1934 May SPORTS AFIELD W.J. Wilwerding Cover Bear Family In Camp For Sale

Very good condition.

wisely provided for their food and cover, leaving weed and brush

patches adjacent to his fields. This successful farmer's advisor is

no other than Nature, and long experience has taught him that

using bird life to combat bugs, worms and insects has resulted in

saving funds which otherwise would have been spent as protective

measures. So Mr. Wise Farmer harvests a good crop of grain and

dollars from the sale of agricultural products and the shooting

rights sold to the friendly and appreciative sportsmen.

PEPSI

HIS ONCE WISE FARMER

has lost his willing aids in the battle to destroy bugs and insects.

His cost for poisons has increased and the excess crop which he

hoped to harvest is unsold. Too often the agricultural agents, well

meaning experts, and laboratory trained farmers have destroyed

all the hiding and feeding places of our birds. The farmer's pride

in his weedless land devoid of brush growth has been detrimental

to his interests. His lesson is a sad one and much to his surprise

he is learning that a feathered host saves him work and money and

does not deprive him of his own sporting pleasure, and a good

income from the sportsmen.

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Robert C. Mueller

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Vol. 89

SPORTS

BUNTING CAMPING

OUTDOOR SPORTS

Cover Painting-"Bear in Camp".

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Dogs and Their Care..

IVAN B. ROMIG, Saving Game...

The Wet Fly in Theory and Practice....

Autobiography of a Sportsman-Part Five..

May, 1933

...

O'er the River"..

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and TRAILS of the NORTHWOODS

Midnight Bass....

An Easy Way to Smoke Fish.....

Arms and Ammunition

Modern Service Rifles...

Southeastern Small Bore Tournament.

Metropolitan Indoor Championships.....

On the Firing Line With America's Skeet and Trapshooters.

M. J. BELL

First Vice President

LARGE MOUTH BLACK BASS

By Robert Page Lincoln

Facts about this popular fish

TRAPSHOOTING AND SKEET

By Jimmy Robinson

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A northern lake trout story

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A Northern Pike story

IVAN B. ROMIG

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"Paddling O'er the River"

Photograph by

JOHN KABEL

(See June issue)

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y o u

know where

any birds use

around here?"

The aged

negro, feeding

corn to his

hogs at the

edge of the

wood in the

late afternoon,

slowly pushed

his hat to the

back of his

head and med-

itatively

scratched the

frosted horse-

shoe over his

ears. "Naw,

Suh, I don't.

They ain't no

buhrds 'round heah. De coach whips done

got 'em all."

Memorial Parks a

Jack, a Southerner with whom I was hunt-

ing, looked at me and grinned, and said in

an undertone, "Let him take his time and he

will tell us where the birds are in a minute."

The old negro admired our three setters.

They had come to the feeding lot at the

edge of the wood and were looking his hogs

over.

"I declar' they be's mighty peert dogs. I

sho' would like to own one uv 'em."

Old Cap, a Llewellyn setter, approached

the aged negro and made overtures of

friendship. The old darky, with that appre-

ciation of animals found in so many of them.

reached down and began to stroke the setter

Can almost

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T IS strange that fly fishing with either

the wet or the dry-fly has, during the

many years of its presence in the field,

been invested in such mystery and aloof-

ness. In fact, no manner or method of fishing

has been so steeped in loud-sounding phrases

and pseudo-scientific delineations as this

branch of the fishing pastime. It has gathered

to itself an exclusiveness and "holier than

thou" aspect that, instead of being a credit

to the art, has been an actual detriment.

A certain coterie of anglers, more or less

gifted in the art of slinging words, have laid

hold of fly fishing and have claimed it as

their own; and have chosen to dispense their

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WELL, here we are,"

announced my host

and guide, as our

car's headlights bored

path through the darkness

and showed on a patch of

water with a boat pulled up

on the shore and anchored

to a large tree with a chain.

He added, "Better put on

your sweater now; the night

air is cold and we have

nearly an hour before twelve

o'clock to get our tackle

ready, and to row where we

are going."

a

I climbed out with my

tackle box. This was my in-

troduction to Wildcat Lake,

one of Minnesota's 10,000-

wilderness bass lake,

known to few, and reached

by an old logging road, sev-

eral miles from the main

highway.

I am a below average

fisherman and outdoorsman,

and it was only after re-

peated urgings and a feeling

that it was "good business"

on my part, that I consented

to join my friend Jim on

his annual opening-the-sea-

son bass fishing trip.

Never having experienced

a midnight to daylight fish,

I vawned and

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Southeastern Small Bore Tournament and Metropolitan Indoor Championships

Shooters from all over the nation assembled at the Second Annual Southeastern Small-Bore Rifle and Pistol Tournament, staged

under the auspices of the Florida State Rifle Assn. at Sunshine Rifle and Pistol Club Range, Saint Petersburg, Florida

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Southeastern Small Bore

Tournament

Reported for SPORTS AFIELD

By L. M. Bridgland

SPO

PONSORED by the National Rifle Asso-

ciation, the second annual Southeastern

Small-Bore Rifle and Pistol Tournament

opened Saturday morning, February 18, under

the auspices of the Florida State Rifle Ass'n,

on the beautiful Sunshine Rifle and Pistol Club

Range at American Legion Field in Saint

Petersburg, Florida.

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This range has 15 targets at 200 yards and

32 targets at 50 and 100 yards. There are

long, grassed firing points, 10 feet wide, 18

inches in height, carpeted with Bermuda grass,

providing ample facilities for 47 shooters. Vet-

eran riflemen from various parts of the U.S.

pronounce this new range one of the finest.

Councilman Glenn Miller, proxy for Mayor

Henry Adams of the "Sunshine City," officially

opened the tournament Saturday morning by

firing the opening shot at the 200 yard range,

though the actual match shooting did not com-

mence until 10:30 as a pea-soup fog blanketed

the entire range.

Promptly at 10:30 the competitors took their

places for the first event, the Individual Short-

Range Rifle Match; this consisted of 20 shots

at 50 yards. Dr. G. W. Lewallen, pint-sized

veterinarian, member of the Sunshine Rifle

Club, was high man, scoring 199, taking the

gold medal; Bernard Gibbs of Madison, Maine

as runner-up scored 198 with 10 X's to pro-

cure the silve medal.

The Short-range Two-man Rifle Team

Match which came next began at 1:30 as

scheduled with sun shining brightly and a 4

o'clock wind fish-tailing wickedly. This was

10 shots per man at 50 yards and 10 at 100.

Fabian Paffe, member of the International

Small-Bore team which participated in the

matches at Bisley, England in 1931 and cap-

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John Maltman, President, Southern Califor-

nia Skeet Association, and Mrs. S. R. Small,

Detroit, Mich., World's Skeet Champion

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The Pros at Del Monte

Standing, left to right-Harvey Bostick, Charlie Knight, Nels Dunn, Dave Flannigan, Charlie Plank,

Kneeling-Fred Grewell, E. L. Ilgner, C. B. McDowell

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Oregon Gunners at Del Monte

Left to right-C. W. Wood, C. D. Ray, J. H. Carpenter, C. G. Hiltibrand, J. H. Martin, Frank Troeh