4 “COME DUCK SHOOTING WITH ME” 
Our idea is to scatter out as much as possible and keep 
the ducks moving. The shooting is pretty fair all over.”’ 
‘“‘Tt’s mostly morning and evening shooting, isn’t it?’ 
“*That’s it on calm, still days, but you get shooting all 
day when the wind blows.”’ 
‘What do you do on calm days?”’ I asked. 
“If there is little wind and the sun is warm, there is 
not much shooting towards noon and we often get a 
couple of hours’ snooze in the middle of the day. When 
it gets too dark to shoot, we pick up and go home.’’ 
‘“‘T suppose you’re pretty tired after supper and glad 
to get to bed.”’ 
“It would make our work mighty easy if that was 
possible, but our real work begins when we get in at 
night,’’ answered Bogardus. 
‘“What do you call real work after rowing round and 
shooting all day?”’ 
‘““The shooting part is all right, there’s some excite- 
ment about it, but when we get back from the day’s 
shooting, tired and wet, an hour or more after dark, 
there’s lots to do. Clean, tie together, and hang up the 
ducks we fetched in, to cool. Wash up, put on dry 
clothes, have dinner, and then spend the evening reload- 
ing these confounded shells. ”’ 
““You don’t like reloading shells?’’ I said. 
““You’re dead right,’’ replied Bogardus. ‘“‘I hate 
it, but market shooters cannot afford to buy loaded 
paper shells and throw them away after shooting. It’s 
a big saving for us to shoot brass shells. My load is 
five drams of powder and one and one half ounces of 
number six shot. I always start out each morning with 
three hundred loaded shells in my shell box.”’ 
‘‘And you reload your shells in the evening after 
your day’s shooting is over?”’ 
