The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-12
REPORTS INDICATE
BlROS ARE PlEs Y Ill
h
SpoTismen All Over State are
Setting Their Hunting
Outfit IN Order

Only three days now remain until
tse opening Of the quail season in
Oklahoma and already the sports
men all over the state are getting
their hunting equipment in order so
as TO lose no time in getting into
the field after the season opens. In
territorial days the quail season in
Oklahoma opened on October 10, but
under the new game law now in force
It commences on November Is and
ends February /, or rather it begins
On November l.. as the attorney gen
eral as ruled that the provision de-
Ining the open season as being be-
tween those two date1 excludes both
OF them
From all reports the quail will be
unusually plentiful this year. The
weather has been dry and severe
transforms, which are most destruc-
tive to the young birds, have been
lacking. The more rigid game laws
have also given them greater protec-
tion and the illegal capture or ship
ment of quail has now been reduced
almost to the minimum. Under ex-
listing conditions the birds have be-
come so tame that the lob White
whistle can be heard around the out
skirts of any town, and the sight OF
a quail sounding its call from tele-
phone pole or chimney top in the
heart OF the towns is not unusual.
The est There is
Quail shooting in Oklahoma Is con-
sidered by devotees OF the sport to
be the acme of life in woods or field.
In Oklahomas mild climate the air
is just cool enough to set the blood a
tingle without being cold enough to
cause any discomfort to the hunter,
and the thought of following a brace
OF we'll trained dogs through the
bhown fields and hedgerows. where
the little brown birds are easy to
find and fat from their feasting on
grains and berries, cause the city
man WHO has ever felt its exhilration
To lose interest in Office or store dur
ing the season Wen others are
afeld.
In the earlier days prairie chicken
shooting was the great sport all over
Oklahoma, but with the advent OF
civilization they have been pushed on
West. so that = Is necessary now to
go to the sparsely settled counties OF
Western Oklahoma TO find them, and
even then they are by no means
plentiful. To assist In preventing
their determination the game law has
shortened the season from September
4 NArAA,har 4 a haU
limit of fifteen in one day or 100 IN
n season.
p 10 chiffon nisspnearing
Even at that. however they are
rY, ulsa ar, I. It happened
that they were the most numerous
in the sections where 1t was hardest
to enforce the game laws and in a
part of TIE state where in addition to
native gunners, pot hunters from
otner states poured across the bor-
der to assist In the destruction. Two
hunters recently secured the prairies
of Harper county for two days and
got oni foriv chickens. A few years
aeo thrt many birds could easily have
been killed in half day. In fact
the birds we're pest 10 the few farm
ers who were living in that part fof
the state and they welcomed fne
tnnters who came 90 kill them Or
ten as many as 400 or 500 birds
would rise from one field.
Snipc, Plover and Ducks
Even without the quail, the hunt
ers have had plenty OF chance to
keep their guns from getting rusty.
The season for snipe, plover and
ducks has been on since August Is,
and there has been plenty of chance
for the hunting of these birds and es.
pecially of ducks. Farmers In Cana
dian county have been complaining.
that the ducks are so numerous and
rayenous that they have been eating
the young wheat. The beginning of
cold weather has been driving all OF
the migratory birds southwark and
all of the rivers and ponds have been
thick with them at various times.
The most notable duck shooting IN
Oklahoma is found on the Salt Plains
in Alfalfa county, where the number
that can be killed when conditions
are right is bounded only by the linn
II imposed by the law.
Deer, Turkeys and Bears
Graham Burnham, who probably
knows more about game conditions inI
Eastern oklahoma than any other
man III the state, reports that tur-