The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-14
YOU MAN WITH THE GUN.

| Tomorrow II VIII be legal 70 kill deei
providing you have the necessary H.
cense. No committee passes upon
your eyesight, your nerves or your
brains. You may take a gun in your
hands. load it with a bullet that is
45-lOOths OF an inch in diameter by
one inch in length with so grains OF
smokeless powder 10 push it along
and with this you may shoot at any
thing that appears like deer.
In the early morning light or in the
deceptive twilight or the sunrise fog,
you are apt to picture deer where none
really are.
We known something Of this deer
hunting game, observes Editor George
Newett Of the Ishpeming Iron ore,
because we used to do a lit
tie Of it when hunters were much
less numerous than now. We know
that the imagination plays strange
pranks with facts. and this, too, when
no recourse is had 10 the hip pocket
flask or the brown jug cooling In the
spring.
You may have been stationed on
some deer runway I'm your experience
and have listened so attentively in
the silent woods for the cracking
brush signalling the approach Of a
deer that you actually thought you
heard the sound when in reality none
had been made? You may have i'm
agined you heard a deers football when
no deer was near. You may have i'm
agined you saw an object move when
in reality it was only an inanimate
stump
It's a queer business this sitting
alone in the big woods with the mind
all centered on the game and the Kill!
We have sat beside companions in
these forests Of the north and have ac-
tualy heard their hearts knocking
against their ribs in the excitement
caused by the slight rustling in the
leaves OF a little pine squirrel We
have seen men tremble with excite
ment when a pine cone fell TO the
ground so unstrung had their nerves
become from the strain OF intent lis
tening and watching.
We saw one man let a fine buck
walk away from him, the hunter for
getting all about his mission or his
rifle We saw another man shoot a.
gray horse thinking II a deer.
So we know the imagination pic
lures some wonderful sights for those
nervous men who hunt deer in the
north woods.
Every man should get a good grip
on himself before he goes into camp.
woods following combining business
duties. They are nervous when they
20 into camp and the excitement oil
the woods adds to the seriousness of
their condition.
Every hunter old or new, should
make up his mind 20 take no chances.
He should see clearly the object at
which he shoots. He should take no
risks in dull light or in fogs. He
should take plenty Of time TO make
sure. He should not fire at colors, or
sounds, or shadows. II will be better
10 let a hundred deer go unshot at
than to hit a man.
And don't bring a gun into camp with
a cartridge In the barrel or magazine. |
Don't load the gun until you get
away from camp.
Don't carry a loaded gun with the
pointing at anyone. Keep the
away from people
Don't carry gun at full cock
Don't pull a gun through a fence by
it's muzzle. Push II through muzzlc
first and then follow after. II anyone
Is ahead OF you put the gun through
sidewise
Always figure that the gun II load
ed
Have an accident policy with your
wife as beneficiary. Keep sober and
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