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...season opened with a bang. Some 100,000 huntsmen (the manpower of more than six full-strength divisions) made a mass assault on the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. The weather was a bit too warm, foliage cut down visibility, and there had been no early snows to drive deer and elk from the high areas. But the early-season shooting was fairly good nonetheless. Stalking through the valleys, over barren ridges, through clumps of quaking aspen and oak brush, across rocky peaks, the luckier hunters had plenty of chances at game...
Their crashing fusillades prompted worried ranchers to stable their saddle horses, bring the stock closer to home. One rancher tied red ribbons on the antlers of his pet deer, explained: "Without these, all of 'em would shoot at him; with these not more'n ten dudes'll kill him at the same time." Seasoned huntsmen worried about "sound-shots." Explained one: "A sound-shot is a weird guessing game invented by city men. They hear something in the brush and shoot. Then they look to see what they got. It's just...
General Jonathan M. Wainwright dashed off a quick acceptance when the Boar, Bear & Deer Hunters Club of Bradley County, Tenn. invited him to hunt wild pigs in the Joyce (Trees) Kilmer Memorial Forest...
...quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial Groucho Marx; on such comedy shows as Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here, the labored pun flourishes even more richly than in the U.S. (sample: "What are we hunting for?" "Herd of deer, my lord." " 'Course I've heard of deer-big things like horses with a hatrack on their foreheads...
...real Viking ship in a museum in Bygdoy; from that moment Sten knew what course he must sail. Last year, when Sten was a 37-year-old lamp factory worker in Stockholm, he saw his chance. A big sports exposition was to be held in Stockholm's deer park and the committee wanted to build a gondola to take visitors round the lake. Sten went to the committee meeting, pleaded history's cause and sold them on the idea of a Viking craft instead. The committee granted him 5,000 kroner ($1,000), and he went to work...