S19 
November, 1922 
THE COLONEL AND THE 
MUSKIE 
(Continued from page 491) 
head with a club to insure against his 
going overboard. 
We had gone over a mile down- 
stream, across and back several times, 
and when finally landed the gamy old 
battler had come back to within a scant 
hundred yards of where he was hooked, 
and the Colonel sank back, utterly ex- 
hausted and unable to speak for several 
moments, so great had been the strain. 
B y this time word had spread all along 
the river that the Colonel had hooked 
into a muskie. Numerous craft of all de- 
scriptions, canoes, motorboats and ex- 
cursion boats had collected to watch the 
struggle ; but all were thoughtful enough 
to give our boat a wide berth till the fish 
was gaffed, then a cheer went up that 
was a real tribute to the skill of the fish- 
ing Colonel. 
We rowed over to the dock on Wiser’s 
Island, which was now lined with ad- 
miring friends and spectators. Someone 
produced a pair of thirty-pound scales, 
but they proved entirely too light for this 
big fish. So after eating our lunch we 
cut the remainder of the day’s fishing 
short, hoisted the white flag which indi- 
cates that a muskie has been caught, and 
set out for Alexandria Bay, where we 
were stopping. 
The new's of the Colonel's feat had 
preceded us to the hotel, and the man- 
ager laid out a large bed of flow'ers as a 
fitting resting-place for the largest mus- 
kie that had been caught in many years, 
and this with light bass tackle. 
When finally put on the scales the 
muskie weighed just a trifle under forty 
pounds and wms fifty-one inches in 
lensfth. 
DUCK SHOOTING GUNS 
AND LOADS 
(Continued from page 500) 
shoot full choke, modified choke, or cylin- 
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% ounces of 6’s. Its killing power, par- 
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probably more than twice as great, pro- 
vided the shot had equal muzzle veloci- 
ties. 
One and one-fourth ounces of 4’s in 
a 12 are just midway in patterning ability 
between % ounces of 5’s and pi ounces 
of 6’s; lY ounces of 4’s will always out- 
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The heavy load of 1)4 ounces of 5’s 
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at short range, but at all long ranges the 
better carrying power of the larger size 
throw' the denser pattern. 
The late E. T. Martin, who was one 
of the most observant of our past gener- 
ation of market gunners, always claimed 
that in most decoy duck shooting pattern 
was more necessary than velocity. Con- 
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