The Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-11-26, Page 6Page 6—Bayfield Bulletin—Thur., November, 26 1964
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TALES
by
ART ELLIOTT
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Here's a letter from a guy
that doesn't mince words. I've
been through the white waters
with him in a canoe and had
half of the partnership. He's
another ex-serviceman who has
had most of the corners knock-
ed off, a husband, father and
farmer. Without comment we
put his woods into type:
November 24.
Mr. Art Elliott,
Bayfield Bulletin, Bayfield.
Dear Art:
Enjoyed your exchange of
letters with Ellwood Epps re
advantages of hunting with a
camera instead of a gun. You're
bucking a tough league and
human nature. Trying to sell
camera-hunting to a gun and
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Be A Horse
Of A
Different Color!
We have grown accustomed to the names
on the mailing list and have come to think
of all these people as friends. Lf you do not
find a date code number on your mailing
sticker, your subscription is past due. Many
are receiving the paper free at some cost to
the publisher. Send in your subscription to-
day. Be a horse of another color!
We are enclosing $4.00 for One Year -
($5.00 to U.S.A.)
$2.00 for Six Months -
($2.50 to U.S.A.)
$1.00 for Three Months
($1.25 to U.S.A.)
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STREET
CITY or TOWN
PROVINCE or STATE
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ammunition merchant is akin
to trying to persuade the to-
bacco industry that a lung-
cancer scare even exists, or a
well-heeled defence worker
that some disarmament might
be a good idea.
Most farmers will agree that
our No. 1 farm pest is the hun-
ter and his deg. I'm excepting
the one-in-a-hundred idyllic
hunter described by Ellwood.
We never see him. What we do
see is the other 99%—lame-
brained adherents to the "if
it moves kill it" philosophy
who sneak in the back way
leaving carnage in their wake.
They shoot any wild duck
you've lured onto farm ponds
to nest; adult marsh hawks are
shot, their nest atop a muskrat-
house ransacked; you find the
freshly-skinned bodies of a
family of 'coons you've watch-
ed grow up, tossed just inside
the gate; you find another still
in a trap—half-starved and
with a broken paw, debate
whether to kill it or let it go;
in the cedars is a gut-shot deer
a poaCher is too lazy or too
scared to fallow up and kill;
rain-bow trout are blasted, shot,
speared or netted as they lie
stunned during the spawning
operation; dead and wounded
gulls litter the duck blind at
Black's Point where sportsmen
have "cleared their guns";
others simply set up bottles on
the sand, pulverize them and
leave the splinters buried for
some child's foot to find next
summer. I won't go on, Art.
You know the picture as well
as I do.
High-paid, socially irrespon-
sible advertising writers for the
"outdoors" type magazines are
responsible for much of this
situation. To get as many guns
into as many hands as quickly
as possible they use the same
theme as Ellwood; take you
young son or daughter into the
bush With a gun, let him watch
some creature dying in agony
that wanted to live and explain
that he or she is now a "sports-
man", or "sportswoman". "I
know there is nothing as heal-
ing, as invigorating, as conduc-
tive to clean thinking and liv-
ing that starting a young boy
OT girl properly in the sane
and sensible use of a gun,"
writes Ellwood.
Farmers, once naive enough
to leave their woodlots or
streams unposted, have only to
attempt to shingle a cottage
roof during the partridge sea-
son, or fix fences in ground-
hog country, to rush fcr signs,
nails and hammer. Any boy
who looks close to 16 can buy
a .22 rifle, blaze away to hearts
content. A recent drive to cur-
tail use of rifles lead to char-
ges of "limiting personal liber-
ty" by the powerful "sports-
man" lobbies. In farming areas
there is only one spot for rifles
—supervised rifle-range.
I'mwith you, Art, and the
thousands who made their first
visit to the woods in search
of animals to kill, and later
found far more pleasure of an
enduring sort by hunting with
cameras. They have all the
pleasure of roughing it in the
outdoors. They must show far
more than the killer's skill,
must work closer to their prey.
In a second they have a per-
manent record of their hunt,
and lasting pleasure for them-
selves and friends. They leave
the woods clean and unsullied.
They are true conservationists.
They record and protect a heri-
tage that was intended for us
all, not the idle amusement of
a few selfish men with high-
powered firearms in their hands.
Best of luck with your paper,
Art. I enclose $2.10. The two
bucks is for a few more issues,
the ten cents is towards a
"Buy-Ellwood-A-Camera" cam-
paign.
(Signed)
J. C. Hincimarsh.