The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-09-10
MONTANA HUNTERS
GET GUNS READY
GAME WARDEN DE HART GIVES
A LIST OF OFFICIAL DATES
FOR VARIOUS GAME
Game is Plentiful this Year Except
ing for Elk and Grouse; Worlds
Of Duck Everywhere in Montana
Where There is Water; Gopher
Poison Gets Grouse.

Demand for hunting arms of all
kinds and for ammunition of all
sizes predicts a big slaughter when
the Montana hunting season opens.
Game is plentiful throughout the
state except to elk, which were
slaughtered and died from severe
winters and grouse lost in those sec
lions of the state where strychnine
was used in gopher poison, accord
ing to j. L. DeHart, state game and
fish warden. DeHart says the duck
season opening will be on Septem-
Der 16, according to the federal law,
and not September Is, according to
the state and that it will be en-
forced.
1.-THE outlook for deer is good in
all hunting sections of the state, but
that for elk is not SO good" DeHart
says. He says that between Oct. 1,
1917, and Oct. 1, 1919, survey of
elk in Montana showed a decrease of
1000 head and since then reports
show 400 head have been killed and
those which died, from starvation
during the winter have not been
counted.
The state law provides a limit of
one deer a season. The season is
from October to December /. How
ever, no deer may be killed in yell
lowstone, Rosebud, Custer, Richland,
Dawson, Valley, Roosevelt and Sher-
idan counties or new counties Great
ed from these counties.
The elk restrictions vary in diff
cnn - 49,
where, however, the limit is one per
season. The season opens October
Is and closes at different times in
different places. The law also pro-
vides that one additional elk may
be killed in Gallatin and Park coun-
ties on buying special license for
SIS.
Elk may be hunted and killed in |
Montana in Flathead, Glacier, Lin
coin, Pondera and Teton counties; |
in that portion of Beaverhead coun-
ty lying east of the Oregon Short
Line railway; in that portion of CAL
latin county south of the 46th paral-
lei; in that portion of Missoula coun-
ty drained by wataers of the Big
Fork of Flathead river; that part |
lying east of Belmont creek from its
source north of the Big Blackfoot
river and east of the confluence of
Belmont creek with the Big Black
foot river at west end of the Nine
Mile prairie, and that portion
drained by streams flowing into
Swan lake; in that portion of Powell
county lying north of the north fork
of the Big Blackfoot river. The
open season in territory is from Oc-
tober 1 5 to December 1.
In addition, elk may be hunted
and killed in Carbon, Madison, Park,
saltwater and Sweet Grass counties;
IN that portion of Beaverhead county
lying west of the Oregon Short Line
in that portion of Gallatin
county lying north of the 46th paral-
eel. The open season Is from Octo-
Der Is to December 25. Elk also
nay be hunted in Fergus, Mineral,
3ava1li and Wheatland counties; in |.
Granite county except strip lying
south of He'll Gate river, saaid strip
)eing 20 miles wide and extending
L5 miles west from the station of
Jimrod; all of Lewis and Clark {
lying north of the Dearborn
liver; all of Powell county lying
forth of the north fork of the Black {
DOT river. The open season is Octo- I
Ter Is to October 25.
There are world of ducks in !
very place in Montana where there
S water, and the season is from Sep I
ember 16 to November 80. The
INIT on grouse, prairie chicken, fool .
len, pheasant, partridge and sage 4
ZEN is five a day and the season O
rom September Is to December L.
here is no limit on wild geese and o
rant. The season is from Septem- s
er 16 to December /. v
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