The Sandy Post
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Sandy, O regon
It Y Ivan H arker
BARKER'S POT SHOTS
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The d e er season, is over
except for a few cpntrolled
h u n ts in specific areas to be
h u n ted by those lucky enough
to draw perm its. From all in
dications th e general season
w as a good one despite th e
confusion in
Salem at the
beginning.
G am e biologists
rep o rt
th a t h u n tin g
pressu re w as
not up to p a r d u rin g the first
and second w eek ends, w ith
no heavy concentrations of
h u n te rs as com pared tcf past
years. H ow ever, in contrast
to past years, the p ressu re
ALUMNI
was co n stan t all d u rin g the
season, w ith the heaviest, of
course,
ex p erien ced
d u rin g
th e few days
w hen e ith e r
sex -an im als could be taken.
T hroughout th e state d eer
h u n tin g w as considered good
w ith probably th e
highest
kill m ade d u rin g e ith e r-se x
hunt. A lthough th e to tal kill
w ill not be d eterm in ed u n til
all re p o rt card s have been
retu rn ed , th e gam e com m is
sion feels the d e er
season
w as a successful one.
The
kill m ay not be as high as
th a t of the past tw o y ears
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T hursd ay, N ovem ber 21, 1957
b u t in all p ro b ab ility w ill
be close to the 100,000 m ark.
It m ig h t be a good op p o r
tu n ity to advise d e er h u n te rs
to get those re p o rt card s in
as soon as possible- These
should be re tu rn e d w h e th er
you k illed a d e e r o r not. All
cards are needed in o rd e r to
accu rately d eterm in e th e to
ta l kill.
For those of you w ho do
not know , th e reg u latio n s re
q u ire th a t h u n te rs re tu rn the
rep o rt cards w ith in 30 days
follow ing
the close of th e
season.
F a ilu re
to do so
could resu lt in being denied
a h u n tin g license n e x t year.
So le t’s get on th e ball and
re tu rn the cards-
We have ju st m ade a tally
of the h u n tin g casualties fo r
th is y e a r and find w e have
had 19 shooting accidents so
far.
The sad p a rt of these
shootings is th a t 3 of th e 19
w ill h u n t no m ore having
died a violent d e ath
from
gunshot w ounds.
It m ig h t bp of in te re st to
know th a t 12 of th e w o u n d -
ings w ere caused by persons
24 y ears old or un d er. The
o th er shootings w ere caused
by tw o persons of 27 years,
one of 42 years, one of 45
years, and th e last th re e u n
know n,
P erh ap s h u n te rs m ay be
a little m ore cau tio u s if we
took a look at som e of these
shootings ju s t to u n d e rstan d
how they happened. In m ost
all cases w e can
put
the
blam e on plain carelessness.
In one of the deaths, th e
shooter w as w alking behind
w ith his w eapon pointed at
th e v ictim 's back. A nd one
of the card in al ru les of gun
safety is
not to
point a
w eapon at an y th in g you do
not wish to’ shoot.
T ere’s a n o th e r victim shot
th ro u g h th e stom ach w ith a
30-30 rifle w hen his p a rtn e r
saw a m ovem ent and th o u g h t
it was a deer. The victim
was w earing blue levis, blue
denim ja c k e t open a t th e
fro n t over a red flannel sh irt,
and had on a b rig h t yellow
cap.
A nother victim ended up
w ith a sh attere d leg w hen his
h u n tin g p a rtn e r looked th ru
th e telescope on his 30-06
rifle and thought he saw a
deer. D istance w as ab o u t 20
yards.
These a re ju st a few illu s
tra tio n s tak en from th e state
police h u n te r
casu alty re
ports- S everal m ore occurred
w hen the shooter w as w a lk
ing along w ith
e ith e r th e
w ill be located n e a r A storia.
C o n stru ctio n of th is m o d em
fish ery p la n t should be u n
d e r w ay by e arly spring.
Since th e
G n at C reek %
h atch e ry w ill be b u ilt w ith
funds
from th e
C olum bia
R iv er program , all steelh ead
re a re d w ill be stocked in
stream s w hich form th e Co
lum bia system . These,
of
course, include th e C latsk a-
nine,
Youngs,
W illam ette,
Sandy, Hood, D eschutes, and
o th e r stre am s and th e ir t r i
b u ta rie s
w hich em p ty into
W ell, the O ntario gam e th e Colum bia.
farm is a thing of th e past
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and w ill no longer be in p ro
duction re a rin g upland gam e
birds fo r the h u n te r’s guns.
L ast m o n th the gam e com
m ission sold this pheasant
re a rin g area and tra n sfe rre d
EU G ENE — O regon’s a n
all operations to the m odern
n u al football civil w a r to be
H erm iston establishm ent.
staged on H ay w ard field h ere
th is S a tu rd a y is sh ap in g up
T his is th e tim e of y ear as one of th e m ost b itte rly
w hen on y o u r day off if it contested g rid iro n b a ttle s b e
rain s and is nasty you go tw een th e tw o state in s titu
duck h u n tin g and if it’s clear tions in m an y years.
you go steelhead fishing. T uff
The Ducks,
w ho w ere
life isn’t it?
tick eted fo r last place in th e
F rom all indications we coast conference
th is y e ar
are going to have a fishing by sp o rts w rite rs g en erally ,
parson in Sandy. Don Livesay is now lead in g th e pack, w ith
is tak in g to the spinning reel six w ins and one d efeat in
and rod like a b ird dog on coast conference play. O re
a quail track. We couldn’t gon last w eek w on its rig h t
th in k of a fin er guy to go to re p re se n t th e coast in th e
fishing w ith. M aybe w hen we Rose B ow l on N ew Y e ar’s
loose th a t big one th e air day w hen it tro u n ced S o u th
w on’t be q u ite so blue if Don ern C alifornia.
is along.
The B eavers fro m O regon
Jo h n M itchell w as re p o rt S tate can tie O regon as co
ed as ta k in g a couple of nice cham pion of th e conference
silvers last w eek end. Jo h n if it d efeats th e D ucks, b u t
is .a m a ste r at tak in g the big if O regon w ins, as it is fa v o r
ones in th e Sandy.
ed to do, it w ill hold u n d is
We have had no rep o rts p u ted title to th e coast foot
of any steelhead being cau g h t ball crown-
in th e Sandy
yet.
H arold
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Edes cam e up w ith a dandy
cu th ro a t ab o u t 18 inches.
B ob Sm ith T o A ttend
Slim S m ith b ro u g h t in a
nice Chinook. Took Slim Ts T o u rn a m en t In R eno
little w om an about a half a
Bob Sm ith, v e te ra n Sandy
day to get over th e shock tra p sh o o te r and p re sid en t of
and realize th a t
Slim had th e Sandy G un club,
le ft
really cau g h t th e fish. W ent T uesday fo r Reno, w h ere he
som ething like this.
w as to p a rtic ip a te in th e N e
S lyn p ro u d ly carry in g th e vad a sta te trap sh o o tin g to u r
fish cam e up to the house. n am en t w hich w as to s ta rt
“W h at’s th a t? ”, says Mrs. W ednesday and co n tin u e th ru
Sm ith.
th e w eekend.
‘‘A salm on”, says Slim.
S m ith has been atte n d in g
“W here did you get it? ”
th e R eno m eet each fall fo r
“I cau g h t it of c o u rs e ”, th e past sev eral y ears and
yelled Slim .
has b ro u g h t hom e a n u m b e r
of tro p h ies to show for his
A new fish h atch e ry w ill prow ess as a m ark sm an .
soon be u n d e r construction
in O regon w hich w hen corn
’d ?ted w ill be one
of the
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m ost m odern rearin g p lan ts
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in existance. This is the G nat
C reek h atch ery , now in th e
THE SANDY POST
final plan n in g stage,
w hich
safety off or th e
ham m er
cocked, a p ractice fo r w hich
th e re is no excuse.
B ut probably th e m ost
ironic of the lot w as a h u n t
e r w ho sta te d he had a bad
h ab it of placing th e m uzzle
of his gun on his foot and
leaning on it w hile w atching
fo r game. On this p a rtic u la r
occasion the h am m er w as
back and th e gun discharged
w hen he touched the trig
ger,
Beavers, Ducks
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