ine game preserve of his own, should be of general
interest. It was written to G.O. Shields, March 21, 1906.

DEAR SIR:

Regarding the use of the automatic shot-gun, would say that I am a
member of two southern ducking clubs where these guns are used very
extensively. I have seen a flock of ducks come into a blind where
one, two, or even three of these guns were in use, and have seen as
many as eleven shots poured into a single flock.

We have considerable poaching on one of these clubs, the territory
being so extensive that it is impossible to prevent it. We own
60,000 acres, and these poachers, I am told, nearly all use the
automatic guns. They frequently kill six or eight ducks out of one
flock--first taking a raking shot on the water, and then getting in
the balance of the magazine before the flock is out of range. In
fact, some of them carry two guns, and are able to discharge a part
of the second magazine into the same flock.

As I told you the other evening, I am not so much against the gun
when in the hands of gentlemen and real sportsmen, but, on account
of its terrible possibilities for market hunters, I believe that the
only safe way is to abolish it entirely, and that the better class
should be willing to give up this weapon as being the only means of
putting a stop to this willful game slaughter.

Very truly yours,

ARTHUR ROBINSON.

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HOW GENTLEMEN SPORTSMEN REGARD AUTOMATIC AND PUMP GUNS

Each one of the following organizations, chiefly clubs of gentlemen
sportsmen, have adopted strong resolutions condemning the use of
automatic guns in hunting, and either requesting or recommending the
enactment of laws against their use:

New York Zoological Society ... Henry Fairfield Osborn, President
The Camp-Fire Club of America ... Daniel C. Beard, President
Boone and Crockett Club ... W. Austin Wadsworth, President
New York State Fish, Game and Forest League ... 81 Clubs and Associations
New York Association for the Protection of Fish and Game
... Alfred Wagstaff, President
Lewis and Clark Club ... John M. Phillips, President
League of American Sportsmen ... G.O. Shields, President
Wild Life Protective Association ... W.T. Hornaday, President

WHERE AUTOMATIC GUNS ARE BARRED OUT BY LAW

PENNSYLVANIA, 1907
NEW JERSEY, 1912
SASKATCHEWAN, 1906
NEW BRUNSWICK, 1907
BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1911
ONTARIO, 1907
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