The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-12
Dont's for Hunters

| Cut this article out. Memorize it
carefully. Carry 1t with you when you
start out for your hunt And read it
over every day while you are out.
Don't grasp gun by the barrel
and drag it after you out OF a boat,
through a fence or anywhere else;
unless YOU want to test the truth of
the saying that fool has more lives
than cat-and then don't. One dis
charge may blow them all out.
Don't carry more than small GUAM
tity OF whiskey with you on your hunt.
It's poor stuff to shoot on, and the
devil who engineers the "deplorable
accident you read of daily while the
hunting season is on has no more
potent ally than the product of the
still.
Don't under any circumstances al
low your gun muzzle to point for one
single moment at any living thing you
do not mean to kill.
Don't allow yourself to carry
cooked gun in your hands, not even If
you are alone. A sudden stumble may
fire It; and you can never tell where
the contents may go.
Don't carry loaded gun into your
camp or stopping place. And be alb
solutely sure that every cartridge ia
taken out OF it before you go near the
door.
II the sportsman who shot DOOR
Jones through the heart across his
own camp table had needed that don't,
and the other regarding the muzzle
OF his gun pointing at any one, Jones
would have been alive today. You
see, he took hammerless rife into
Jones camp, laid 1t down on the
table on the other side of which was
his host was sitting, talked for a
while. picked up the rifle-and killed
Jones instantly. He has never been
able to understand how.
Don't shoot at Loise.
Don't shoot at moving bush.
Don't shoot at anything to which
you cannot swear. II the sportsman
who stood in Cochran's dooryard and
killed his chum, who was coming
through high brush eighty rods away,
had needed those dont's the luckless
chum wouldn't have been hurled into
eternity without moments warning,
and the still more luckless survivor
would not be today a hopeless maniac.
Those are dont's worth needing.
Don't shoot at small game, such a.
rabbits, grouse or squirrels with big
ammunition.
The man who shot at rabbit with
high-power rife last season and kill.
ed woodsman half a mile away has
wished many time since that he ha.
needed that don't.
Don't go away from your camp be-
fore you have familiarized yourself
with the lay OF the land and the land
marks within radius of at least
half a mile.
Don't go out without a good supply
OF matches. part Of them in q water
proof case as an emergency supply;
good. heavy hunting knife, a we'll
ground hunting axe or Ratchet,
pocket compass and a lunch. There is
always usch thing as getting lost
among the possibilities.
Don't lose your head If you do lose
your bearings; that is II you get lost.
Sit down. take a smoke, get your mind
out OF the first panic into which the
fact that you don't know where you
are at Is sure to throw it. and as soon
as 1t ts In normal working order don't
make a fool Of yourself by trying to
find the way back. II you could do
that you would not have got lost in
the first instance.
Don't give yourself up for lost, how
ever. Get busy. Gather a heap OF
wood in case you have to camp out
all night. Make FIRE. Then sit down
and wait for the guide to find you.
That's what he is sure to be trying to
do, 80 don't make It harder for him by
getting away from him as rapidly as
panic speed can effect 1t.
Don't shoot at running game or any
other, unless you can clearly see three
thfngs-the game, the front sight of
your gun and the rear ditto. and all
three in conjunction, mind.
Don't jerk the trigger when you do
see those three objects In conjunction;
press 1t. Then you won't throw the
gun barrel up the least trifle at the