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FOREST AND STREAM 
August, 1920 
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Twenty gauge pattern 34 oz. No. 8 shot 
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OVERLOADED 
SHOTGUNS 
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is no doubt that there is an advantage 
in being able to spray the air with shot, 
but trapshooting is not field shooting, the 
conditions are all different and no one 
realized this more thoroughly than the 
redoubtable Captain. He was recognized 
as one of the greatest field shots of his 
day and had killed thousands of birds for 
market in those days of unrestricted 
shooting. Here is what he had to say 
about loading for the field: 
“In loading a gun of ten gauge for 
grouse I put into my cartridges four and 
a half or five drams of powder and an 
ounce of No. 9 shot, in the early part of 
the season. Later on I use No. 8 shot, 
and still later No. 7. In November and 
December, for the shooting of grouse and 
duck, I charge with No. 6. Some use 
larger shot for ducks, but a charge of 
No. 6 from a good gun, well held, will 
stop a duck as far off as seventy yards 
sometimes. With a strong charge of 
powder and shot of moderate size there is 
greater penetration, and a better chance 
of hitting besides. When I go out ex- 
pressly for brant and geese, I load my 
cartridges with No. 2; but when out for 
general shooting, I have killed many 
brant and some geese with No. 6. For 
quail-shooting I use No. 8 or No. 9; for 
plover. No. 8; for snipe, No. 10.” 
Today at the traps the favorite load 
is 114 oz. of shot. It is entirely too 
heavy for a 12 gauge gun, although a 
powerful man whose muscles are well 
trained may be able to stand up under a 
couple of hundred shots in an afternoon, 
the average individual is unable to do 
so. He may be game for one or two 
afternoons, but the chances are that his 
experience at the traps will leave him 
with a bruised shoulder and a disturbed 
nervous system. We haven’t the re- 
motest desire to get into an argument 
with any of the aforesaid old veterans 
who stick to the big loads at shoot after 
shoot. We are perfectly willing to con- 
cede that they have proven the back- 
bone and the main support of the sport 
for many years, but we do believe that 
if trapshooting is to attain greater popu- 
larity, more consideration will have to be 
shown to the other fellow, the man of 
less powerful physique and more sensi- 
tive nervous system. He never has and 
never will be able to stand up under the 
nerve-racking loads now in use. 
THE MUCH PRIZED 
CHANNEL BASS 
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T HE channel bass is a generous feed- 
er and can be taken with a variety 
of baits. Shedder crabs are always 
good, while at times menhaden bait holds 
a special charm. Squid, when properly 
cleaned, is a very reliable and economical 
bait, and is much used as well as the 
large sea clams. No matter what bait 
may be used, the portion should be gen- 
erous in size and frequently examined to 
see that sea spiders and other pests have 
not destroyed its appearance. In using 
pieces of menhaden it is always well to 
wrap the bait to the hook with linen 
thread three or four times around hook 
and bait, drawing the thread fairly tight; 
:his aids in keeping the bait on the hook, 
as the flesh of the menhaden is very soft 
and oily. When the spot is chosen for 
the endeavor, which should be in a deep 
cut or basin along the beach, and the 
bait placed just where the water is leap- 
ing and tumbling after the break over 
the bar, for at such a place the quarry 
is most apt to be met with, then patience, 
that prime necessity of the surf fisher- 
man, must be exercised. It may be min- 
utes, hours or even days before final re- 
ward comes, but when it does there is 
no mistaking the token. Rarely does the 
channel bass take the bait with a snap 
and a rush like the striped bass or blue- 
fish. Like a coquette bandying with 
hearts this prize fish is coy of baits, and 
his first approach is apparently an inves- 
tigation as to whether it is entirely to his 
liking. Once the touch travels down the 
line to the rod-hand it is never mistaken 
for another signal. Gently the bait is 
picked up, moved a few inches, then al- 
lowed to lie quiet for a few seconds as 
if the fish was determining or consider- 
ing the advisability of continuing the in- 
vestigation; then a drawing motion is 
felt along the line followed frequently by 
a sort of pecking at the desirable morsel. 
The man of experience knows that to 
strike at this period would be futile and 
nervously awaits further action. The 
fish apparently satisfied that all is well 
starts to swim away with the bait, then 
the rod is brought sharply up and the 
r.ook firmly set in the tough leathery jaw. 
This is the moment of supreme anxiety, 
as well as joy, to the man with the rod. 
The first thought is: “How well is he 
hooked?” The next: “Have I line 
enough?” The bronze torpedo goes flash- 
ing through the waves and the humming 
reel pays off line with lightning-like 
speed. Away goes the alarmed fish ; two, 
three, at last five hundred feet of the line 
is out, and the bronze back gleaming 
through the smother of green water like 
burnished copper still is going, but the 
man at the rod knows that with each foot 
of line now taken the weight is intensified 
on the fish and so bides the time when 
there will come a perfect balance away out 
there between the powers of the fish and 
the spring of the rod. At last he has the 
satisfaction of seeing his game turn ab- 
ruptly to right or left and begin swim- 
ming parallel with the beach. There 
may be no more than perhaps fifty feet 
of line left on the reel but the chances 
