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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1920 
And now 
for Fall Fishing! 
And now for the crisp, snappy days of Septembei — the best an- 
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A MANUAL OF WILD- 
FOWL SHOOTING 
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cient distance. It may be necessary to 
shoot at a point several yards in ad- 
vance of a duck in full flight and passing 
at long range, and even with this “lead”, 
the gun should be kept swinging stead- 
ily ahead at the moment the trigger is 
pulled. Very few ducks are lost by lead- 
ing them too much, many are missed by 
shooting behind them. 
Before we leave the subject of blinds, 
let me warn against the building of too 
large a blind. The blind should be con- 
structed and placed so as to be as small 
and inconspicuous as possible. Only 
enough rushes or bushes, or whatever 
material employed, necessary to hide the 
hunter or hunters should be used. A 
blind which is large and noticeable will 
surely scare the ducks and is, therefore, 
as bad as, or worse, than none at all. 
The material used in building the blind 
should be used sparingly but effectively. 
If the blind is properly placed and con- 
structed, only a small amount of ma- 
ler.al will be found really necessary to 
thoroughly conceal the sportsman — and 
such a blind is hardly noticeable in the 
surrounding cover. 
W HEN concealing the decks of a 
ducking boat used as a blind, the 
cut rushes or grasses should be 
sparingly spread over the decks — thus 
hiding the outlines of the boat and yet 
not making a bulky, unnatural-looking 
heap. 
Sometimes the sportsman, in his de- 
sire to hide, builds a great mound of 
rushes or bushes for a blind, but which 
in itself is all sufficient to scare the 
ducks away. I have seen such blinds — 
seen them from a long way off, and it 
is safe to conclude the ducks could see 
them from as far, — looming up on the 
flat marsh or shore, a fine advertisement 
to the hunter’s presence. It is needless 
to say that the occupant of such a blind 
knew little of duck hunting. 
When brush blinds are built on the 
feeding grounds, out on the open water, 
they are, of course, most conspicuous 
and at first suspicious-looking to the 
ducks. They should, therefore, be built 
as long a time as possible in advance 
of the day when the shooting is to be 
done, so that the ducks may become ac- 
customed to them. The shooting from 
these blinds is often done on only two 
or three days, or less, during a week, 
so as to provide rest days when/^he 
ducks are not disturbed. Constant 
shooting at the same blind day after day 
will often cause the ducks to leave the 
best of feeding grounds. 
Sculling for ducks is an interesting 
method for the sportsman who prefers 
pursuit to ambush. A small, light-draft 
ducking boat is used, the decks of which 
are covered with rushes to conceal it 
and the hunter within from the sharp 
eyes of the ducks. The shooter, propel- 
ling the boat by working a bent oar 
through a greased hole in the stern, 
slowly proceeds over the water, and with 
the use of much care is often able to 
get within range of a flock swin*ming 
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