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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A 1951 Plea to Mend Manners

Early disposable picnic and camping utensils were wisely made from wood, not plastic. Wood remains a smart, natural choice over plastic, for the picnicking and camping world’s disposable dining implements, even 70 years after this article was written.

A resolution which many Californians might make, if the comments of the custodians of our state and national parks and of our highway authorities are any guide, is to mend their outdoor manners.

As our seashore, mountain and forest vacation areas fill up with some of the vastly augmented population which has poured into California during the past decade, it becomes more than ever necessary to pick up bottles, cans, paper and other litter and “leave a clean camp” for the next fellow.

At recent meetings where the 1951 vacation season was reviewed, speakers reported that, if anything, worse manners instead of better were on display during the past year. All agreed that unless manners are mended use of the park and recreation areas will become more disagreeable, may have to be curtailed.

Some authorities go so far as to wash their hands of the present generation and say the only hope of improvement is to inculcate good outdoor manners in the rising generation. But whether anything better can be expected from youngsters whose parents set them a horrible example in scattering picnic lunch and camp refuse far and wide, is debatable.

A little consideration and almost negligible effort is all that is required to do your bit in this regard. It is the decent, sporting thing to do and it is essential in a crowded world. Let's all review our conduct and if necessary resolve to mend our outdoor manners in 1952. -Regional News Service, San Francisco, December, 1951

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