. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . intricate about itthat practice and patience will not overcome. There isno law written or unwritten, sacred or profane, thatprohibits your learning, and if you will only learn, youwill never regret it. For time and again opportunitieswill be presented when other hunters are sitting aroundcamp, Avaiting for the evening flight. With a S(;ull-boat you can have constant shooting throughout theentire day, in open water, along the edges
. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . intricate about itthat practice and patience will not overcome. There isno law written or unwritten, sacred or profane, thatprohibits your learning, and if you will only learn, youwill never regret it. For time and again opportunitieswill be presented when other hunters are sitting aroundcamp, Avaiting for the evening flight. With a S(;ull-boat you can have constant shooting throughout theentire day, in open water, along the edges of wild rice,among the willows and in places inaccessible to everyhunter unless he is sculling, and my experience hasproven that take two hunters, equally skilled asshots, set them hunting in high water, and the onewith the scull will kill twice as many as the one with-out it. 21S WILD FOWL SlKfOliyO. If you are a young huuter, learn by all ineaiit; toscull; if an experienced one, all the more should youlearn to scull, then you will feel your education is com-pleted, and yon will be entitled to a diploma as a grad-uate in wild fowl sliootino-. \\\ VA il ■. CHAPTER XXIV. PIN-TAIL DUCK—SPRIG-TAIL DUCK. (^Anas Acuta.) The pin-tail, or as it is frequently called, the sprig-tailor sharp-tail duck, is one almost as familiar to Westernshooters as the mallard. The}- are a particularly hand-some duck, and their graceful proportions are admiredmore than any other of the duck species. They areswift fiyfers, when inclined to be so, and their long,rakish contour leads one to instantly decide that theyhave the requisite embodiments of all that is necessaryfor great speed. As they stand on some grassy knoll,with their long necks stretched up, showing the per-fect proportions of their long, oval-shaped bodies,terminating at a sharp point at the end of their tails. 210 WIIJ) FOWL SHOOTING. they have the wild, restless appearance of a race-horse,and seem as if they only waited the opportnnit
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