Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-02-14
OUR CAME LAW.

10 gnu DIS tuOSc III duy Stdbo III bu0 uL-
ion and we do not believe that any great
changes should be made, at the present
session of the legislature. We do be-
lieve, however, that few changes in
the laws can be made which might ma
terially aid in carrying out the object of |
she fish and game laws, Senator Buck |
staff clearly defines the object of these
laws in the following statement: '"To so |
regulate the killing and taking of game |
that the public shall get out of it the |
greatest good, but without destroying
the olrce of supply" With veiw of
further promoting this object, we sug-
ye>t the following changes: |. Prohibit
the killing of does and fawns for per-
iod of five years. 2. License dogs to be
used by the hunter on a chain when fol-
lowing a wounded deer. 3 Double the
present bounty on wolves. 4. Prohibit
the sale of venison and cartridges for
period of five years.
If the law forbid tie killing of does
and fawns, it would make it necessary
for the hunter to take more time before
he shot at his game, and we believe
would materially decrease the number
of men that are mistaken for deer and
shot. IT the hunter were required to
look closely before he fired and deter
mine whether or not the deer had horns
he ought to be able at least to determine
whether his targat was deer or man
Again, if this change were made the
hunting and killing of deer would not
materially decrease the multiplying
powers of the game and, in as much as
the greatest prize of the deer hunter is
the buck with it's fine antlers, we do not
believe the change would material
ly decrease the pleasure of the true
sportsman in hunting deer,
1t is a we'll know fact that in
telligent dogs of almost any varie-
| ty can be ira ined easily to follow
the trail of a wounded deer, while the
dog is fastened to one end of the chain
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to the belt of his master, With a little
training the dog can be made to move
silently along the trail of a wounded
deer fastened as above indicated to his
masters belt and thus enable the hunt
err to find his game which in many in.
stancest it would otherwise be impossi-
BILE for him to do. Every hunter knows
that deer often fatally wounded will
not bleed enough to enable the hunter
to follow him, although there is snow
on the ground and will very seldom
bleed enough to be followed by the the
hunter if there is no snow.
The dog trained as we have suggest
ed, fastened to his masters belt with a
cora will lead the hunter to his game
and if the buck is not dead when they
come onto him the huuter will be in as
good aposition to use his rifle with effect
ashe would if he had been able to follow
the wounded deer without the use of
the dog. The great objection which is
generally made to law allowing the
US" of dogs for wounded deer is that
the law would be abused and dogs
would be used indiscriminatly. We be-
leve this would be true if dogs were
allowed to run loose in hunting deer,
but if hunters were allowed to use dogs
only when the dog was attached to a
cord, which must be heldin the hands Of
the hunter or att ached to his belt, then
we do not see that the hunter would
have any object in hunting any deer
in this way except wounded deer and
then only when he was unable to track
the deer without the use OF the dog.
The use OF dog in this way would
decrease the number Of deer
killed. The law now allows every |
hunter to kill two deer; this means |
that he he is allowed to kill as many |
deer as he wishes until he is able to
take Or find two which he has killed,
and every experienced hunter knows |
that many deer are mortallV wounded |
that the hunter QOeS not get. III may
not generally be known that wolves
kill many deer at all seasons of the
year, during the summer months as
well as the winter, but it is fact and |
we believe that they are more destruc-
tive to does and fawns during the
months of May and June than at any
other season Of the year unless it may
be in the latter part of the winter when
the snow is very deep with crust
that will carry the wolf and not the deer,
These great timber wolves are very
thick throughout the northern part of
his state at the presan time, and seem
% be increasing. We believe that
/ bounty should be placed upon them
which would be an incentive to en- to
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