DUCK SHOOTING. 



PASS SHOOTING. 



Of all methods of duck shooting, that known as pass 

 shooting is perhaps the most difficult and the most 

 sportsmanlike. The gunner stations himself at some 

 point where the ducks are likely to fly, and shoots them 

 as they pass over him. This point may be between two 

 lakes or two portions of a single lake, or between roost- 

 ing and feeding ground, or perhaps only near some 

 lake at which the birds stop on their migrations. At all 

 events, most of the shooting is overhead at swiftly fly- 

 ing birds, and great skill and judgment are required to 

 make a satisfactory bag. 



Sometimes the gunner stands behind some cover of 

 bushes, or he may sit or kneel in a pit dug in the ground, 

 or at times, if the birds are newly arrived, and so are 

 unsuspicious, he may stand out in plain view. How- 

 ever he may be concealed, if the shooter has been for- 

 tunate enough to secure a position in the direct line of 

 flight, he will have interesting shooting, and will prob- 

 ably receive some new ideas as to the swiftness with 

 which a duck passes through the air. 



Graphic accounts of this method of shooting have 

 often been published. One of the best of these which 

 has appeared in recent years, is from the pen of Mr. E. 

 Hough, in Forest and Stream, in which he describes 



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