. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. won its way to the heart of the most skeptical sportsman or duck hunter. By their iilea,ns Snipe, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, or Cranes can be perfectly imitated, if the well known kinds be se- lected. The sportsman should however, use care in the selection of those that have not been found by extensive use, t > be perfect. The most well known grades being illustrated in connection with the Blinds and Decoy^ shown elsewhere In the setting out dif decoys, many sportsmen make the mista
. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. won its way to the heart of the most skeptical sportsman or duck hunter. By their iilea,ns Snipe, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, or Cranes can be perfectly imitated, if the well known kinds be se- lected. The sportsman should however, use care in the selection of those that have not been found by extensive use, t > be perfect. The most well known grades being illustrated in connection with the Blinds and Decoy^ shown elsewhere In the setting out dif decoys, many sportsmen make the mistake in arranging them in such posi- tion ducks must necessarily pass over the blinds before they can observe them; this is wrong. Decoys should be always placed so as the ducks will observe the decoys first; otherwise they will surely observe the blinds and detect the fraud; thu^ they will swerve away. Generally speaking, always set your decoys to leeward of your blinds, well into the open waters, where they can be very^ plainly observed by ducks that are on the ; Never set them on the edge of, or in close prox- imity to your blind, but well out into the opening or clear water, where they can be easily observed and plainly kept in sight. In short the whole sec- ret is in arranging your blinds, so as they can not be observed; and in arranging your decoys so as jthey can. The more you can conceal your blinds and the more prominently you can display your decoys, the: better success will attend your Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buzzacott, Francis Henry, 1861- [from old catalog]. [Chicago] M. A. Donohue & co
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