. Rod and gun. ing on around you. ^ 41 Since returning from this trip, wehave heard it said that twenty orthirty birds should have been the bagto each gun per day. So and somanaged that number. The prairiechicken I credit with being too wideawake to allow himself to be slaugh-tered at this rate. And since writingthe above it was rumored that theso and so had shot two birds andhis friends had given him another twoto make a showing at home, whichdoes not savour much of the sports-mans spirit. We have all heard fish may be about to enter intocompetition. It was with the greatest
. Rod and gun. ing on around you. ^ 41 Since returning from this trip, wehave heard it said that twenty orthirty birds should have been the bagto each gun per day. So and somanaged that number. The prairiechicken I credit with being too wideawake to allow himself to be slaugh-tered at this rate. And since writingthe above it was rumored that theso and so had shot two birds andhis friends had given him another twoto make a showing at home, whichdoes not savour much of the sports-mans spirit. We have all heard fish may be about to enter intocompetition. It was with the greatest regret thattent pegs were pulled up, and a returnmade to business, but if circumstancespermit, another year will see the sametrio back among the hills and woodsagain. In the March issue of Rod and Gun Dr. A. , Dawson, Y. T., will tell the story of aCaribou Hunt in the Yukon, where the CaribouRoam in Countless Herds. The story will bewell illustrated by reproductions of photo-g^raphs taken on the The Four StavSes of Ihe Game TOWED BYA DEER Capturing a Three Year Old Buck in Buttles Lake, Vancouver Island Noel Robinson LET me tell in as few words as possiblewhat I venture to think were the ratherunusual circumstances in which, a fewmonths ago, we captured a three-year-oldbuck in Buttles Lake, Vancouver Island. Ihappened to have my No. 2 Brownie camerawith me. The accompanying snapshots willgive some idea of Mr. Deers actions immed-iately before and after capture. I took othersnapshots but they did not come outsufficiently well for reproduction. As two ofthem would have exhibited the deer towingus and our boat at the end of a rope, I wasverv much disappointed. Buttles Lake, which is reached from themouth of Campbell River, a notable fishingspot on the east coast of Vancouver Island,lies thirty-seven miles in, near the geographi-cal centre of the island and just within theboundary line of that magnificent naturalarea, .Strathcona Park, which the governmentof British
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