The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-13

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Sometimes two or three deer may be
on the run at the same time. With 90
many hounds In the woods tracks are
crossed and the dogs get mixed. but not
dosen claimants may appear for the deer.
each OF whom 10 confident that his pop
ut It was the deadly ons.
The owners Of the dogs. too. have each
q claim. There 10 nothing to do but make
a division Of the quarry, unless whoever
gets to the body nrst ID able by his own
prowess or the aid Of his companions to
seize the deer outright.
In other parts of the Suffolk county
woods the sport 10 not % strenuous. but a.
there are more deer adjacent to the Oak
dale preserves than elsewhere that vicinity
is the common battlehne.
While searching FOR q lost ball on the
Bellport links last week a golfer put up q
cock pheasant that sailed away in grandeur
to the nearby woods. Compared With tho
whirring fight Of u partridge the pheasant
is as slow az an OF team beside an auto
mobile. and the best shooting for them
Ia whom they arc driven : o the guns by
heaters.
Odd ~pheasauts have been noted in many
parts Of Long Island. often miles away
Pensity to stray 10 worriment to the clubs
that have stocked their land with than.
They are not 40 shy a. quail or partridge
and on this account often are secured BY
the ~pothunters, In and out Of season.
Whatever the reason, those who have
turned out pheasants arc not satisled with
the increase. One clubman nays that the
pheasant shooting this season will not
amount TO much.
Scattering about sheaves Of wheat and
similar foodin the winter, when the weather
10 too severe for the birds 10 ind ~provender
for themselves, will keep quail and par.
fridge on the preserves and insure . oon-
tinuance Of good shooting, but pheasants
be Ssi Kept tic sosstSSr :. sssl i'p 4 i.: .an V dsaisr
in live birds, who has in ysars past stocked
some OF the preserves with pheasants
procured in the West, believes the lack Of
natural food, such a. fields OF wheat stubble,
sSs sss %Ss@un Of he are Si fds TWO causes OF
Yet oddly enough he ID usually able
to All an order Tor live pheasants from the
estates Of two gentleman far ers near
Babylon who breed them to sell for pre-
under chickens. usually bantams or the
light silkiee. and keep them In large on
closures.
Phssssnts are bred in pens At the Rassa-
preague Club. on the Nlssequogue River.
a ass, . s% g With % Z sss P BIRDS, fh :r:
are but four members, who with their
guests get good sport, while pheasants are
also kept on the %. 900 acres Of tho Wyan-
danch Club. which also borders on the Mis-
But quail. partridge and an infreQuent
woodcock give the best shooting to the
Wyandanch members. Tho beet pheasant
shooting ID at the Robins Island Gun Club.
for they cannot migrate from their 1000
acre preserve. bounded BY Great and Little
The clubhouse overlooks the water and
Il will be crowded for the bird shooting
by the psmbers, who gather each season to |
range the island With gun and dog. Yet
the sSsf fin nest s ins Hst Ys"rs 3 sSs Eastern
field trials were held at Robins Island. and
the club 10 q regular importer OF quail,
which find oongenial home In the woodland
and ~shrubbery.
are ABUNDANT, especially on the pressrvsS.
President Otto Magnus and the thirty
nine members OF tho Long Island Country |
Club at Eastport enjoy the right ID shoot
on nearly 10000 acres, Of which thsy "
100.
The square miles of shooting cover much
Of the territory between Moriohes and
Weethampton. The club has Q kennel Of
bird dogs. and whom q member arrives
at the clubhouse all he needs to make
ready for sport 10 his gun.
The club has never turned out pheassnfs. |
but occasionally the stfays from other
preserves And their way into the game I,
bags.
preserves on both the south and north shore,
indeed one can hardly enter a field in
which signs are not displayed f~orbiddinG
shooting or trespassing. There 10 stil
be hired ct the outlying villages who know
to find IL. i
The birds son get very wild In the fusil-
lade Of guns that follows the opening OF
the season; the coveys OF quail hat the
or scattered, and TO get Q hot except at |
q single bird 10 40 bard - to Ind . needle