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SEVENTH YEAR- NUMBER 6

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Hamby Wins

Storm Gives

Another at

Fast Shooting

Gainesville

On Hens

GAINESVILLE, Ga.- Shooting

OCTOBER HIGH TIDES

true to form, Charlie Hamby, of Atlanta, captured the iron sight aggregate of the Gainesville Srna!lbore Rifle Tournament here September 29 with. a score of 798x800. He had 59 shots in the X ring.
On his first string of 40 shots

Oct. 10, 7:03 a.m., 7.6 feet. Oct. 11, 7 :47 a.m., 8.0 feet. Oct. 12, 8:31 a.m., 8.2 feet. Oct. 13, 9:18 a.m., 8.3 feet. Oct. 14, 10:07 a.m., 8.1 feet. Oct. 15, 11:01 a.m., 7.8 feet. These times are for Savannah River entrance (Tybee, Ga.). For

at 50 yards, Hamby made 36 Xes
out of a possible 40, which is within one of the 9-year world record.
Hamby also took the Any Sight Aggregate with 795x800 and 47 Xes. The Atlanta marksman failed to hit the diminutive 10 ring only 7 times out of 160 shots. Despite his remarkable score, Hamby barely nosed out Worth D. Nowlin, of Chattanooga, a comparative newcomer but right at the top among the nation's srnallbore shooters. John Barr, of Oteen, N. C., won the Expert Medal, and Nowlin annexed the Sharpshooter Medal. Hamby grabbed first place in the Master class.

other points add minutes as follows: Savannah 33; Thunderbolt 35; Isle of Hope 50; Montgomery 45; Warsaw Sound 04; Ossabaw Sound 09; St. Catherine's Sound 21; Brunswick Outer Bar 09; Hilton Head, S. C. 01.
An unscheduled tropical storm overturned the September tables and pushed tides high over the grasses to give marsh hen hunters along the Carolina. and Georgia coast unexpectedly fast action, according to reports of game protectors and wildlife rangers.
Nine-foot tides replaced the scheduled under-eight in many areas, and dislodged clapper rails furnished plenty of action. The

Forty-two of the South's -great-

best shooting carne on September

est riflemen participated in the

28, 29 and 30, from . three to four

tournament. They were from

days later than the charted spring

Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee,

tides.

Alabama and Florida. Hal Drake,

Many inland hunters who cus-

of Atlanta, was official referee

tomarily greet the first tides,

for the Nationa! Rifle Association. Mrs. Drake was statistical officer

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and scorer, assisting Gabe Jarrard, of the Gainesville Club.

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TARHEEL LICENSES
TOTAL $500,238
RALEIGH, N. C.-Hunters and fishermen in North Carolina paid $500,238 for licenses during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946.

CLOSE-UP OF A GRAY SQUIRREL, SPORTING TARGET FOR THE RIFLEMAN.

Early Dove Shooting Doe Says: You can keep your matches dry in wet weather by placing them
Is Spotty Over South in an empty 16-gauge shell and
slipping a 12-gauge shell over it. To assure the matches striking,

FOR VIOLATORS
GEORGETOWN, S. C. - The managers of Rice Hope and Kinloch Plantations in Georgetown county are offering a $300 cash reward for evidence leading to conviction of anyone hunting deer at night on lands east of U. S. Highway 17 between Georgetown and North Santee River.
J . H. Staples, manager of Rice H,ope, said that night hunt'ers have virtually depleted the supply of whitetails in this section.

even in a driving rain, dip the

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER?

business ends in finger-nail polish. Doves are still fast and tricky targets, capable of carrying Flocks have not concentrated with TALBOTTON, Ga.-Ranger H.

_ -D_oc_Je_nki_ns_. _ _ _ _ __ , lead after absorbing a hard wallop.

the purpose of "sticking" to any H. Barnes says he checked the

notable extent.

fishing license of Ray Crawford.

This is one thing Southern hunt- From all directions carne hunt- of .Columbus, and found that it

ers agreed upon after returning ers with reports of one day's sat- read the same backward and for-

to the stubble and grain fields for isfactory gunning, but little or no ward. The number was 34443.

an early baptism of the 1946 season. But they are very much di-

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! that have applied to dove hunting
in recent years.

Strip Tease

Some gunners are arguing that
I baited fields should be legalized;
many shoot over bait regardless of the regulations.

Eternity was just a pup

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When nature pulled the curtain up.

Cave man, Persian, Greek and Roman

SAVE THOSE CRIPPLES- This adult dove was grounded when a Georgia hunter tipped its wing. The bird fell over I00
yards from the gun and would have been lost without a springer spaniel. The dog riosed through heavy weeds and retrieved the bird. A retriever will save many ducks, quail and doves that would otherwise be wasted.

I In some areas dove hunterlli in- I
sist that September hunting is !j
too late; others say it's too early.
And just as far apart are the "population" experts. One group says there are no doves and the other extremists swear there are

Knew her as a master showman; Paul Revere and Bonaparte Marveled at" her cosmic art; And the lady has a way With her audience today. Strip-tease co-nnoisseurs will please Take a seat among the trees;

millions of them.

Nature now presents October, The world's most colorful disrober.

1 RETU.RN TRIPS FAIL September shooting in most Southern states has been spotty.

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have been striking despite the rise in temperatures.

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to this sport on recent week-ends, although my luck was not always good.

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deer hair. They are imitations of the size of bug and weight of rod.

everything from moths to young 4. Try a solid white bug about

bullfrogs.

dusk. You'll be surprised.

Weather and water have lots to 5. A black bug will work well

I do with the lure that should be in dingy or consistently muddy

l offered bass. It is quite under- water.

, standable that a fish feeding on 6. When the water is a mirror,

young frogs should be more try a deer hair bug slowly and

' easily fooled with an imitation of quietly.

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"Boys, this is my Santee Special. When I cast one out, it_will bring the other one in."

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. the frog than with an artificial 7. Play your bugs slowly. The Good Bass Catch
I bee. Frog bugs will kill bass in slower you work .them, the harder HIGH FALLS 'LAKE, Ga.-S.
August and September when they the bass will hit. There are ex- S. Sington, of Jackson, was top miss in June and July. Reason for ceptions, of course, and if a slow man of the day here recently
II this is there are no luscious young bug won't work, speed up your re-
frogs in midsummer that will in- trieve.

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on lily pads, you may be sure bass the peak feeding periods.

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1 are taking them.

9. Don't become a one-bait fish-

/ This is just an example of using erman. There are times in the

: horse sense, of offering something early spring and late fall when a
.that resembles as closely as pos- spinner and bucktail take fish Isible the food which is being where a surface bug fails to score.

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10. Learn to play both top and

Assuming that you agree with underwater baits. Un-til you do,

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stumps, rocks, bushes and other

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I JONAH' SURVIVES
DARKEST JOURNEY
MOULTRIE, Ga.- Edward L. Lloyd, garage operator here, be: lieves he is probably the only
! owner of a pet minnow. Lloyd
1 came into possession of Jonah when a friend gave him a large pickerel.
"I began cutting the jack," Lloyd said, "and Jonah jumped out of its mouth. I placed him in a bowl with gold fish and he's been there several days."
Jonah apparently is happy and none the worse from his experiences.
Darwin Gets Lunker In Daddy's Creek
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Cosby Darwin, of Chattanooga, recently hooked into and landed a largemouth bass weighing 10 pounds 10 ounces after being drawn. The big fish was caught in Daddy's Creek in middle Tennessee. Darwin was using a Hawaiian wiggler with a piece of pork rind.

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Kemp Voted

Georgia's Best Tennessee All Out for Deer CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Tennessee deer hunters are elated at the announcement of Howell Buntin, director of

game and fish, that the Volunteer state's deer restoration

On Stripers program will be accelerated with Pittman-Robertson funds.
Buntin is negotiating for a game technician to manage the new program and is now trying to purchase 200 white-tails

for brood stock. "There is no reason why Tennessee should

not have thousands of deer and I'm working toward that MILLEN, Ga.-Jewel Kemp is

end," said the direct01;.

this town's nomination as the

A few hundred deer have been Authority would soon abandon its champion striped bass fisherman

released in the Prentice Cooper hatchery program in favor of one of Georgia.

area near Chattanooga and in the that provides for the fertilization During 31 days in August Kemp

Ca~oosa Game Management Area,. of the lake bottoms to provide caught nine "rocks" in the Ogee-

in middle Tennessee in the past more fish food. The biologists chee River and seven were taken

few days. The deer are raised at have concluded that it does no with rod and reel.

the Cheatham County Gazy~e Farm good to restock waters which do The smallest w e i g h e d two

in Cheatham county and are re- not have sufficient food to sup- pounds and the largest 28 1-2.

leased in these state managed port the fish population already Kemp was fishing with live bait

areas as they reach the stage existing in them. Some of the when he boated stripers weighing

where they can shift for them- lakes, notably Chickamauga, near 20 1-2 and 211-2 pounds.

selves in the wild. The project has Chattanooga, abound with carp His catches were witnessed by

STRIPER KING-Jewel Kemp, of

not yet been officially approved by and other rough fish. Some means Ranger E. L. Scott, of Midville.

Millen, is Georgia's champion

the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, to remove the over supply of Kemp's performance is consid- striped bass fisherman. Here he

but Buntin says he does not an- rough fish will be devised, prob- ered remarkable and unusual, in- holds a 21-pounder which he caught

ticipate any opposition on the part ably sceining, so that food will be asmuch as the "run" of striped in the Ogeechee River on a Creek

of the federal authorities.

available for the bass and other bass is supposed to end in late Chub Pikie, while Junior Kemp won-

. CLUB REVIVAL A movement is on foot to re-
vive the defunct Sportsman's Club

game species. SHLELDS RESIGNS
A. Randolph Shields, fish biologist of the Tennessee Depart-

spring.
Fishermen in this section believe that Kemp's nine rockfish in

ders why the crowd is coming.
one month is a record for a Georgia fisherman.

on Wolftever Creek, an arm of ment of Conservation, has re-

Chickamauga Lake near Chatta- signed. In a letter directed jointly nooga. The club has been dormant to Paul S. Mathes, commissioner, since the war and because of the and Howell Buntin, director of outbreak of hostilities never game and fish, Shields charges

Hunt in Style

reached the self-supporting stage. the department with "lack of in-

It is planned to pay off a mort- terest," "gross negligence," etc.,

gage on the land and change the in handling the fisheries program

name of the club to the Wolftever of the state. Shields joined the

Fishing Club. The club property department in 1939, helped work

is located on a section of the lake up an overall fisheries program,

where its facilities are sorely took leave of absence te enter

needed.

military service in 1944, and re-

CHAMPION CASTER

turned to civilian life only a few

Ted Henson, representing the months ago. His letter of resigna-

Chickamauga Fly & Bait Casting tion stated that he would remain

Club and the newly formed Sports- in Tennessee and continue re-

man League, both of Chattanooga, search work in fish culture.

recently became a world's champion bait caster. Participating in

Skunk

Takes

Steps;

the Southeastern Casting Tourna- Samaritan Doesn't

ment at Knoxville on August 11, LYNCHBURG, Va.-Sunday

Ted threw a 5/8 ounce plug 244 school picnic leader Walter C. Mc-

feet using a regular stock rod, Gill of Lynchburg, will think

level wind reel and nine-pound twice before he again befriends a

test line. The previous record for wild animal - especially if said

this type tackle was 226 feet, and animal is black and wears a white

has stood since 1941. In addition stripe down its back. Here is the

to this new record, Ted took third story of his sad experience as re-

prize in the accuracy fly event, lated by the Sportscaster and

third in the skish event and tied passed on by the Sportsmen's

second place in hte 5/8 ounce accuracy only to be beaten in the playoff by a caster from Wetumpka, Ala.

Service Bureau: Several children brought up a
skunk in distress, its head caught in a jelly jar. Compassionate Mc-

NEW FISH THEORY

Gill cracked the jar with a rock.

Sen. James A. Pope, Director of Mistaking his motive the skunk

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who have jumped the dates and

South Shows Way
By WILLIAM VOIGT, JR.
Assistant Executive Director IJ:aak Walton League of America

fudged a little on the honest gun toter.
There are two things about
P o t these violations that I cannot un-
derstand. One is the type of man who calls himself a sportsman,

"Sure I We do a little fishing, sometime I "
Shots at Shooting
By B. M. ATKINSON, JR.

The South has learned a hard lesson in soil conservation practices and yet will go into the fields

that have a heavy impact on game and fish. Unless an unforeseen set- ahead of the opening days and LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Judging from the number of doctors prospect- .

back occurs, within a few years the South may be cited as a shining example to other, more backward parts of the country. The great Middle West grain belt, in particular, may well look to the South and get going a bit faster on its own soil saving program, if it doesn't want to find itself going the route that led to the trek of the Okies

try to kill all the game that gets up in front of his gun. He is stealing just like the man who slips into your room at night and steals

ing for mother lodes of No. 8 shot in their patients' terrains, the dove season is in full swing. It opened on Sunday up here in Kentucky, which made it convenient. While the sinners of the family were afield, the Christian members were in church praying that

from the dust bowl territory a decade ago. This business of pointing to the South, my homeland, as a shining
example of progressiveness for other parts of the United States to

money out of your pocket. He is just as certainly a thief as the

their relatives would not be mistaken for bird or beast and wind up over somebody's mantel piece.
Though: we love to hunt, we always take care to spend the

emulate, gives me a peculiar satisfaction, mixed with sorrow and im- man who would steal shotgun opening day of any season in the bowels of some building far from

patience. Satisfaction, because in years past I have listened more than shells out of your game bag.

the near-sighted nimrod and his indiscriminate trigger finger. We

once to slurring, only partly good natured references to my native Many of the people who steal were mistaken once down in Georgia for a wild turkey and have been

Georgia as being backward. Sorrow, because of entirely unnecessary game are highly respected citizens a little gun shy ever since. When we complained to the offending

soil and related losses being suffered by otherwise grand regions. Im- of their communities. They op- friend, that there had been no wild turkeys in that part of Georgia

patience, because ways and means of correction are known, available erate businesses on a high basis, for 50 years, he was most indignant. It seems we had mistaken him

to all, and inexpensive. They need only to seize them and put them and they would surely jail an em- for a bear the week before and he took great delight in pointing out

to work.

ployee if they caught him stealing there had been no bear around for a 100 years. That taught us to

I feel amply qualified to talk about these things now, for I have money. And yet they go to the look before we shot and to distrust all hunters.

just completed some 13,000 miles of automobile travel through 22 fields and the woods before the

states, and my recollections of what was seen are fresh and vivid. So legal time for taking game and

are the conversations had with hundreds of individuals in these 'states. themselves steal from their other,

The travel took me to many parts of the South, as far north as New honest neighbors. They say the

York and Wisconsin, and as far west as Colorado.

outdoors will bring out the true

Recovery of Wildlife Appears Likely

character of a man. Maybe more

ecause my usiness has been conservation of renewable natural

resources, and because that will always be my avocation, I have looked

with critical eye upon the countryside. I have looked for polluted

waters, and for soil erosion, and have had an eye cocked to observe

the state of our forests. All these, because it is a known fact that our

fishes and wildlife of all kinds thrive only if the condition of our

waters, soil and woodlands is beneficial.

Today, I am sorry to report, the Middle West appears headed

straight for the same place the South reached a couple of generations

ago, thanks to one-crop farming and plowing up hill and down insteaa

of on the contour. T oday the South has learned its lesson. Except in

the flattish coastal plain and in level river bottomlands, you don't

see many straight rows in the South. The hill country farmer who

still b~ags about plowing the straightest furrow in his county, now-

adays IS looked upon as a poor farmer. And, wildlife already has be-

gun to benefit from this new and enlightened practice. It won't achieve

the full measure of benefit for some .years to come, because the pro-

cesses of recovery are not normally rapid, but recovery is on the way.

This isn't the case in the Middle West. In such states as Iowa and

Nebraska a contoured and strip-cropped or terraced farm is still rare,

an exception. It is only because these states had deep topsoil to begin.

with that we still hear stories of bumper crops. In the Middle West

the rows of corn still march with geometrical precision across the

rolling countryside. Every field is so planted, by machinery, that if

you stand in the middle of one of them you see straight rows about

you at every 45-degree interval on the arc of the circle.



humaNJ than we care to admit, are thieves at heart.
The other thing I cannot understand is why the honest hunter will tolerate such thievery. If the average man discovered a rogue taking money by the handfull out of the teller's window at the bank, or stealing a suit of clothes out of a store, he would become highly indignant. Yet that same average man will stand on the street and listen to a group of men discussing how they shot doves over a baited field before the season opened, and laugh with the group about how they "put one over on the wildlife ranger."
The unfortunate fact is that they are not putting anything over anyone but themselves. If they love the sport that goes with a gun and dogs and the field at dusk, they are tolerating a crime against that sport, against themselves and against the community in which they live. It is simply

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beyond my power of reason how a

Advantage of Shooting a friend
A private dove shoot though with plenty of birds and heavily insured friends can offer some rare sport. Of course the only advantage in being shot by a friend is that your body won't lay out in the open too long, but this seldom happens at a well regulated private shoot so all you have to worry about is the game warden.
The game warden is so busy protecting the birds that he just doesn't have time to protect you from the friend who invites you to shoot at this field just swarming with doves. You are happily banging away, when your friend walks up with a stranger and announces that you are shooting doves over a baited field. Since this is not considered cricket, you would ordinarily leave except for the fact that you are detained by the stranger, who is the game warden. Doves shot under such conditions usually run up to $50 apiece.
But it's on the public shooting grounds that you get your action, whether you're after doves or dodo birds. Hunting in these places is endorsed only by talent scouts from funeral homes. They know that sooner or later some sucker in a rabbit skin cap or a fur coat will make a name for himself in the obituary columns.
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The best example of this was the .Wisconsin hunter who became lost the opening day of bear season and climbed a tree to get his bearings. Two minutes later he had three .30 caliber slugs in him and so did the bear skin coat he was wearing at the time of the accident.
Out in Northern California, the opening of pheasant season is the day that the insurance companies call all bets off. If a man goes through five opening days without a scratch, he gets an honorary membership in the American Legion. In the Southern states hunters don't get this chance but they make up for it by mistaking their friends for rabbits and quail.
Fortunately, doves. don't thrash around in the bushes. Except for the very early morning, they fly pretty high and it takes a hunter

You also see deep gullies in nearly every corn field. In many tbe stealer of game can get by the with periscopic vision to mistake another hunter for a dove in flight.

erosion has been checked with grasss, but an acre or more out of wrath of his honest friends.

We are firmly convinced that's the reason God didn't give man

nearly every 40 has been taken out of grain production and no longer Society sets up a standard, wings. There wouldn't be any body left after bird season.-Louis-

contributes to the food needs of the world. Also, sheet erosion has predicated on rules that we call ville Times.

taken the cream of the topsoil off the high slopes and crowns of every laws. These rules are made, not

hillside field. The mature corn there looks, and is, scrawny, and the for individuals, but for society as

yield gets lower every year. Observe those fields in the spring, when a whole. To be a member of that the corn is young, and the soil itself looks pale and poor compared society in good standing, we must

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Organization of Soil Conservation Districts got a late start in standard concerns itself with the these Middle West areas, but is moving faster now. An appreciaole playtime of man, his recreation, of :hange has occurred in the last year. But large blank spaces still which hunting and fishing is a

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show up on the maps issued by the Soil Conservation Service. These part. By breaking any of those

blanks aren't as large as the TVA region, which is still almost com- laws, you perpetrate a crime

p1etely blank (except in northern Alabama), but they are much too against society, and thereby be-

big for the good of the country. It will take five years or more for come a criminal. A game criminal the work now just getting under way to show any real results. South- is as bad as any other kind. :rners have found out from personal experience that results don't Be an honest sportsman, and see

Tile

:orne overnight. Meanwhile, the dark, fertile soil continues to run that those about you are honest,

down to the sea after every summer shower.
And, while the slow processes of organizing Districts and then making the planned work effective, get under way, wildlif~ continues to suffer.. Parts of the Middle West are suitable for quail, and the :oveys w1ll suffer. Pheasants are present over nearly all the area in question but they, too, won't be happy in their declining environment. Nor will the rabbits, squirrels, and doves and other creatures of the wild. And the fishes will struggle for life in the heavy brown goo running down the streambeds, and will find more and more of the

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Continued on Page 6 Jas. H. Reeve

Calhoun. &a.

Hoagland and Persons Mississippi are expected to enter dogs in the Atlanta amateur event.

To Judge Atlanta Trial Jack Waddell &Sons Jack Waddell Deane Waddell Bill Waddell

The 16th trial of the Atlanta Field Trial Club November

P. 0. Box 1316 Nashville, Tenn.
Manufactu.rera' Repreaentative

16-17 will be judged by Raymond Hoagland, of Cartersville, Ga., and Roy Persons, of Monticello, Ga., it was announced

Gamemaster Rainbeau Geo. A. Reach

New Era Cap. Co. Booton Athletic Shoea H. Harwood & Son

ldaosgt

owregeaknibzyatWion. .C.

(Bill)

Satterthwait,

president

of

the

bird

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Hoagland and Persons have stakes and winners were: Puppy,

long been identified with field Mercury's Amazon Girl, owned by

trials and two years ago they Satterthwait; Derby, Ray, owned

comprised the judiciary for this by Dr. Archie Taylor, Glenmora,

popular one-course trial, which La.; AU-Age, Little Elva, owned

this time will include only three by the late A. J. (Quill) Orme,

stakes.

and Shooting Dog, Calico Lady,

The Amateur Derby will be run owned by Horace Gullatt, of At-

Saturday, November 16, followed lanta.

Sunday by the Amateur All-Age ENTRY FEES UP

and Shooting Dog stakes. The In line with the times, the entry

Puppy stake has been dropped. fee has been raised to $10 in each

OPENS WITH DERBY

stake. An extra dollar tax will go

Chairman C. M. (Slim) Bowden, to the Amateur Field Trial Clubs of the trial committee, said that of America. tentative plans call for the Derby Satterthwait and Bowden said to start at noon Saturday, but a that the $2.50 increase in fees

serves a purpose. It heals and toughens soft, tender or sore feet. It keeps the ~~

large entry would necessitate two was necessary to meet the in-

full days of running.

crease in costs of quail for tiber-

Bowden declared that a large ation in the bird field.

entry is indicated in the Shooting Pointer and setter men from

feet sound and healthy. . . ..;:; Try it on your dog. Re- :-:: suits guaranteed.

Dog test. Sixty-two dogs ran in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carothe four-event fall trial last year, lifia, North Carolina, Florida, which were run in December. The Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana and

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HIGH TIDE HENS-Elliott Gatehouse, of Atlanta, shot this string of 18 clapper rails on Georgia's first spring tide last month. He and his brother Dexter bagged 82 birds in two days at Shellman 's Bluff.

Storm Aids Hen Hunters

Continued from Page 1 postponed their trips to the run through the 15th. Hunters

marshes until October. They had who made the first trip reported

read the tables, which didn't take an abundance of birds and said

into account the Southeast.

storm from

the

they

were

large,

indicating

the

Favorable shooting days this spring hatch was early and sue-

month will begin October 10 and cessful.

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Autumn is the season for change -change of color for leaves in the forest; change from North to South for migratory game birds; change of weather, and certainly a change of hats for well-dressed men of the South. . . Here are new hats of fine quality fur felt ... styled with the class, color, and lines of the stream-lined migrants of the sky-lanes.... Greet the new season with a new Muse hat and
wear it with pride I

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Georgian Gets TUGALO LAKE BASS
TOCCOA, Ga.-Lawrence Dodd us~orl spring lizards to catch an

Southern Dove

8%-pound bigmouth bass at Tugalo
Huge Walleye Lake recently. The fish was 24
ini.'IJes long.

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In Tennessee
DALE HOLLOW, Tenn. - A
Georgia youngster provided the
big September surprise here and started a mad rush to the fishing holes when he outfought a 12pound, 4-ounce walleyed pike.
Joe Webb, Jr., of Chickamauga, Ga., hooked and landed the big battler here on a Paw Paw minnow. He was the envy of hundreds of Tennessee anglers who have been content with three pounders, and who paraded their catch of any walleye weighing , over this. ; The Webb boy was pleased, of course, but his story of how he
Ilanded the pike was short and
1 simple.
I "He jus' got on and I jus'
I played him down." And that was all he had to say.

Continued from Page 1
results on a second visit to the same fields.
This means that there is still an abundance of food, and that doves have the sagacity to move out when the firing is too hot.
Colonization into large feeding flocks is not expected to take place until the flights reach the Deep South in late November and December.
YOUNG BIRDS LARGER There is at least one encourag-
ing factor in the dove picture. Most gunners report that juveniles appear to be larger than those killed two weeks later in 1946. Bags checked by Southern Outdoors revealed a larger percentage of adult birds than kills made in 1944 and 1945.
In three Southern states having split seasons, legal shooting ended September 30 after two weeks of light hunting. This included Georgia, Arkansas and Missis-

ALL ALUMINUM

BIG BLUE MACON, Ga. - George Mills

sippi, where the season reopens December 18.
Gunning continues in Kentucky,

fresh Water fishing Craft

caught a 12%-pound blue cat in the Ocmulgee River last week. He

Maryland, South Carolina, Virgmia, Alabama, Louisiana and

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NIGHT MARAUDER STOPPED-James 0. Shaw, Jr., 14-
year-old Atlanta boy, and a I0-pound-6-ounce big mouth bass that struck his frog-finish Jitterbug at 2 a. m. Young Shaw caught .the lunker in Lake Raymond, near Newnan, and Howard Sampson, who recently moved to Atlanta from Fort Smith, Ark, is mounting it.

Broward, Dade and Monroe counties in Florida October 1-31. In the remainder of the state November 20 is the starting date.
Mixed Catch Made On Ogeechee River
METTER, Ga.-L. V. Durden made a good catch of mixed game fish on the Ogeechee River.
He took six jackfish, three red-

Skipper

LandSIOLD OSCAR STILL

bellies and two bigmouth bass near Ogeechee Station. The larg-

MAKING THE FAIR

est bass weighed three pounds

Old Oscar, a black sturgeon and the top jack was a 2-pounder.

who has been a fixture at Iowa

Twice the power-Half the current

13-Pound Bass State Fairs for the past 20 years, will attend again this year as part of the Conservation Department's exhibit. But Oscar isn't

In Altamaha

the piscatorial Apollo -he once was. During the war years, he has
been loafing in the cool waters of

SAFE SILENT

LUDOWICI, Ga.-The Altamaha River will hold its own with any Southern streams in yielding big bigmouth bass, according to Wildlife Ranger T. W. Long.
The Georgia ranger last week

the Strawberry Point trout hatch-

ery, cleaning up the debris in the Someti'!'es the big ones hide in the

shadow of your boat.

pond bottoms. He has gained pounds, bringing his weight up

20 to

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reported two catches that compare favorably with the largest bass taken in the state this season.

Long apologized for mentioning a 7-pounder taken by Charlie
Lu, of Glennville. ''I'm reporting this one just to

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Henry Skipper, of Darien, prove that we've got 'em from hauled in a bucking 13-pounder, frying size on up," Long said.

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and two days later Hugh Howard, "And to let you know that the of Ludowici, landed a grandaddy fish are striking down here."
South Shows the Way
Continued from Page 4 aquatic insects, upon which they depend for food, being smothered out by silt.
Big Waste of Money
While all this is going on the unthinking so-called sportsmen will continue to raise heck with their game and fish departments over the

"SCRATCH?"

A clean ftoa-frOf! dOll

may still continually

aeratch, dig and bite

himself because of an

Intense itching irrl\a~

tlon centered In th

nerve endings of his

tortured skin. HE IS

IN MISERY and mus_t

scrateh. Want to help

- -~

lllm-<!Uickly?

Try giving REX HUNTERS DOG POW-

DERS once each week. Used aucceu

fully for years by thousands of dbg

owners to reUeve the ITCH that mates

dQp SCRATCH. Trial Size 25c, Econo-

my ...stze box-5 times as muc:1-only

scarcities, and will urge the stocking of more millions of fish in the u.oo. At H. G. Hastings Co.

streams, and the raising at game farms and releasing in the wild of

more and more quail, pheasants and rabbits. A lot of money will be

wasted that way, money these same so-called sportsmen have them-

selves contributed in the form of license fees, and that could and

should be put to more constructive uses-uses such as procuring ease-

ments and leases on public shooting and fishing areas to replace thoSe

being closed by the growing rash of "no trespassing" signs.

The South-much of it-can thank its stars it recognized the

reasons for the damage that came upon it in years past. It can be

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glad it was-much of it-progressive enough to grasp the beneficial significance of the Soil Conservation program when it was establishe'cl in the late 1930s. It still has a long, hard road back to its former greatness and productivity. The wrongs done nature aren't forgiven and corrected quickly. But a start has been made. The Middle Wes\; may well look to the South. From history and from what it sees now, it should take warning, and take heart.

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huntin g , fi5hing , ca mp- 22 rattles and weighed 25 pounds,

Hunters

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was

killed

near

here

last

week

by

inval uable informatior V. L. Hasty, pulpwood operator.

ab out g uns, fishing

t<!t c kle , game law

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to

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t o fish and hunt-

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In November
Georgia's annual rifle and arch-
ery hunts in the Chattahoochee National Forest will be held in

November, with the scene shiftin~r

from the Chattahoochee-Chestatee

to the Blue Ridge Area.

The archery hunt, open to any

archer in the country, will be No-

vember 4-9 inclusive, according to C. K. Spaulding, supervisor of the Chattahoochee Forest, and Charlie Elliott, director of the Georgia 1 Game and Fish Commission. The state and federal agencies handle

"Heh I Heh I Still no shells I "
Marks and Causey

Is Sport Worth It?

189 PEACHTREE STREET
at Zachry

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

the hunts cooperatively. Riflemen will shoot in two sec-
tions, November 25-27, and November 28-30. They may obtain applications from the Georgia Commission after October 10 and names will be drawn October 24 by the Dahlonega, Ga., Lions

Open Newest Store
A former Atlanta Cracker catcher and a former football and baseball star at Druid Hills High School, have opened Atlanta's newest sporting goods store.
Julian (Mickey) Marks, of Columbus, and J. M. (Mack) Causey

The delights of the sportsman are too numerous to list. Every person who reads this message knows what it means to take a a trout or kill a bass ... to flush a covey of quail .. . to bring down

Club. Both archers and riflemen will
be charged a $5 fee for the privilege of bagging a buck deer with visible antlers. Bow and arrow shooters may take 10 squirrels, two raccoons and an unlimited

are partners in Georgia Sporting Goods and Athletic .Equipment, Inc., at 2-4 North Avenue, just off West Peachtree.
They will cater to the hunting and fishing trade, as well as to competitive athletes and teams.

a deer . . . to hear a hound bay at the tree . . . he understands the deep pleasure of the woods . .. the :r.est of camping beside a clear stream . . . the earthy joy of tramping the fi.elds.

number of wild hogs. Only one archer has taken a
buck on the Georgia hunts. Joe Porter, of Norfolk, Va., scored last year. The last time the Blue Ridge Area was hunted riflemen

Marks was a star catcher at Columbus High before joining the Crackers and Causey is remembered for his cage and gridiron play at Druid Hills.

But nature does n_ot alway s s ta y in balance.

bagged 36 bucks in November ,

1945.

PERFECTION

Through all the ages, man in his migrations westward has left ..a blight on many of the

~ Letters

earth's most fertile areas . . . Lands and streams once teem-

IMPARTIAL PREt:;S: Editor, Southern Outdoors: I am

ing with nature's gifts have been made barren .by man.

enclosing a check for a subscrip-

tion to Southern Outdoors. Of

course, we who are interested in

Wh.en nature ceases to be in

wildlife conservation know that

balance we can no longer have

politics have been the bone of wildlife conservation in nearly every state. The only hope before us is a vigorous impartial press, and it is my thought that the sportsmen of the South should rally behind

KIBBLED BISCUIT

the beauties of nature-nor fish, nor game, nor trees . . . not even water to drink or use for power. Often we cannot survive .except by moving on.

such a paper as yours, regardless of where they live.
M. D. Hart, Richmond, Va.

The same food as Whole Bis
cuit, only in broken form for convenience in feeding. Next

Only recently have we become

in popularity to Meat Meal Ce- aware of the need for restoration

FISHIN' JIM AGREES

real for every-day feeding.

and replenishment . . . soil con-

You'll Want a
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Editor, Southern Outdoors: I am enclosing a clipping of my column, "Around the Campfire," in which I have quoted in full your front page editorial attacking the tackle racketeers. My regular "eatin" job as sales representative of a large

5 LBS. 65C 10 LBS. $1.25 25 .LBS. $2.95 50 US. $5.78
100 LBS $11.55
Prices f.o.b. Atlanta
HASTINGS' KENNEL SHOP

servation . . . forest and flood control ... vigilance against the pollution of our rivers . . . breeding and feeding grounds for fish, fle;,h and fowl. On these billions. of dollars have been spent. Much

fishing tackle manufacturer leaves Mitchell at Broad WA. 9464 more remains to be done.

If~

me in accord with everything you have included in your editorial. This was a racket in a sport where rackets have no place. I myself was approached by a group willing to go to any extreme to obtain

HOW THfY GO 1011 THA
, BALANCED FLAVOR

It is all worth it! A. L. BELLE ISLE
Atl anta Baggage and Cab Co.

Swell for country or campus wear.

hard to get tackle items. I am glad to report that this group re-

Automobile Fin ance Co.

The Tyrol Is light, jaunty and colorful. Stitched all over with a 'handsomely

ceived a lot less tackle than they would have been able to obtain as legitimate tackle dealers.

Bell e Isl e Air port Service Bell e Isle Realty & Inves tment Co.

braided band to match color of hat. Designed for "all weather" by Crofut
and Knapp. Sizes 6% to 7!1. Vibrant Autumn colors in

Jim Miller, Utica, N. Y.
ENCOURAG.E CLUBS Editor, Southern Outdoors:
I am very happy that we can

Yell ow Ca b Co. Harl em Cah Co. Belle Isle UDriveIt

AZURE BLUE

HAZEL BROWN

have in this state such a publication as Southern Outdoors. I feel that you are in position through

Bell e Isle Truck Rental System

MARBLE GRAY

COVERT (Neutral)

your publication to encourage conservation clubs over the state

Helle Isle Building

and the South to continue their

$5

efforts to restore game and fish. We want you to meet with us as

often as you can, as we enoyed

20 Houston Street, N. E. Georgia

your recent visit.

2ACHRY

Earl Staples, Carrollton, Ga. Editor's Note: Rivalling our

85-87-89 PEACHTREE ST., NE

most eventful and enjoyable trips afield are our visits with game

and fish clubs. We believe that

through such clubs as the Carroll

(Ga.) Coun~y Conservation, of

which Mr. Staples is an active

member, hunting and fishing will

receive their greatest benefits,

00 Lake Okeechobee Closed

LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla.- Florida Game and Fresh Water

One of the longest outdoor fights Fish Commission, called in addi-

in the mercial

history of Florida-comfishermen vs. sports fish-

tional

game

wardens

to

help

en-

..; ermen-came to an end at mid- force his department's order.

night, September 30, when this Okeechobee is the second larg-

sprawling lake was closed to com- est lake wholly within the United

mercial fishing.

States. Last year it yielded 2,250,-

The closing of Okeechobee, 000 pounds of catfish, bream and

along with the Lake St. George- crappie for the market. The Lake

guS
~

St. Johns River district, sent approximately 300 commercial fish-

George-St. Johns yielded 7,250,000

River district pounds worth

ermen in search of other means over $1,500,000.

Q of earning a living. Tliey were Most of the catfish went to

E-o granted five days in which to dis- Georgia and the Midwest, the

0 pose of catches already on hand. crappie to New York and Chicago

0 I. N. Kennedy, director of the and the bream to Georgia.
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GORDON LAKE YIELDS

11-POUND SMALL MOUTH

LAFAYETT.E, Ga.-A Heddon's Lucky 13 spelled tough luck for a

big smallmouth bass and good luck for Martin Clements, of Kensing-

ton, here last month.

Clements was fishing Gordon large fish in this lake, but fisher-

Lake, 40 acres of private fishing men are unable to catch them.

water, when he tied into the old

mossback.

Hottest Tip-You fishermen who

When the fight and the weigh- still prefer silk to Nylon casting

ing ceremonies were over, Clem- lines should buy an extra spool or

ents' found himself the an !Ph-pound trophy.

owner

of

two

and

carry_it

over.

Next

year

Ranger Hugh Forester expressed silk lines will be exactly doubled

belief that there are many more in price.