmiuai.l ON the other hand 10"
hotel L..lrr. derive cuu-iieflll" profit
from the huut"rs
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