Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-09-27

them on vagrant thoughts that have
fitted through his mind as his feet
are propped on a mahogany desk
bought and paid for by the taxpayer.
On the contrary, the duck regulations
are based on some Of the most exact
and impartial scientific research done
in wildlife-and only after every fac
tor and consideration has been calmly
weighed.
Slaughter Checked
You'll hear hunters talk. and boast,
of the good. old days when there
But if those good old days" had
continued for many years, the water
fowl of the nation would have been
museum specimens only. When in those
days there was no uniform protection
for migratory birds hunters of every
state Wed with each other in the reck-
less killing of these creatures.
Single crews Of market hunters,
usually consisting of only two shooters
and man to handle boat and de-
coys, often bagged more than 500
ducks day. Hunting was permitted
not only in the fall but in the spring.
And every time bird was shot in
the spring, a brood of yet unborn
young ones died too. for at that time
they are on their way north for nest
ing. Public opinion was finally aroused
and in 1914 the federal migratory bird
law came into being. 1t was a help,
but had many loopholes. Then in 1913,
this country signed with Great Britain
the migratory bird treaty, giving mi
gratory birds uniform projection III
the United States and Canada. Later
Mexico signed the treaty and Jnres
nations were banded together for the
protection of your migratory birds.
No Market Hunting
Out of this market hunting was out
| lawed. spring shooting was forbidden
later regulations limited the typeS OF
firearms, and the federal government
was given the power to regulate hunt
ing, set the seasons, protec. CERTAIN
species and set bag limits. Since that
time the duck floCks have increased,
slowly at first. but in recent yeals
fairly rapidly.
It's been long fight to get the
ducks and geese back up to where
the seasons could be hberallzed as
has been done for this fall. The con-
tlnued cooperation OF sportsmen and
officials Will improve the situation
even more and though there will never
again be such slaughter as in the good
old days game men say that in flu
ture years there will be plenty OF ducks
for all.
Take a look at what the hunter for
a 50 license and 81 duck stamp can
do this fall. He can shoot each day
from Oct. | through Nov. % from
sunrise until 4 p. N. His daily bag
limit on ducks IS 10 and on geese :.
Possession limit is 20 on ducks and 6
on geese. And they may be possessed
Tor 20 days after the close of the
season, meaning until Dec. 10 in Mon
tana. And everyone says the ducks
are to be had, so it should be a sue
ceSsful season.
New Starting Time
There are several regulations that
game officials are emphasizing. They
remind you that shooting starts at
sunrise this year, not at a. m, and
suggest that hunters procure sunri.e
charts so they will have the correc,
start of shooting time for each day
They point out that the goose limit
is three this year instead Of four
Those are new regulations, but there
are still the old ones to remember
such as repeating shotguns. either
hand-operated or automatic, must
have the magazine plugged SO as to
reduce the capacity of the gun to
three shells, that is two in the maya
zine and one in the barrel: that the
use of live decoys or bait to lure
birds is prohibited and that no guns
larger than 10 gauge may be fired.
So pick out your duck blind on one
of eastern Montana'S myriad OF pot