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Editor:
Here is the photographic evidence
that railroad men so-netimes slow
down. W. L. Wilson of Fcrt Worth
shown with the buck, has been a rail-
road man for 28 years, but he curbed
the momentum long enough last fall
to still hunt and bag this beautiful
18-point, 140-pounder.
Wilson, one of the finest sportsmen I
know, g>t the prize on lars adjoin-
ing the Moore Plantatior_ Wildlife Res-
toration area in Sabine County. Like
other land around similar areas, it is
populated by surplus game from the
protected zone.
Charles Boyd
Wildlife Biologist
Hem zhi, Texas
Denison Outdoor
Show Adds Features
This year's Denison Socrts Show,
slated April 8 through A-Dril 11, will
feature an extravaga-t 90-minu-e
stage sL-ow in additio- to the reg-
ular exhibits of hunting, fishing, and
boating equipment.
An added attraction for the first
time will be the Texas Game and
Fish Commission's exhibit of live
fish and game.
John Clift, who made the a--
nouncement, said there would be
performances of the stage show each
night, with matinees scheduled Sat-
urday and Sunday afternoons. The
show will feature Bill Carter, trick{
caster, and the Al Conner Troup,
which boasts 43 trained animals.
Twenty-four exhibitors, including
14 national concerns, will have
booths at the show, Clift said.
The show, to be held in the new
High School Gymnasium, will open
at 5 p. m. Friday, April 8.Archer's Suggestion
Editor:
I am an archer, but I do not think a
special bow season for deer, as outlined
in a recent issue, is an absolute neces-
sity. I think a practical plan could be
worked out between the bow hunters
and the landowners.
I have an idea that scattered over
the state there must be quite a number
of ranchers who do not allow deer hunt-
irg with scopes and long-range rifles,
perhaps for conservation reasons or the
safety of livestock. Yet these ranchers,
if properly approached, might be glad to
sell hunting leases to bow hunters with
their primitive, short-range weapons
and stealthy, unobtrusive method of
hunting.
Such landowners might send in their
names, general location of their prop-
erty, and how they might be contacted
and this information could be pub-
lished in Texas Game and Fish. Deer
hunting archers then could make con-
tacts and arrange for permits or leases.
This would necessitate no change in
laws through action of the Legislature.
I am sure the bow hunters would co-
operate to. maintain the ultimate in
rancher-hunter relations in a sincere
effort to establish and perpetuate bow
hurting in Texas.
Port Little
Box 52
Aransas Pass, Texas
(A bill providing for a ten-day spe-
cial season for archers preceding the
regular deer and turkey season was in-
troduced in the House of Representa-
tives. At press time it had received a
favorable report from the House com-
mittee but had not reached a vote on
the floor.)
(Whether or not this bill becomes
law, Little's suggestions seem to have
merit. Texas Game and Fish will be
glad to print names of landowners will-
ing to permit archers to hunt deer.
However, we feel that archers and
landowners could make contact much
more satisfactorily through their own
local newspapers or organizations.)- r
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Hunter's Position?
(:A. D. Thompson., Arlington, recently
asked where a deer hunter would wind
up in relation to his hunting camp if
he left there at sunup and followed
his shadow until sundown. Here is one
answer.)
Editor:
I believe that the hunter would be
seven miles and 559-plus yards from
camp in a direction five degrees north-
east.
I assume that a good hunter would
travel about one and one-half miles
per hour, that the sun makes a round
circle of 25,000 miles in 24 hours, and
that the sun rises at 7:30 at the start
of the hunting season and sets at 5:30.
Since, like Thompson, I'm just sort
of a "cowpuncher," I can't guarantee
anything much. But I'll bet I can kill
a buck with my .270 from that spot to
the spot where the fellow would be.
A. H. Ray
Florence, Texas
Bugle Beat
Editor:
Hunters might be interested in know-
ing of a tradition of a friend and
fellow hunter of mine, Bruno Schwab,
64, of Comal, near New Braunfels. He
has been hunting for 40 years on and
around the Franklin Schaefer ranch,
which adjoins my lease on the Benno
Schmidt ranch.
A few days after the deer season
opened this year, my three hunting
companions, Jean Kneuper, Ben Tolle,
and Walter Mueller were surprised to
hear a bugle blow a short taps, fol-
lowed by three shots, then the blowing
of full taps. So I told them the story
behind it.
Schwab for years has carried an old
World War I bugle, and he blows taps
before and after shooting each deer.
He also blows reveille the first morning
in hunting camp to open the season,
and it can be heard in hunting camps
over a wide range.
He and his tradition have become
widely known throughout the commu-
nity, and we feel privileged to share it.
Jerome Fischer
1064 Comal Avenue
New Braunfels, Texas
Landowners Write
(Texas Game and Fish in the past
has printed a number of letters from
hunters who complained about the high
cost of hunting leases. It seems only
fair to present the landowners' side,
too. So here are a couple of sample
letters.)
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