It’s always interesting to take a step back and see where we have come from. Most of us are focused on the here-and-now and what is coming up tomorrow. Very seldom do we gaze into the past see what life was like.

A few weeks ago, a friend of my father dropped off something quite interesting for him to look at. It was a copy of the Game and Fish Code of Illinois. It was dated July, 1919.

For those that really love to hunt and fish, the issuance of the new hunting and fishing digests are important. It give us a chance to see what laws and regulations have changed, what the dates and bag limits for different species are and also it gives us a chance to brush up some of the laws we may have forgotten. I could hardly wait to crack open this piece of history and compare today with the regulations of yesterday.