Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-08
done the same with 4 htghpower rifie
because he knew chuckS and hunted
accordingly.

DR.. H. Is one IT the most suc-
cessfAl deer hunters of our AcQue4Nt-
lance. For years he has gona u the
biz woods for couple ct EweekAA ana
never fails to secure the quota Of deer
allowed him by Law. and sometimes
sisting others Of his party to secure
lthetra. doc" never eees his 40 odd
until he cleans and oils It up q tho
TRIPS ~ vary mediocre TARGET S1hot,
in fact would be termed . poor shot
Il he could be inducAd 70 give N ex-
whether his deer II running 81 etand-
tng. he seldom misses sssf@s
One day we coaxed him to 80 Ter
g quail hunt and chow IA how e Maa
done: To shorten the 20
WEIGHED he Doc mis- hi sseasath
we turned TO him and said: ri
Doc how 10 It that while Vim
q rife you can kill q deer 10 Ia n
running from you. vel, on these birds
with your old Zulu which matst xtve
a six foot pattern ct 50 yards. you are
absolutely the most rottsa wing sho<.
We'll. satd Doc. as no at aos.p On
q log and filed his pipe. yoQ know
I was thinking about that mynaN.
Overlooking your base i~Aatnnstipn 90
to my $500 Franz-PromAer heinz 1
Zulu. I figure It like this In the
woods ! know deer and deer. dgnI
deer may do for I have sort cf
mental, picture Of him doing 1t and an
prepared for 1t. Here. on these birds,
which ! have never hunted Do any
extent, ! cannot figure Just what -
soing to happen. II expect q
he goes skimming the Eround or tho
reverse. Yes. it's lack a& expeEance.
boy"
We have in mind another oce4sAoQ
in which the above condtttc1a were
exactly reversed,
in his day was the pren9ier ionr
range military rine shot of this Sor
any other country. and who. by the
way. was the most deadly and W-
erring wing shot with a shotgun on
quail, grouse or duck.s We have eyer
met.
The Best CT Fun1ed.
Winder and the writer were MEM
bers Of a party who were guests Of a
duck club in Michigan, During our
The members of our party ware sta
toned at various points about d
slaching which lay between two
swanps and a drive was made TO mart
the deer from one swamp to tho
other.
full of confidence n enthusiasm,
armed with an automatic rita, with
an extra filled clip in his pocket. Be-
fore leaving camp he had sighted in
his rife, placing rapidly Ave shots
through an ordinary playing card at
thirty yards. :
In due time at wfnder,s station we
heard the shooting begin. With q
fine. even cadence like q nan mailing
q board on q fence the first five shots
were spaced and after q short interval
in which a new clip was being in
serted. followed by SIX more.
Hurriedly we scrambled across to
but upon arrival found the colonel
dazedly looking for the lost clip
which he had in his haste thrown out
on the ground, but never a sign of the
deer. The deer had run In a half
circle around one of the most expert
rife and shotgun shots In the world
within nifty yards, never receiving q
scratch from n of h eleven shots
fired. Excited? No. That bounding.
dancing. bucking deer was simply
presenting an unusual picture to an
inexperienced hunter, Yet that I'M
mar had bagged more grouse and
ducks than all the combined eight
men of the rest Of the party. He was
q bit touchy afterwards on the sub
ject of his first experience with deer.
What we wonder is, would u
greatest rife authoritieS' consider
he was equipped with too low or too
high power in his rifle.
If we were giving advics, We would
say do not be toe fussy about dis
cardine your psf arm on the strength
Of discussion of velocity, shocking
power or description Of one-shot re-
suits. In selecting a rife for pour
hunting trip take the one thnt-appeals
to- you. A few grains weight OF bull
let or Of foot seconds velocity more
or less win not change tina n1tamAAe
results, especially il placed right.
As an old philosophical netEhbor of
ours once remarked: ut all depends
upon which way . tack 70 potzyted as
to what It will do whom you nit
down.