HUNTERS‘ CORNER

*Columnist Gets Thinking Of Hunting In Olden Days [

One morning this month. as y the March sun shone brightly in the kitchen window. brother Earl. the Southport tamer of my Column. dropped in for a chat. We were both in a nostal- gic mood and our talk naturally turned to bygone days when we first started hunting together. Our memories went fu r t h e 1' back than that when we used to tag along with father on some of his hunts. In those days every alder swale, if it wasn't bone dry. held woodcock. They were beautiful. golden brown birds whose wings would give with a whistling treble when fl u 3 bed. Their average weight would be between 8 and 9 ounces with a mouth watering flavour when dished up on a platter.

The first time we watched fa' ther hunt woodcock was mem- orable on two counts... we nev- er saw so many woodcock be- fore or since and father. known as a crack woodcock shot, was definitely off the beam an d couldn't hit a barn door if it was moving slightly. My mom ory is vague as how we happen- ed to be in on this shoot. Broth- er Dan was ploughing in the back field and we could h av e been watching him when father arrived with the dog and gun or we could have followed him back whenhe left the house... On the Nor'cast corner of this field there was an alder swale between the land of Pat W h ite and James Trainor.

We both could visualize tb e golden brown birds outlined against a blue October sky as they erupted from the dun col. oured alder swale. and the bil- lows of white smoke that hung in the air after the both barrell salute. and feel the disappoint- ment gnawing in our stomach's as nary a bird fell. We so long- ed to hold one in our hands and gaze on its wondrous beauty to our heart’s content. The only bird he shot was a native rt- ridge, on which there w s a closed season, fired at in mis- take for a woodcock. He was so disgusted with himself he toss-

and remarked: “I thought youl said we had no black ducks. The other day 50 came to my spring. I don't know where 15b y came from but they are there." Sure we have a few cattered here and there... a few hundred or a thousand. but what are they among ten thousand h u n t ers many of whom are not govern- ed by clnse seasons? I’d say off hand that the fifty blacks in question were “rattled” out of some wintering spring. MacCal- lum's Spring at F u l l e r ton's Marsh always held from 50 to 60 blacks each winter. Zero this winter. Wipe the sand out of your eyes boys and wake up be- d fore it's too late.. it could be too late now.

CURLING DRAW

The following is the curling draw for Friday at the Charlo- ttetown Club (Spares needed). 6.50 p.m. (Seagram)

Ice — D._Cameron, N, Nic- holson. B. McGregor. B. Boyles.

Acorn, J. Voutour. Ice 2 —— J. Squarebriggs.

vs winner (Smith vs Burden). Ice 3 Dr. Giddings. R. Ewing, L. Blakeney. H, MacLel- ltan vs. nner (F. Acorn vs. Dr. MacDonald) Ice 4 — Game 15 Seagram

teams." Du egy will depend upon

I Sunday afternoon

SHERBROOKE, Que. (CPl—

warned

in their Allan Cup series open- ing here tonight. .

“The Maritimes have a repu~

Dube returned home Thurs- from a week's holiday in

.1! Florida and immediately scrim- maged his team for two hours.

The M a r i t 1 me champion

Hawks are due if arrive in thllSl me Eastern Townsh ps city earyi I

today by Ramblers. if scheduled a brief workout in the Sherbrooke Arena where the entire best'of-five Eastern Can- ada Allan Cup semi-finals will

train. They have

played

Ketch. R. Manning. B. O‘Rourke 33m93v as necessanh wm played Friday.

next Wednesday and

Dube says his Castors are a

Cup finais last year.

losing to Trail. t r

Gilles Dube, playing coach of 339 Sherbrooke C a s t 0 rs. Moncton Hawks Thursday nightl

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by Castors this week to rein-playoffs. 13 20 tation for pr 0 d u c i n g rough ‘ force the team for All“ C“l’iand eight defeats. The team has be said. "Our shat-.313“ Dube 533” he kmws 3°me'scored an average of five goals how the of the players on the Moncton;a game.

referees act toward any rough‘iea,m and h” "53d “mums °li stuff. If they can't control it—lthe" success- well. we have guys who can be rough too."

“They seem to have a pretty good club." he said. “I think this should be a well balanced series but I'm not making any lpredictions until after the first I H

1be better than last year's Mari- e

a m p i o Amherst

.beat Sherbrooke. to Montreal Olympics last year al of Amherst's

game, sever

one key players, such as former-pro; 't

hie and defencman

.Sher e vs G. Stewart, A Saunders. at Second time is scheduled foriou Kiley. joined the Hawks in With the mid-season when the Ramblers R thde Same M°ndayt Other;folded because of poor game

3 attendance.

Dube says he won't be play- ing unless his team is losing in the series and he feels

E U!

Sherbrooke breezed through

Ice 5 — Game 22 Seagram 8.30 p.m. (Old Spain) .

Ice —— R. MacKenzie. P_1 Borya. C. White. J. Wilson vs BJ Jones. V Robertson. C Downer} H. Edwards. 4

Ice 2 —— S. Lavers, B, MacLen- nan. II. Goudie. T. Burke vs B. Lepage. J. Voutour. J. Weldon. A. MacCormack,

Ice 3 — (Mixedl Game 7

Ice 4 -— S. Bryenton. K. Bal- iei. N. MacNelll, B. Crockett vs A. Wilson, B. Parke. G_ Lidstone S. Sempson.

Ice 5 —- A.E. Piercey, Dr. .Ielks. J Bond, B, Ball vs Dr. Webster. D. Reid. D. Wood, G. MacLaren.

Byes. (Elwood Ford and C. MacInnes)

ed in the furrow and told Dan to plough it under. I also rememb- er Dan going back and digging it up again. Dad's sister Hannah his favourite in fact. was visit- ing us that day and expressed the wish to have a partridge as she just loved them. Dad was a stickler on observing cl 0 s e d seasons and balked on taking the bird home for his own table use. I wish we had more like him today.

In retrospect Earl and I look- ed back on our own woodcock shooting efforts and ibund out first hand how easy they were to miss. I learned to handle woodcock pretty we‘l but Earl never seemed to get on the beam with those golden speedsters. He claimed the whistling sound as they took to the air threw him off the beam. He had a p o 1 nt there for he was deadly at tim- es on ducks. geese. snipe a n d pheasants but neVer felt too sure of himself on Huns. The best of shotgun artists have their off days at times. The black duck shooting we enjoyed in the twen- ties and thirties was something on; u. this world. There were lots of ducks in the forties but competition was becoming a factor.. soon there was a gunner behind every bush. My own record on woodcock was three . straight in three shots.

OUT OF THIS WORLD

The duck shooting we enjoyed at Fraser's Beaver Dam for years was simply out of this world. If we hadn't gotten our limit by 9 am. we figured we were slipping up on our shoot- ing. The first years the limit was 15 per day. then 12. 10 and thus down scale to six. When we first started shooting there was no limit but a year or so later it was set at 25 per day. Not long ago an old duck hunter told me that he an a hunting companion shot 51 black ducks in one opening morning. Tit ey thought they had 50 but a re- count later showed one over the limit. We rated the best wood- cock covers as the “Jones. Mac- Rac, Trowsdale. Hall and Cur- ran‘s.“ On snipe Bod's swamp. Lake Verde. Vickerson'a and Curran'a. Fraser's will always hold top spot. after it came into being. for black ducks. B e fore FTater's it was the Old Home Lake and Gil's Little Pond that held top priority. The b om e lake was where we got our wild- geese.

The ruffed grouse shooting we had in those years ‘was simply fabulous. We thought that per- haps Hurd's Old Mill site was the lot) lrouse cover. In the old days the flights of black ducks "Ming back and forth between Pownal Bay and Plsquld P o n d ‘lmply beggars description. In- lervening beaver dams. la kes Ind ponds were also well patron- ized. My mm at Mount Albion. the last one in the district. “‘-

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MOSCOW ('Reutersl—A Sec- ond World War Saviet Army deserter has given himself up after hiding in his parents‘ home for 21 years. the newspa- per Soviet Russia reports. Peter Nikitin. now 41. “spent the time in prayer with his sisters. and did not dare leave the house in case he was arrested." the pa- per says. He now was working on a collective farm. 1

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