Use Manners When Hunting

Hunters, don’t leave your good manners at home. Take them with you, along with your other necessities. –Image from Etiquipedia private library

Hunters Allowed Forest Freedom If Rules Observed

You may be reasonably “wild and woolly” when you go camping or hunting in national forests of the California regions, but don’t leave your good manners at home. Take them with you! 

P. C. Case, district ranger of Los Padres national forest, declares that the hunter or sportsman will need real sportsmanlike manners more on his vacation or hunting trip than when at home. 

The rules of conduct in the forests, as given by the U. S. forest service, are easy to learn and not impossible to observe easily. They are: 

• Obtain a free camp-fire permit.

• Carry a shovel and an ax.

• Smoke only in camp, places of habitation, or special posted smoking areas.

• Camp only at designated campgrounds and use the stoves provided.

• Open fires are not permitted. Be sure your camp-fire is out.

• Leave and maintain a clean and sanitary camp.

• Cooperate with the forest rangers and state fire wardens in reporting and suppressing forest fires.

• Observe the state fish and game laws.

• Possession or use of tracer ammunition is prohibited by federal regulation in all national forests. 

• Don't shoot unless you are sure you see the horns. 

• Be very careful in handling your gun and ammunition. – King City Rustler, 1939

 

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