California Condor Fellman P: 330 Eben McMillan 21 September 1963 I left home at 2:30 A.M. The sky was clear, it was warm and mild. Even before daybreak I saw several automobiles on 99 Highway South of Bakersfield that were loaded with red coated and capped persons whom I felt were heading for the mountain areas to the East of highway 99 where the late deer hunting season opened this morning. I arrived in Fillmore, in Ventura County, at daybreak and motored up the Sespe Corridor arriving at Cow Springs prior to sunrise. One Chevrolet pickup truck and one, old, Chevrolet touring car were parked in the swale that forms the basin where the side-road going to Bucksnort Camp of Mr. Hatter. The occupants of these vehicles had already departed Northward along the roadway that continues by past Mr. Hatters Bucksnort Camp and out to a dead-end in a flat at the edge of the Wildlife Sanctuary, and on the divide between the Sespe and the Agua Blanca Water drainages. A brisk Northeast wind commenced blowing across the Chaparral as soon as the Sun came up. The hunters, when leaving their vehicles, passed around the locked gate on the hill one hundred feet up the Bucksnort Road. At 7:45 A.M., while standing on the knoll that stands to the right of the Bucksnort Road and is about one hundred yards north of the Swale where the hunters' vehicles, and my pickup, were parked, I heard six shots fired in slow succession out towards the North. I could make no sighting of hunters in the area from where the shots came from. It sounded as though these shots were coming from close by, or just beyond the limits of the Wildlife Sanctuary. shooting