Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
MANY HUNTERS
AREAFTER DEER
Season Starts Today; Camps
in Adjoining Counties;
First Report

Deer season started to-day and
never in the history of hunting in
Pennsylvania has there been as
many local hunters out as were re-
ported to-day. Every train out OF
Harrisburg yesterday enroute to
mountains and deer haunts carried
local nimrods. If deer is plentiful
and reports claim they are, Harris
burg hunters promise some new rec
ords.
The PROCESS Gun Club, which is
headed by Lawrence Hetrick as
president, and j. B. Harlacker as
captain of the team, were boast1ng
proudly this morning that they were
among the first to get one of the big
ones.
At 8 o'clock this morning work
ing out from their sclub about five
miles from Shippensburg, Daniel
Raber, q member, shot a 250-pound
buck, with eleven prongs to his
antlers. Mr.. Raber. is from Progress
and counts himself among the very
lucky to have bagged Il buck so
early in the first day.
One hour after daybreak a tele-
phone message brought word that
two deer had been shot near Mt.
Holly. Local hunters who have a
camp near Pinegrove on arrival yes
terday in their autos found a big
buck grazing in a field directly in
front of their cabin and within rifle
shot. Many hunters were reported
in the vicinity of Chambersburg.
Franklin and Adams counties have
many camps. A dispatch from
Chambersburg says:
Bullets Fly
With fo-doutc tho annual
open season for deer hunting opened
and the mountains of Franklin
county are going to be mighty un-
safe for the casual traveller for fif-
teen days, with high velocity bullets
skittering around regardless. In the
South Mountain, between here and
Gettysburg, in Franklin, and Adams
counties, there are now located
thirty-four deer hunting camps and
it is a safe guess that 500 men are
now chasing the elusive bucks of the
Virginia red deer tribe through the
thickets and hills in that region,
while to the north. toward and in
Cumberland county, there are many
other camps.
Camps Everywhere
In the North or Tuscarora Noun
tains, toward McConnellsburg and
berson valleys, there are also many
camps but fewer than to the south
because, for some reason deer are
not as plenty in North Mountain as
in the South, just the reverse from
the facts as to wild turkeys. In
South Mountain hills and hollows
for months deer have been seen in
great herds, as high as forty in a
bunch being noted about South
Mountain Sanatorium grazing like
cattle on the flats.
Await Reports
Many of the clubs, of real sports
men, are composed of our best men.
Locked antlers, ensconsced in Quarry
Hollow; Fayetteville, not far away
from them; Biglerville, across the
line of Adams county; McKeesport,
composed of men from the gaseous
city; Harrisburg has fully forty
men in the mountains now or book
ed to come. 1t is said two women
are with a Pittsburgh and q Union
town club in the North Mountain.
BY tonight or tomorrow morning
the reports of kills will begin to fill
ter in and Captain John M. Runk,
one of the Kanes, Captain Carbaugh
or such dead shots, are sure to be
among the early lucky ones"
In order to prevent accidents the
State Game Commission has been
carrying on a campaign of educa-
ton. Here are some of the rules:
Rules For Hunters
Dress right. Wear brilliant red
on cap and back of coat.
2-Don't climb tree; you may be
mistaken for a bear.
S-Keep cool and wait. Don't
shoot into every moving bush and
cracking noise; always wait and see.
4-Stick to your own crew; other
crews don't need you to help kill
their deer.
5-Never knowingly Short stop"
another crew.
6-Any deer jumped by drivers
and killed by an outsider within the
range and scope of a crews watchers
belongs wholly to the crew on the
drive.
when two crews are driving
the same hill at the same time, the
deer belongs to the crew that hits it
with the first fatal shot.
S-The one who kills a deer in it's
tracks or places the first fatal shot
gets the head and hide. The meat
is shared equally among the men,
ber of the crew.
"a fatal shot is such that so
disables a deer or bear as to bring
it within the killing control of an
ordinary hunter, which, being imme-
diately followed by him would or
dinarily permit him to kill the deer
| or find it dead.
1O-Once the trail of a fatally
| wounded deer is abandoned for any
cause, it then becomes anybody's
deer.
IA lone still hunter is always
in grave danger and an acute men
ace to others. Always blow your
warning whistle as soon as you de-
| tect others approaching.
| 12-Never shoot in the direction
where you last saw or heard your
| drivers.
| 13-Don't shoot mark in the
hunting grounds or around the cabin.
14-Stay on your watch until
called off by the drivers.
15-Break your match in two be-
| fore you throw it away.