Rod and gun . otalled around fivehundred ducks. Was it any wonder thatwe, along with some sixteen others fromvarious parts of Ontario, who fared nobetter, had exactly fifty ducks for a partyof four, for a two weeks stay at this oncefamous resort. Feeding may be an ex-cellent method of insuring good sport butwhen practiced for the purpose of com- and always will remain, an enigma to al!with whom I have discussed the own observation of the work of botharms has conclusively convinced me thatthe six shot pump gun in the hands of apracticed market shooter is a much moreefl^ective instrum
Rod and gun . otalled around fivehundred ducks. Was it any wonder thatwe, along with some sixteen others fromvarious parts of Ontario, who fared nobetter, had exactly fifty ducks for a partyof four, for a two weeks stay at this oncefamous resort. Feeding may be an ex-cellent method of insuring good sport butwhen practiced for the purpose of com- and always will remain, an enigma to al!with whom I have discussed the own observation of the work of botharms has conclusively convinced me thatthe six shot pump gun in the hands of apracticed market shooter is a much moreefl^ective instrument than the five shotautomatic with which to advocate the dis-continuance of the sale of dead wildducks. Before the close of the campaignwaged in New York State against the sell-ing of game, the Game Dealers and HotelMens Associations acknowledged thatwild native game should no longer be soldfor food, a concession that should in-fluence very largely, the contention ofthose who labor under the belief that wild. Rice Bay Club House. merce, absolutely, it constitutes the in-sult upon injury and should decisivelyappeal to the sejitiment that calls for fairplay and a general denunciation of such amercenary and selfish spirit. How longwill the ducks survive such deadly on-slaughts is a question with such an ob-vious answer that conservation seems im-possible unless the marketing be forbid-den by all the provinces and States ofNorth America. How any practical student of gunningcan differentiate between the possibilitiesof the Automatic and the .game .getting ef-ficacy of the repeating or [uimp gun is game is nothing but an edible commodityand not a Providential trust of which wemust render an accoimt to an economic standpoint, which con-sideration is the more worthy to presentto our Governmental authorities, the up-holding and aiding in the certain ultimatedestruction of our wild game life by theleast desirable of our citizens, who renderdubious service to the state an
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