The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-27
pHoToeRAPHINe WILD GAME.

Rr1O iOGnAFnIN0 WILL GAM =.
In a recent number of the National
Geographic Magazine, Representative
George Shiras of California tells some
thing of the delights of hunting wild
game with a camera. He declares that
it is just as exciting, just as full of
thrills, just as interesting. as hunting
and killing wild game. There was
never a true sportsman who did not
even in the moment OF his victory, feel
regret for the life he had shed. The
bird that a moment before was beau
tiful, wild creature, is now a blood
whose life blood is swiftly ebbing away
had been running harmlessly. grace
fully, over it's native heath.
Deer nor bird had done the hunter
any wrong. Their lives were dear to
them, they were full of the zest of liv-
ing. Often wild game is killed for the
sheer lust of killing, but even when
the hunter stays strictly within his
legal right, when he matches his wits
against the wits of his quarry and
gives It at least a sporting chance for
its life, he cannot, If he is a genuine
sportsman. get away from that fleeing
moment Of regret. With the camera
all this is changed.
There is no closed season in camera
hunting. Every bird and every beast
can be photograph as often as the
camera hunter can get close enough
to them for the purpose. And he can
have lots of sport with game that is
protected by law the year round.
When his vacation is over and he re-
turns to Office or factory or workshop
he brings with him only pleasant
memories, and If he is lucky, a colec-
ton of photographs that will make him
the envy of his friends. People who
have tried both kinds of hunting say
there is more immediate and lasting
pleasure in raking a running deer from
stem to stern at 20 yards, with a SKI
bore camera, than driving an ounce ball
through it's heart at 100 yards
The writer continues:
] While it is true that whatever is
game to the gun is game to the camera,
I II must be particularly noted that the
latter's field is much enlarged by the
/ immense variety of birds, animals and
reptiles which are never considered fair
prey for the huntsman. Game in the
early days was declared TO be only
such as was edible, and this standard
exists at the present time, though cer-
| tain predatory animals and those pos
! sessing handsome pelts have at times
been pursued by sportsmen in the vain
/ effort TO broaden the ever-narrowing
| sphere OF their activity. Non-game
birds and animals outnumber the edible
class a thousand times. and II is this
great advantage which makes and viii
continue to make camera hunting the
more attractive and permanent Of the
two methods of pursuing wild life, and
at the same time largely counterbal-
ance the greater difficulty of photo
graphing birds or animals when COM
pared with the ease of shooting the
same under similar circumstances: for
the difference between stalking within
rife range of a moose, a deer, or a
bear and getting within a few yards
of the same, in broad daylight with the
camera, need not be pointed out"
1t is a lot of fun TO kill wild game.
and hunters there will always be to kill
it. but camera hunting is sport that
deserves encouragement. for nothing
could be more sportsmanlike.