. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 722 Field sports in Minnesota. 1 I-! >â¢:) i â â i: 1 I ^ : i. GOOSK-IIKCOYS. of the gun at the moment of discharge. Most sportsmen flinch at that supreme moment, and unless the habit is entirely overcome, they cannot expect ever to become good wing shots. The "choke- boring" of guns, in limited use long ago, has only very recently come into favor and rather more general use. Upon the pass or elsewhere, it adds at least one- fourt
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. 722 Field sports in Minnesota. 1 I-! >â¢:) i â â i: 1 I ^ : i. GOOSK-IIKCOYS. of the gun at the moment of discharge. Most sportsmen flinch at that supreme moment, and unless the habit is entirely overcome, they cannot expect ever to become good wing shots. The "choke- boring" of guns, in limited use long ago, has only very recently come into favor and rather more general use. Upon the pass or elsewhere, it adds at least one- fourth more distance to the kill- ing range of the gun. 'This is done by the effect it has upon the "pattern" made by the shot, causing the gun to throw a greater number of shot pellets into a given circle than can be done by the cylinder or straight bore. One barrel of the duck- hunter's gun should surely be bored in this way. Kandiyohi was once famous for its black-duck flights; but of late they seem to have abandoned it, and more mallards, red-heads, and canvas-backs are found here. Vallisneria, often miscalled wild celery (I say miscalled, because it bears no resemblance in taste to the common celery), is beginning to grow thickly in places, in addition to the wild rice, and may account for this fact. It was in this vicinity that the pair of canvas-backs were killed by that veteran sportsman, General H. H. Sibley,âwell known to the readers of the old " Spirit of the Times ' under the nam dc plume of " Hal-a-Dakotah,"âand ')y him sent to his friend "Frank Forrester," thereby settling a controversy between the two gentle- men, and proving conclusively â what Forrester had before denied âthat the true Vallisneria is found away from the sea-coast. To have anything like sport in the pursuit of the common wild goose (Bcrnicla Canadensis), the ordinary methods of hunting water-fowl hardly answer here; besides, the lakes they frequent are n
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