3!3 



^^'^^ AMERICAN 



Wild-Fowl Shooting. 



CONTAINING 



FULL AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS 



OF THE 



HAUNTS, HABITS, AND METHODS OF SHOOTING WILD-FOWL, 



PARTICULARLY THOSE OF THE WESTERN 



STATES OF AMERICA. 



INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING 



Guns, Bliids, Boats, and Decoys, 



THE TRAmiNG OF WATER-EETRIEVERS, ETC. 



THE TRUE HISTORY OP 



CHOKE-BORES, THE THEORY OF THEIR ACTION ON THE CHARGE ; 

 CONSTRUCTION, LOADING, ETC. 



WITH A CORRECT METHOD OF 



TESTING THE SHOOTING POWERS OF SHOT-GUNS. 



JOSEPH AY. LONG. 



NEW YOKK: 



ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 



245 BROADWAY. 



1879. 



