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p«a»t-cSunday, Octobwr 15, 1959 - San Antonie EXfMSS AND NWSI#,V'^v0V 4U.t,*Sr^TiIDAHO ELK, DEER HUNT—Guide Bill Borkell, i.n picture ot left, leads pack train along snow-covered hillside on way to hunting camp in Idaho mountains. San Antonian Lin Nowotny took photo at right of Harry Landrum, also of San Antonio, as the pack horses, loden with quartered elk, are led through ablinding snowstorm. The hunters bagged three elk and three mule deer on the 11-day trip.OUTDOORS WITH DAN KLEPPERBears t rouble LocalShotgun Facts, FallaciesElk Hunters in IdahoWhen the Texas goose season[tal W. Because these are nots at sunrise Monday (li! cess ot hunters will depend a great deal on the weather.If Monday is one of those quite, windless, bluebird days, the first shot on the prairie Will push the geese a mile high and keep them there.But if there is a stiff wind nr even fog, hunters will get some shooting.Last Sunday I said a little hit about shotguns and ranges. Today I want to expand on that a little bit. The shotgun is a fallacy-rid den firearm outdone only by the shell_ it shoots.Klcppcrfacts.They are fallacies.Long Barrel Best?A 32-inch barrel will shoot farther than a 26-inch barrel? The answer, oE course, is “no, if you use modern ammunition.Long shotgun barrels were necessary in the days of black powder. The shot had to travel down a longer barrel while all of the powder burned to build up velocity.Wi th modern, fast • burning, smokeless powder, all the velocity is generated within the first 24 to 25 inches of the barrel. Therefore, the shot will carry just as far.Different ChokesA full-choked lube will shoot farther than a modified tube? No The killing range of the full choke is greater than more open chokesthe facts that; A 32-inch long tom will shoot farther than a 26-inch barrel; a full-choked tube will shoot farther than a modified tube; a magnum shell will shoot farther than a high velocity shell; a double-barreled gun will shoot harder than an automatic.Right? Wrong . . . with a capl-ter pattern you have, the belter chance you have of killing game.A full choke holds the shot together for a longer distance, allowing it to “open up at a greater distance than a more open .choke.The velocity of pellets actually is lower from a tighter tube than from an open lube, primarily b« cause the shot is slowed down to a small degree as it hunches to-ensGoose Season At Sunrise MondayOpThe waterfowl season in Texas opens nt sunrise Monday. Only geese will be legal game until Nov. 13 when the duck season opens.Sunrise In the San Antonio area Monday will be 6:42 a.m. Legal shooting ends at sunset daily. Sunset In the San Antonio area Monday will be 5:54 p.m.The daily bag limit nn gee so Is five, provided that the limit shall not contain marc than two Canada geese or its subspecies or one Canada and one whitcfrant.Possession limit Js one day’s kill of five birds.The 75*1 ay goose season in Texas will end at sunset. Jan. S. The 50-day duck season will open at noon Nov. 13 and will close at sunset, Nov. I.Shooting hours wi:i be from sunrise to s..nset daily except on IV opening day.At 40 yards the velocity high velocity shell (Mi drams of powder and ll4 ounces of shot) fired from a full choke is about 39? feet per second.The same load fired from modified choke at 40 yards about 974 feet per second; from an improved cylinder, 984 feet per second.A magnum shell will shoot far-ill cr than a high velocity shell? I answered that one last Sunday, but I'll do it again today.Magnum's Use A magnum shell utilizes more powder to push more shot out of the barrel. Therefore, your muzzle velocity seldom is greater than a shell that uses less powder to push less shot,The high velocity shell uses 3% drams of powder am) 1% ounces of shot for a muzzle velocity of 1,330 feet per sccnnd.12-gauge 2-%-inch magnum shell uses 4 drams of powder and V/t ounces of shot for a muzzle velocity of 1,315 fps.Three-Inch Magnum The 12-gauge 3-inch magnum shells that use 4 drams of powder and 1 3-6 ounces of shot or 4'4 drams of powder and 1 5-3 ounces or shot build up muzzle velocities of 1,315 fps.The muzzle velocity of the magnums, as you can see, are slightly less t}ian the high velocity shell, but, since you put more shot into the air, you have a better pattern and, therefore, a deadlier killer,A double-barreled gun will shoot harder than an automatic? Wrong again. Shooters often talk nf “hard-shooting shotguns, hut one won't shoot any harder than another.A Misconception Tic re is a popular misconception that an automatic, which often utilizes some of the powder gases to work the action, loses some of its power as a result.The harder rcc:.! of a double gun only adds to inis uroror.rep-tmn. In a double. ll:e nr.ly thingtu stop the recoif i3 the shooter's shoulder.But in an automatic, the action of ejecting a shell and placing another into the chamber uses up some of 1he recoil before it hits the shooter’s shoulder.The main fact to keep in mind, however, Is that the shot has left the muzzle of the gun BEFORE the recoil. Therefore, the recoil, whether easy or harsh, lias no effect whatsoever on the power generated by the shat or the distance it will travel.Another Fallacy also holds true for the old argument that a shotgun will shoot farther if the butt is placed against a stationary object such as a brick Wall.The thought here is that since there could be no backward movement of the gun due to recoil, the, shot would go just that much far-, thcr.But, since the shot must leave the muzzle before there is any recoil at all, this fact” isn’t a fact at all. It's just another of the many shotgun fallacies.Fisliing Good In Quake AreaHELENA, Mont.—Fishing Js still good below the August earthquake slide area of the Madison River, one of the world's famous trout streams or Southwestern Montana. The season closes Nov. 30.Tie Montana Fish and Gar Department noted today, liowcvi that some MI effects arc expected! IrDin silt being washed into the stream from erosion.This results from lowering by 69 feet the lake backed up behind quake - caused mountain slide across the Madison Canyon. However, it Is hoped that the Hushing action will carry along the si it with ; of fisli.Three San Antonio hunters have just arrived back from a big game hunt in Idaho.They are taxidermist Lin Nowotny, sporting goods dealer Harry Landrum and insuranceman H. L, Bramble.The hunters stayed in the mountains near the South Fork of the Salmon River for 11 days and bagged three elk, each weighing about 800 pounds, and three mule deer.The San Anfonians hunted about) miles out of Warren, Idaho. The last six of those miles, from base camp to tlie hunting camp, had to be packed horseback.In spite of fog, snow, bears, No-wotny's frostbitten toes and a couple of falls from the saddle by Bramble, the hunters had a successful trip.Temperature during the 11 days ranged from 15 above down to zero, and it snowed more than 30 inches. Most of the time there was1 inches of snow on the ground.Bears got one of the elk and one deer. 'Hie elk was left where It was killed, and the hunters planned to pack the meat out the next day. But a bear beat them to it.A second bear canie right Into camp for tlie dccr. The hunters had two dccr hanging on a rack less than 15 feet from Ihcir tent.During tlie night, the bear pulled one of the deer down, drugged it off a 100 yards or so and ale part of it.The next morning the hunters tied the carcass to a tree with a heavy rope, and Landrum sat over Uie carcass all one day and part of the night. But the bear failed to show.The next day the guide returned to the ranch and got a bear trap.arrived at camp late that evening, and the hunters were too tired to set it.Tliat night the bear came back and look deer, rope and all.Hunters Urged to MakeoDrum Removal For WillacyAUSTIN—Tie Game anil Fish Commission now can contract commercial fishermen for the removal of drum from the Willacy County portion of the Laguna Madrc, according to the director of marine fisheries.Such an operation has been permitted in Cameron County during the months of December, Jan-uary and February since 1957, he said. “Tlie new statute jKimits a similar operation :n Wi.lncy Coun ily from January through May.”Solimiu- Tables: in Kood IrrrUory lt;id ^ cover ^durln^ thcBEARS AND GOLD—Elk in top photo wos killed by hunters but was eaten by a bear. The bear skinned back the rib cage to eat forequarters and chest. In bottom photo, Lar,drum pans tor gold in the South Fork, af the Salmon River as minor Carl Amskia instructs.Clean Waterfowl KillsMusky Wins The DecisionAUSTIN - Waterfowl hunters, kicking off against geese at sun-Motiday, will “write their own future ticket” by their own restraint or lack of restraint this according to Cecil Reid, executive secretary of Sports men’s Clubs ot Texas.He urged Texans to discipline iheir shooting techniques particularly to “spare the birds that are too far out to make a clean kill*' since research inch cates that more ducks and geese are wounded and wasted than are bagged.Reid said the pinch is not so great on geese which an mal supply, wilh the bng and season limit the same as last fall. The duck season, cut to 50 days with a lower bag limit, docs not open ur'-.l noon. Nov. I.V A good t.rr.ii for waterfowl hunters to begin pi-artsmg personal conservation is with the goose season opener, said Reid. Actually, the temptation to shoot t birds out of range is greater for goose hunters than duck hunters for the simple reason that the target is much larger and seems much closer.Unless each hunter makes a definite effort to not waste waterfowl we may be in for more d: tic restrictions than were imposed this fall on ducks. Thus it will Ik sound policy to slieot only at birds within good gun range and then to follow through and In chid every downed bird in your hag.’umts;, !--------------EVERYTHING FOR EVERY HUNTING NEEDDid You KnowFish are not born with scales. A baby fish is horn naked of scales, later spinning them from under its skin.EAGLE RIVER, Wis.—The tcousin muskellnnge is a powc fish! That this is true was rece: borne out by a couple of fishcrt on North Two Lake in One County.Mr. mid Mrs. Theodore An of Chicago were fishing in d water in the early evening, k Amo!(! cast and apparently hi snag. She freed it, cast again, hit another snag. This time snag turned out to be a g musky.Mrs. Arnold was unable to go of Uie fishing pole, and the either couldn’t or wouldn't Ic! of the bait.The smuky succeeded in pulMrs. Arnotd out of the b Dressed in a heavy jacket slacks and unable to swim, was no match for a musky in natural habitat. Mrs. Arnold iscucd by her husband,ATTENTION3ES8325SSJ, C. Higgins Big Game FN Mauser Action RifleLESS SCOPEChrome-plated bore and 5-shol magazine. Available in .270 or .30—60 caliber. Slock is custom designed wilh raised cheek piece, checkering on pistol grip and end. Scope extra.The Pride of TobrukUsed, Surplus Enfield No. 4 Service Rifleeasv TIRMSA gun collector s 'wanted'” weapon. One of the world's most famous military firearms. Ten-shot magazine fakes 2 dips of 5 rounds or 10 loose cartridges of 303 BritishJ. C. Higgins Model 45 Rifle30-30 or 35-cal., 7-shoI RepeaterSmooth, lightning-fast short-throw lever action. Fire 7 shots without taking butt from your shoulder. 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