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AN OHIO HUNTER AND TRAPPER | |
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Last fall (on the 14th of September) my father and I went to town after ray uncle to hunt the next clay. We went to bed as soon as we got home to dream of hunting squirrels the next day. We were up bright and early the next morning. As we live on a farm we had to do the chores. Well, we got done pretty quick anyway.
My uncle has a double-barrel shotgun, and father has a Winchester repeating shotgun. I had an air gun. Of course I did not expect to kill any squirrels up a tree with it, but I always feel better with a gun than without one, so I took it. After we got partly out of the barn-yard my uncle said: "What if we should see a fox squirrel up a deal of always, we couldn't shoot him with our shotguns." So dad said: "You go and get the rifle. Milton." I never was so glad.
The first squirrel we got uncle shot across the river. We got two fox squirrels and four red squirrels. We went out hunting the next morning and got one fox squirrel. I did not get any squirrels, but I had a good time.
I like to hunt and trap. Last year I was twelve years old. I caught one mink, one skunk, one weasel and thirteen muskrats. The dog caught an opossum. I only had one trap stolen last year. I have seventeen traps now; fifteen are set. My traps are Victor and Newhouse. The Newhouse are stronger and will hold a 'coon well. I have got a good rabbit dog. I have got four rabbits already.
In a recent issue a reader said something about a no-account airgun. I don't agree with him. I can kill rabbits at a distance of thirty feet and also squirrels. We have a Stevens favorite rifle with which my father killed a woodchuck at one hundred yards distance.
For game we have rabbits, squirrels, quail (which are protected till next year) and some woodcock. For fur bearers we have skunks, muskrats, mink, 'coons, 'possums and weasels.
Milton Harman.
Fur, News. Fur News, January 1916.
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