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Show All-Round Champ Ben Hardesty, 22 year old tackle talesman from Detroit, has just about run out of laurels to capture after his recent fourth successive sweep of professional casting honors at the National Association of Angling and Casting Clubs Tournament Tourna-ment held this year in Washington, D.C. In addition to successfully defending de-fending his "U.S. Professional All Accuracy" title, Hardesty took back to the motor city the "Fishermen's All 'Round" trophy, too. This was EMM Hardesty A Trophies won in a series of casting events designed to simulate casting under fishing conditions, with standard fishing tackle. Ben is the newly appointed Shakespeare Shake-speare tackle' salesman In Detroit and Southeastern Michigan. He has demonstrated his proficiency in the use of the tackle he sells by racking rack-ing up the unusual score of 38S out of a possible 400 points against the top casting "pros" of the country. The accuracy contest at the NAACC tournament, the country's largest, is. divided Into four events: bait casting with and ounce plugs, and fly casting with wet and dry flies. There are a possible 10 points that can be scored on each of ten targets in each event. By taking top honors in the accuracy events and the fishermen's casting, Hardesty earned the five star title, "U.S. Professional Pro-fessional All Accuracy and Fishermen's Fisher-men's All 'Round" Champion. AAA Shells Better Now Dampness and scuffing have far 1 - J ... . 1 U 1 1 less auverse eiieci uii siiuiuii Biicua today than they did only a few years ago. Western-Winchester has the answer an-swer when it explains that today's shell tubes are made of high wet-strength wet-strength paper. ,-. This plastic-treated material has been used by the famous sporting arms and ammunition firm since a series of tests showed it to be tougher and more water-resistant than the old-style paper. One of the tests developed by Western Winchester involved the use of a mechanical device which reproduced re-produced the rough treatment received re-ceived by shells carried loosely in the damp pocket of an active sportsman. sports-man. Soaked In Water Shotgun shells made with tubes of the new paper were soaked for half an hour in warm water and then given a severe drubbing for 15 minutes min-utes in the "hunter's pocket." Ball-isticians Ball-isticians found these new shells suffered suf-fered no ill-effects from the mistreatment. mis-treatment. A similar test given old-type resulted re-sulted in fraying to the tubes so extensive that chambering of the shells in a shotgun was difficult or impossible. High wet-strength paper first was used as a packaging material and for maps during the war. It was chosen after the paper suffered "no apparent damage" when it was soaked in water, daubed with mud, paint and gasoline, tramped over by an entire regiment and then rolled over by a tank. AAA Wildlife Week National Wildlife Week In 1952 will be dedicated to preservation of a species of wildlife about to pass from the American scene the diminutive dim-inutive Key deer of Florida. Plans for the annual observance, March 16-22, were announced in Washington Washing-ton January 1 by the National Wildlife Wild-life Federation. Chairman for the Week will be Ed Dodd, creator of the popular newspaper and radio outdoors feature, "Mark Trail." National Wildlife Week has been an annual observance since 1938. The 1952 celebration wl'J mark the beginning of a new series in which each year a particular kind of wildlife wild-life some species In critical or precarious pre-carious condition will be given special spe-cial attention. The 1952 goal will be to save the Key deer from extinction. extinc-tion. As part of the observance, the Federation has created a special fund, known as the Key deer fund. AAA River Largemouth Most largemouth rivers are sluggish, slug-gish, southern streams, and fishing them is not a great deal different from fishing a lake. Occasionally largemouths occur in a stream made up of alternate pools and riffles, and there they usually inhabit the pools. In such a river, the spot where the current runs out into a big pool often is good. At other times they are found in the deepest, quietest parts, or after -'nnows in. the shallows. |