Rod and gun . heir autumn varj locally in hunting andshooting the same species, while theopen water work is vastly different inmany of its features from the marshprogram. Let us first state, as an admittedaxiom, that there are two distinctfeatures in the duck t(uestion, in sofar as the sjiortsman is is, first, duck hiinling and thenfollows duck shouting; needless topoint out, the first factor is essential before any large degree of success inthe shooting can result. In short, ifone expects to kill a big limit of birds,he must first—at this day of thous-ands of
Rod and gun . heir autumn varj locally in hunting andshooting the same species, while theopen water work is vastly different inmany of its features from the marshprogram. Let us first state, as an admittedaxiom, that there are two distinctfeatures in the duck t(uestion, in sofar as the sjiortsman is is, first, duck hiinling and thenfollows duck shouting; needless topoint out, the first factor is essential before any large degree of success inthe shooting can result. In short, ifone expects to kill a big limit of birds,he must first—at this day of thous-ands of guns afield and scatteredbirds, (yearly showing thinnedranks)—learn from experience theway to hunt duck. We were camped on a twistingstream that stretched past our tentand wound on out through the wav-ing rice to the lake, a mile away. Averitable water-farm of almost twothousand acres of rice fifteen yearsago man>-, man> thousand huskyblack duck, teal and wood-duckhomed therein and reared their Big Pond—A Favorite Spot for Duck to Feed in—200 yards In the RiceA Twisting Stream Stretclied Tfirougli tlie Waving Rice to the Lalie mer broods. Today only a small, avery small remnant of this horde re-mains, and these are unbelievablycunning in Iheir wariness. Seeyonder. Kid,—Jonathan remarks,—that bunch of blacks coming in forthe night. Thats where the big rafthave fed all week. If we get an eastwind tomorrow, it will be someshooting; without it, they will drawin wide and scatter. The sun wasdropping over the woods to the west,and standing up in the little duck-boat I could see a cloud of blackduck as they circled and on setscimitar-wings pitched to the bigpools 200 yards in the rice. BigPond, as it was known locally, wasfor many years a favorite spot for theduck to feed and, with an east wind,they pitched on certain days (if onlii we could forc-iell those days!) in asteady flight. Prospects that eveningpointed to the longed-for easier—thesun sank in a gold
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