Some Tips Deer Hunting
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nanner- a high' ~ lunit!es • '1 a long ~entt on 1e false 1tat10ns 1e more ew op- e bunt- - lization DULE Volume 14 NOVEMBER, 1955 Number 11 ilx em I 30Ma. t 5 ftltt ! ·~" --~ !ti ~.25 5:23 SOME TIPS DEER HU NTING -. 21 --- * * • • t) I * * * * By J ohn l\la.dson I lOW A SPO RTSMEN E d ucation A.,,f~tant I • • 15' When we first thought of writing --u TO BE QUERIED this, we also thought of the Lans - - , ' ".. By Lester F aber ing Strong Man. If ever a poor -5·!0 S to) Jcr in t<' ud ~ ut of Fecl c •·nl A i d deer hunter needed help, he did. 0 :0~ During the first deer season a car 'i •i Early in 1956, some Iowans will bP questioned in a nationwide sur wheeled into the drive of the Lans vey in an effort to determine just ing deer checking station. Draped how much time, money and effort over its fender was what appeared - -5 01 1s being spent on outdoor recrea to be a Guernsey bull with a rock -4:i9 tion. ing chair on its head. The husky --4:5~ Last year the International As young driver got out and said 4 ,,, "Boys, you can weigh this deer if 4 •• sociation of Game, Fish and Con servation Commissioners, pointing you can get it off and put it back; out that little is known of the I'm whipped!" scope of our outdoor a ctivities, Il seems that the hunter had urged the U. S Fish and Wildlife jumped the 240-pound buck in a Service to sponsor a survey of grassy swale back in the Allama American sportsmen. The idea was kee Mountains. H e kllled it with adopted by the government and his first shot and then hog-dressed the project was assigned to a pri il. He didn't consider dragging the vate firm: Crossley, S-D Surveys deer and somehow hoisted the car of New York. This national in cass up on his shoulders and lugged vestigation will he financed out of it over the steep htlls for more the federal aid funds normally held than a mile. by the Fish and Wildlife Service Nothing is harder to handle than for administration of the federal a fresh-killed deer; it's just plumb aid program, and will cost $134,000. dead a ll over. With every step the A State Survey buck's heavy head swung and prod ded our hunter with 16 antler While information in the nation tines. He didn't dare put the deer al survey is of interest to Iowans, down or he'd never have gotten it leaves some questions of stale started again, and he carried his Rex Pendry Photo. wide importance unanswered, and This batte red young c: eda r, surro unded by tra mpled sod, Is sure d eer sign. Vet era n hunt· gun by crooking two fingers the Iowa Conservation Commission ers wa tc:h for suc:h c:lu es a nd often ma ke pre-hunt surveys of a n area to dete rm ine where through the trigger guard. By the has requested Crossley Surveys to the de er a re and to lea rn the la y of the la nd. time the young hunter reached the make a concurrent survey for the road he was almost a s dead as the use of Iowa alone. Since the mate deer. H e also ran the rtsk of being rial for Iowa's use will be gathered What Is A Good All-Around Shot? shot by another hunter, but he at the same time as the national probably would have welcomed information, the Iowa survey will What constitutes a good all He may be a crack shot in the field, that. cost $17,000, far less than normal. around shot? This complimentary but unable to master the clay tar A veteran deer hunter might According to the Conservation title has been bestowed on many get sports. It is entirely possible, have turned the animal on its back Commission, our outdoor recreation sportsmen, but too often the term as experience has proved time and and extended the front legs for has become big business, involving has been carelessly or unthinking again, for him to be one of the ward. Then a stout 3-foot stick millions of dollars and hundreds of ly used. leading shots in small bore rifle could be slipped beneath the head thousands of Iowans of all ages. To qua lify as a really GOOD all shooting competition and still lose to support it and keep it from Like any big business, it is neces around shot, the gunner must be his composure entirely at the flush flopping. The front legs of the deer sary to know something of the quite versatile in more shooting of a covey of quail or the sight of would be lashed firmly to the stock inventory and the activities departments than the average per a running deer. He can rank high stick. The hunter could then back of the customers. son realizes. To be worthy of the with the shotgun and rUle and yet, up to the deer, bend down, and Inventories of stock-our fish distinction which the term GOOD figuratively speaking, be unable to straighten up with a good hold on and game--are already kept by all-around shot implies, the shooter hit a barn door with a hand gun. the carrying stick and walk away, state biologists and conservation must be proficient in the use of all And so he could not qualify as a sliding the deer behind him. If r officers who observe trends in fish types of sporting firearms and in GOOD all-around shot. there were two hunters, one for· 4 • and game populations. But the ac all kinds of shooting. So the next time you refer to each end of the short drag stick, I ...-'j !I (I __.. tions of the customers- Iowa hunt A man may be a top-flight clay some friend as "a GOOD all the deer could be easily skidded for· ......... ~ltl· ers and anglers~are somewhat target shooter, both at the traps around shot" it might be well to miles, especially on snow e~~urir.; hazy and a re not accurately re- and skeet, but pretty much of a take another look-see or qualify But all of this come.s later in the tContinued on page 184) dud with a target rUle in his bands. (Continued on pa~e 183) 1 Continued on paze 182) Page 178 IOWA CONSERVATIONIST Iowa Conservationist goose calling champion at Missour1 - P b 1shed H ontn 1 by the Valley on October 2. lOW A CONSERVATION COMMISSION Clarence Faulk, 52, of L ake East 7th and Court -Des Moines, Iowa C'harles, Louisiana, has hunted (No R1ghts Reserved) ducks and geese since he was 8, LEO A. HOEGH, Governor of Iowa and h1s experience was apparent in BRUCE STILES, Director his goose calling Faulk, a duck JOHN M ADSON. Editor and goose call manufacturer, is the EVELYN b U HER Ass lOt"' Ed1 r father of the thu·d place contest MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION winner, Paul "Dud" Faulk, who Gt:OkGF M Fl.. STl :n l a 1 n a .Ott mwa JOE ST AN :'ON, V1CL U a.1m::m .De.. Momes won the international duck calling MRS. JOHN CRABB .. Jammca contest last year at Crowley, Lou GEORGE V. JECK.................... Spmt Lake FLOYD S. PEARSON ........................ Decorah isiana J. D. REYNOLDS ...........................Creston An esllmated crowd of 7,000 E G TROST Fort Dodge watched Faulk take the crown from the 1954 champion, Frank CIRCULATION THIS ISSUE 52,500 Heidelbauer of Ankeny. The senior Sub ;cnpt n rate. 40c per year Faulk rece1ved a $1,000 U. S. Sav Th ree Ye ars Sl.OO Entered a ;ec• >nd cia matter at the mgs Bond and the Jimmy Robmson post off ice m De Momt . I •wa September T1ophy for h1s feat Upon receiv 22, 1947, under the Act of March 24, 1912 Subscriptions received at Conservahon mg h1s trophy, Faulk commented CommiSSIOn, East Seventh and Court "DO\>.'n home we pride ourselves on Avenue, Des Moines 9, Iowa. Send cash, ch('ck or money order. om southern hospitality, but it's no warmer than the courtesy and friend::;hip that we've been shown here in Iowa." DEER HUNTING An Iowa n placed second in the REGULATIONS contest with Don Drustrup of MIS souri Valley calling his way to a OPEN SEASON For shotgun trophy and a 14-foot aluminum w1th r1fled slugs only, from boat Third place winner was Aot December 3 through Decem "Dud" Faulk, son of the champion, dilc ber 5. who received a trophy and an auto • loading shotgun DAILY SHOOTING HOURS : Othe1 winners were: For gun hunting, from 9 · 00 Top fi e ld a nd be n(; h honors w ere t a ken in the championship coon hunt by " Ba wlle", a a.m. to 4 :00 p.m. Walke r hound owned by 24-year-old J ames Merchant of Grandchain, Ill inois. 4 Ralph Kohler, Tekamah, Ne • * ~ * braska LI MIT: Dally bag hmit one ( 1) NEW WORLD'S CHAMPIONS 5. Harold Alger, Missouri Val deer; possession limit one (1) CROWNED IN lOWA ley, Iowa deer; season lim1t one ( 1) 6 Eugene Demko. Columbus, bel deer Last month saw two new cham winner was Rock, a redbone male Nebraska heJ WEAPONS· 10-12-16-20 gauge pionships set in Iowa and, Iromcal hound belonging to W.