Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-10

A LTHOUGH tales of twenty-five
n inch brook trout are numerous
n and accounts are daily rehearsed
of nimrods who take delight in dis
patching timber wolves with their
hands or Of slaughtering grizzly bears
with 22-caliber rifles, few in number
are the hunters who have even bagged
or seen a ram with two large, we'll de-
veloped sets of horns. One of this de-
scription however, or at least the head
and horns of the same. came to the
attention of Fred jerks, a Los Angeles
taxidermist. jerks Immediately mount
ed the head, which had been carefully
preserved and now treasures the
trophy as a much priced possession.
The ram, however, was of the domestic
variety and formerly fed within few
miles of Madison, Wis, leading for
many years most healthy and well
cared for existence.
Although but few deer have been
killed during the past three weeks,
1t is believed by every nimrod that
from now on this most fascinating
of all kinds of hunting will prove more
prolific throughout everv section. The
deer have been feeding by night, and
despite the fact that in many sections
tracks are numerous, the few bucks
which have been jumped were found
mainly In the dense brush. Does and
fawns appear to be greatly on the in
crease, and next seasons shooting
should be better than that which has
been afforded during the past few
years.
~ fCfa Mt a
of the Los Angeles Athletic club, is
surf fishing at Playa del .Rey.
]. w Dowdle and a party Of seven
recently left Los Angeles in a large
automobile armed with seven guns and
sufficient ammunition to slay every
deer in the Sierra Madre mountains
and every dove which ever flew in
Southern California. Although the
party gave out no definite information
as to their destination, 1t was learned
from a reliable authority that the
region in which they proposed TO exc
cute their designs upon wild animals,
which they didn't meet, was infested
with a large and particularly venemous
variety of boa constructors. Be that as
II may history tells us that this
bunch returned to the Angel city re-
freshed. perhaps physically, but with
game bags furless and featherless Not
a dove did they bag, not a deer met
his doom, but it was stated yesterday
by member of the party who wished
his name withheld, that a wagon load
of constructors was en- route for Los
Angeles.
w. L. Rahb. Tom williams, Joe
Amestoy. Frank Stephens and Ed
Green Of Hollywood have returned from
a days dove shooting on Amestoy's
n n
Every member of the party secured the
limit. and Rabb stated that the birds
were so numerous that a person who
had never fired a shotgun before could
have done the same by sitting down
and discharging enough shells into the
air. IT is hardly probable that this
was the reason for the success of the
expedition.
A. W. Morse put in Sunday angling
for surf fish at Hermosa Beach. Morse
reported the fishing as being extremely
poor, but few parties taking more than
three or four fish.
George Cline, Dave Martin, John
Jeffries and Ed Salisbury have re-
turned from a few days dove shooting
at Charlie Patton's ranch near Ros-
monde. every member Of the party Sc
curing the full number of birds which
the law allows during each days
hunting. Martin, whose fame as a
wing shot has not been spread outside
Of Los Angeles, so astonished the other
members of the party with his re-
marlable work that they believe he Is
without equal in Southern California.
"I never saw him miss a bird" said
Cline land we stand ready to back him
against any marksman In the world. 1t
he can break blue rocks the way he
rtysn a world
without question" Martin uses a 20
gauge frearm, and strongly advocates
the use of the smaller bore shotguns
for wing shooting.
w. II. Brown, j. A. Brown and Arlle
Gibson returned yesterday with Two
fat bucks as the result of a weeks
deer hunt near the head of Topango
canyon. J. A. Brown shot the first
deer, a spike buck, in a canyon bot
tom. The party reports that deer
signs are very numerous throughout
the entire region in which they hunted,
and believe that during the next few
weeks the hunting should be vastly i'm
proved.
w. e. Gresham landed a fair string
of surf fish yesterday near San Pedro.
Joe Bagus killed seventeen doves in
a few hours shooting Sunday after
noon at Willowbrook.
Many good sized catches of brook
trout have been taken during the past
few weeks in the vicinity of Glen AL
pine Springs, Lake Tahoe.
w. e. Thompson of Los Angeles has
returned from the Calabasas region
with a three-point buck as the reward
of a few days hunting.
l.. M. Iidster and c. r. Thorne
killed thirty-five dozen doves between
them and a ton. more or less. of cot