Show r SPORTS AFIELD By Dy Ted Kesting Resting Editor Sports Afield Magazine No 9 shot Is the best shotgun load oad tot for crows Sports crows Sports Afield The best time to call foxes is at night Sports Afield Jack rabbits live In sun baked country but they dont don't like the hot het sun Sports Afield With few states excepted a license Is needed to shoot non non- noname game ame rabbits Sports Afield Gophers seldom If It ever climb trees eastern woodchuck will occasionally stretch out on a alow alow alow low limb though Sports Afield When shooting up or downhill downhill downhill down down- hill remember that your bullet will go a bit higher than normal for the range Sports Afield Hunting foxes I In n wooded country Is no cinch Its It's ten times more difficult getting a shot at a slinking coyote than It is at ata a deer Sports Afield If It the tall tail of a chuck youve you've I just shot sticks straight up and jerks from side to side can ean be reasonably certain he Is s fin fin- Sports Afield One of the rare spots where mountain lions are arc still numerous Is the northwest corner of Arizona Art Ari zona which Is a tangle of huge canyons and wild moun moun- Sports Afield Although a cougar can easily pull down a grown horse no other animal of comparable size Is so sc easily killed a well placed 22 bullet will do It with no danger to you Sports Afield Woodchucks are often defended defend defend- ed as aids to rabbits the chuck burrows providing cover for them There is considerable dispute dispute dis- dis dis- dis pule over this now rabbits seem to be thriving where there are no woodchucks Sports Afield Woodchucks require t three h r e e things succulent grasses for food a locale where they can sit in the burrow entrance to see that the coast is clear and sun themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and there must be water nearby Sports Afield Many hunters think that m red clothing makes them too apparent apparent ent to game But Col Townsend Whelen famous big game hunter hunt hunt- er writes do Sports Afield that this is not so because all animals ex except ept then men apes and monkeys monkeys' are apparently color blind am and distinguish animate objects not by appearance or shape hape but by movement sound and scent The idea that you must Instantly Instant ly Iy cut the throat of any animal to bleed it as soon as you have shot it is erroneous and out o of date according to Sports Afield The butcher does it but he stuns or brains a meat animal first then hangs it up by its hind bind legs cuts the throat deeply and the blood pours out insuring better meat You cannot do this in the woods besides a modern modem bullet destroys so much tissue the cavIty cavity ity cavity fills with blood immediately and the cutting of the throat would not help this blood to es cape Recently most boating experts have advocated heading into waves Naves at a slight angle However However However How How- ever one Willard Crandall oi of Sports Afield magazine unhesitatingly unhesitatingly unhesitatingly un un- hesitatingly and strongly advocates advocates advocates cates EXACT heading Into waves for an inexperienced boatman caught in dan dangerous erous waves in a boat 16 feet or under |