WITH BOGARDUS AND KLEINMAN 13 
possibly could, but when the boys with breech loaders 
began bringing three birds to my two I ordered a breech 
loader.’? Then suddenly he said, ‘“‘Look east.” A 
dozen mallards were coming. They came to the decoys 
in splendid style. As they came within shot I dropped 
one; the rest dodged in every direction and I was slow 
in getting in my second barrel; finally I fired and a duck 
fell. .‘‘Humph,” said Kleinman, ‘‘they will fly into it 
sometimes.’”’ Kleinman walked out and came back 
with the duck. 
‘That was a long shot,’’ he announced; “‘seventy-two 
steps; we market men rarely shoot at such a distance, 
can’t afford to waste ammunition. You must have a 
chokebore gun.”’ 
‘The left barrel is full choke, the right half choke,’’ I 
said. 
“T thought it must be from that shot,” remarked 
Kleinman. ‘‘One barrel of my gun is open, the other 
half choke; later on in the season, when the ducks get 
wilder and the canvasbacks and redheads begin com- 
ing, I use my full choke pair of barrels; but as I was 
saying, I ordered my breech loader with a three and 
a quarter inch drop, like the gun Bogardus has. When 
it came it had a two and a half inch drop. I was as 
mad as a hornet.”’ 
‘‘What did you do?”’ I asked. 
‘“‘Nothing, kept the gun. The longer I had it the 
more I liked it. You see I shoot pretty quick. I see 
the duck, note his direction and velocity of flight, and 
then shoot, calculating my shot and the duck will reach 
a certain spot together, as they generally do. I never 
see the sight on my new gun and I can shoot it quicker 
and like it better than my old one.”’ 
“T think you and Bogardus could shoot pretty 
