The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-22
THEY HUNT THE DEER
WITH BIG AUTOMOBILES
A Novel Substitute For The Hounds
Usually Used BY Country Club
SpOrtsmen.

AS the deer shooting season II
growing short, local rifle packers are
striving hard to secure their limit
bag, which is two bucks. j. G. Neal
on has the honor of having killed
the largest deer of the season, which
fell to his rifle last Sunday, and as
there is still another big fellow on
the ranch where his last deer waXed
fat, Nealon expects to return with his
carcass shortly. Owing to the de-
mand for venison steaks THE year
the friends of the sportsman who
were too late to share in the division
of the big buck, are in hopes that
success will crown his efforts.
Five fine deer have been bagged
since the opening of the season by
members of the Country club. The
Point Reyes club deer hunters man.
aged to drop four bucks, one of which
was bagged by Mr.. Newman, the pres
ident, at distance of 400 yards. The
Tamalpais club shooters have had
rather poor success up to date, but
they expect to account for some large
horn-packers during the running"
season. The San Rafael and Lucas
Valley clubs have had good deer
shooting. Messrs. Barr, Foster, De-
courtieux and one or two other rep
resentatives of the clubs have Sc
cured their respective limits of VEN
iSOn.
According to Billy Kittle, the
crack snipe shooter, the Country club
has evolved a rather unique system
of routing deer from the heavy I'M
dergrowth.
1--WE cannot use dogs for the pur-
pose of driving the bucks from the
gulches without transgressing the
law" said Kittle, "but we don't need
THE bow-wows any more. Our head
keeper hit upon a scheme which puts
a hound in the shade when it comes
to deer driving, and you will be sur
prised when | tell you what it is. You
know the fearful sound of some of
those automobiles when the driver is
in hurry to get to some point. Well,
our keeper drives the clubs big rae
ing auto along the road near the foot
of the ravines an "opens up the valve
for all it's worth. The members are
stationed on the ridges and when the
horn of the machine toots you should
see the deer, coyotes and jackrabbits
"By this novel scheme we killed
five fine bucks this season."
AS Mr. Kittle's veracity has never
been questioned, it is presumed that
in future, deer hunters will use the
auto ''hound" in lieu of the animal
that has been tabooed by law.
Some local sportsmen, who take
pleasure in dove shooting, report sat
isfactory results from outings in Sac
and Colusa counties. Last
week James Baggs, John Partington,
and Will Spencer returned from Will
liams in Colusa county, with limit
bags of "cooers." The hunters stated
that nay person who can shoot on the
wing is sure to bag limit during the
evening flight. Along the Salinas
river doves are very plentiful and the
sportsman who cares for the game
can enjoy splendid shooting a few
miles south of Salinas.
Not unlike some of the game and
fish laws that came from the last
legislature, it is now claimed by
prominent sportsmen that the hunt
ers' license law is defective in that
it does not license the gun. The fish
it is said, is about to
institute an investigation of the many
reports of the abuses of the new hunt
ing law. A resident of Oakland re-
Gently applied at the Office of the
county clerk for license, but as he
was not naturalized he was refused
a permit until he deposited $25.
the applicant stated that
a number of his acquaintances, who
were not citizens, had secured Ii
censes on payment of 81. 1t has also
been stated that in many instances
one license is purchased in the in
terest of other hunters. This is an
easy matter as the licenses take the
shape of larve metal tag, which is
required to be produced upon demand
as the tag does not contain deScrip-
ton of the owner it may be used by
tngifhetdwithttYS
any number of hunters without fear
of detection. The transfer of tags
will be common thing, when the
duck and quail season opens.
Judge Shortall and Lee Clark, a
well-known local sportsman, have
taken wings for the wilds of Modoc
county, where bear, lion and mule
deer are plentiful. The hunters for
big game intend to remain four weeks
in the mountains, during which time
they expect to kill some of the for
midable wild animals that are indig
enous to the region.