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...police found Hunter Gianerone scrambling over the fence to reach his kill. They arrested him, explained to him that not only had he killed an animal in sanctuary, but that the animal was an elk, everywhere protected in New York. Ignoramus Gianerone said he had thought it was a deer. Then he tried to deny having shot it. He was fined $102.50, his comrades $52.50 each...
Last week massive President Olin was in New Haven. In the arms & munitions industry New Haven has long meant but one thing: Winchester. Since Civil War days Winchester has been one of the foremost names in the U. S. firearms business. Its .30-.30 became the standard deer rifle, its .405 caliber rifle was known from the day it was first sold as death to moose and elk, its 45-.90 probably killed more buffaloes than any other firearm. The company was one of the pioneers in the popular .22 rifle field, has also been a big maker of ammunitions...
...well known in Brooklyn that, when his team is losing, citizens stop him on the street, tell him to wear a hat because his brains are dusty. When the directors held their meeting, he was at Dover Hall, his estate in Georgia, where he spends the winters hunting deer, ducks, or turkey, and tippling old corn whiskey with his friends. Though he grunted when he heard the news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging his discharge for years. Another faction in the Club...
...dogs have enabled the killing or capture alive of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, tapirs, giant armadillas, deer, anacondas, and a very rare Brazilian red wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). Except for Buck and Bill whom alligators killed, the dogs escaped serious mauling by game. Old Jake, 6, their leader, had his right ear clawed by a jaguar. It had to be amputated. Old Jake was responsible for 17 jaguars, six pumas, twelve ocelots. Prior to this Matto Grosso hunt, when he lived in Arizona, he had to his credit 60 pumas. 26 black bears, two grizzlies, bobcats galore. If Old Jake comes...
...Works & Public Buildings Office ordered that, as a measure of economy, the deer in Richmond Park are no longer to be fed by keepers in gold-braided silk hats; they must wear ordinary peaked caps...