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him first the right and then the left barrel and made two 
perfectly good misses. 
““Now throw the gun at him!” laughed Bogardus. 
“You might get him that way.’’ 
Bogardus pushed with hardly a stop except to pick up 
birds, for a couple of hours. He was a giant of a man, 
six feet two, and weighed over two hundred pounds of 
bone and muscle. He did not seem a bit tired when we 
stopped for lunch at noon. After lunch with cigars 
going we got talking about difficult shots and Bogardus 
said he thought flight shooting on single teal about the 
most difficult proposition he knew in duck shooting, 
whereupon I asked: 
“Do you aim the same way you told me to when you 
shoot ducks?” 
‘Well, no, not exactly,” he replied. ‘‘I am a pretty 
quick shot; as near as I can tell I aim ten inches to three 
feet in front of the duck’s bill, according to the duck’s 
speed and distance. I don’t bring my gun to a stand- 
still when I shoot as you do, but keep the gun barrels 
moving along with the duck when I fire. The way I 
taught you is the easiest for beginners. If you have a 
natural gift for shooting you will find it will come out 
with practice.”’ 
‘““There’s another thing,’”’ I said, ‘‘that I am curious 
about. ”’ 
““What is it?’’ Bogardus asked. 
‘““Do you shoot with one or both eyes open?”’ 
Bogardus laughed as he answered, ‘‘Hanged if I 
always know on ducks, sometimes one eye open and 
sometimes both, according to the position of the bird. 
In shooting pigeons I can safely say I always shoot with 
both eyes open.”’ 
As we were rowing towards the place selected for the 
