Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-10

| intervals. After each side had gone
perhaps half mile they would then
turn at wight angles. walk a mile
and then turn at right angles until
the two lines met, 40 that perhaps a
square mile OF territory would be
enclosed by tho beaters with the
| 10 To 10 men with guns NJ intervals
IN the line. When the square had
been forced the head keeper blew a
blast on his bugle and all turned
ana walked slowly toward the cen
ter and the hares were shot AK they
attempted to- break thru the line.
ON one day lust before left Ger
many | and members OF The EN-
haSsv shot more than two hundred
harcs on one OF these hunts. The
German hare Is an enormous animal
with dark meat. almost Impossible
TO distinguish from venison,
After these hare drives. OF course,
| paying the heaters their regular
wages. | used TO hold a lottery. xiv
| ing "a number of these hares as
prizes or distributing hareA to the
| magnates OF the village. such as the
pas.or the school teacher. tho po-
| liceman AGA the postmaster.
! when We were shooting I'm the
summer and autumn the peasants
were working In the fields. and one
had to be very CAREFUL IN shooting
roebuck with a high powered rifle.
II is customary TO hunt roebuck on
these flat plains from carriage. In
this way bullet, travelling at a
dL.nward angle, N the buck is
missed. strikes the ground within n
short distance. II one were to shoot
lying down, kneelinE or standing,
the danger TO peasants In the fields
would be very great. The pheasats
were som etimes shot over dogs, but
usually as the heaters drove small
woods "A pheasant driven and flyins
nigh makes n difficult mark. one
getting up before the dogs tx almost
too easy shot.
We shot the rabbitsby using fer
rets,, little animals like weasels
wearing ltle muzzles and bells upon
their necks. 10 the woods whore
the rabbits had their holes four or
five ferrets would be put In the rab.
bits holes and II was quite difficult
to shoot rabbits, as they came out
Like lightning. dodginR among tho
trees, In the early spring the
"hirkhohns" were shot, variety Of
black and white grouse There we're
some blinds or little hutS of twigs
erected near places where the
ground was beaten hard and on
these open, beaten spots early In
the morning the "birkhahAs" waltz,
doing a peculiar backward and for
ward dance In some way connected
with their marriage ceremonies,
There were also on this estate num-
. - a ~ 0.... a
only In spain. RumaniR, Asia Minor
and these plains Of the Mark OF
Brandenburg, large hustRrd called
by the Germans "trappe" These
birds were very shy and hard to
approach. Altho had several shots
, at them with a rife az four or five
getting one,
, How the German Sportsman Aims.
! In talking with the chancellor he
almost opened the conversation by
asking II ! had yet killed IA "trpppe.' >
As rule the German uses for
shooting deer and roehuck Ger
man Mauser military rifle, but with
1 the barrel cut down and sporting
/ stock with pistol grip added. on this
there is n powerful telescope. Many
! Germans carry a "ziel-stock." "A long
walking sticks. from tho bottom OF
which tripod' can be protrudedoand
| near the top "a sort Of handle piece
Of metal about as big as little FIN
/ ger. When the German sportsman
has sighted roebuck he plants his
/ aiming stick In the ground rests the
rifle on the side projection, carefully
adjusts his telescope. scts the hair
trigger on his rifle and finally
touches the trigger
Al the commencement OF the war
the duke or Ratlbnr collected all the
sporting rifles with telescopes and
sent them TO the front These were
OF the same caliber as the military
rifles and took the military cart
ridge. so they proved enormously
useful for sniping purposes.
| Going one day to proof estah-
| lishment to try a gun. ] opened by
mistake door which led TO great
room whore thousands OF German
military rifles were being fitted
with telescopes. These telescopes
have crossed wires, like those In n
surveyors instrument. and It Is only
necessary In aiming to fix the CEN
ter Of the crossed wt.es on the game
and pull the trigger. A clever ar
rangement enables the wires TO be
elevated FOR distant shooting.
! SO great IL the discipline OF the
German people that game on these
/ estates is seldom. II ever. touched
/ by the peasants There is no free
shooting In Germany. The shooting
rights OF every inch Of land are In
possession OF some one. and the tens
OF thousands OF gamekeepers CON
stantly killing the crows. hawks,
foxes and other birds and animals
that. destroy eggs and game make
the game plentiful. The keeper has
the right by law TO shoot any stray
dog or cat found n hundred yards
from n village. paid the head
keeper a certain sum per month. and
| In addition he received a premium
called shot money" for each bird
or roobuck shot He also received
premium for each fox or crow or
hawk he destroyed, bringing on the
first OF the month the beaks and
claws Of the hawks. etc, TO prove
his claim. Foxes are very plentiful
| In Germany. and on one winter on
this estate only twenty miles from
Berlin the keeper trapped or killed
twelve foxes.
The emperor is very fond of fox
shooting Foxes are driven out Of
the forest past his shooting stand by
heaters. and one Of the reasons why
pvince EuersteDfDtsrE WAS such fHV-