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FOREST AND S T R E A M 
October, 1920 
The big- advantage of Pyramid Solvent 
is that it thoroughly cleans the firearm 
without wearing out the human arm. 
Save s 
Elbow 
Grease 
Pyramid Solvent 
removes residue of high-power smoke- 
less and black powders and loosens metal 
fouling without the hard work you are 
accustomed to. Contains 
no harmful chemical and 
no moisture. 
After Pyramid Solvent, always 
use 3-in-One Oil to prevent ru6t 
and to lubricate. 
Pyramid Solvent is for sale by- 
most firearm dealers, 3 ounces in 
a convenient flat can that fits 
pocket or shooting: kit, 30c per 
can. If your dealer can’t supply 
you, 6end35cand we will send 
you a can postpaid. 
Three-in-one Oil Co 
165 EZG Broadway, New York 
C£17 
RUSSELL’S 
‘NEVER LEAK" 
Thebuilt-for-hard-knocks 
boot that sportsmen 
swear by — soft, easy-fit- 
ting and as near water- 
proof as a leather boot 
can be. 
Made to meas- 
i from best 
q u al it y 
ch rome- 
tanned 
1 eathers. 
Ifyour dealer 
doesn’t carry 
RUSSELL’S, 
wute us for 
a catalog, 
W.C.RUSSELL 
MOCCASIN 
CO. 
612 Wisconsin St. 
ure 
ITHACA 
WINS 
This is F. B. Hillis 
who won over Ken- 
tucky’s best. Mr. 
Hillis will tell you he 
can kill more birds or 
break more targets with 
an Ithaca. 
Our free Catalogue will 
tell you why. 
Double guns for game 
£45.00 up. 
Single barrel trap guns 
$75.00 up. _ 
ITHACA GUN CO. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Box 25 
The Wilbur shotgun peep sight will revolutionize 
wing shotting; no excuse for missing; game birds or 
clay Itirei6. Patented and perfeoted by an old trap 
and field shooter. Teochei the art of wing shooting; 
will increase the score of the trap shooter: corrects 
the faults of old shooters: shows how to lead your 
birds: compels proper handling of gun: puts the 
shooter down on his gun where he belongs; proves 
the correct fitting of your gun. 
Made of blued steel, clamps instantly and rigidly 
on breech of barrels. Fast enough for use in snap 
shooting. Has two openings with center post for 
alignment with ordinary sight at end of barrels. 
Any object seen by the shooter through this sight 
when trigger is pulled, is DEAD — as such object 
must be at the time in shot pattern when gun is 
discharged. On quartering birds lead is shown ab- 
solutely — NO GHFSS WORK. 
MADE IN 12 and 20-GAUGE ONLY. Not made 
for single-barrel or pump guns. 
Price, postpaid, $2.50, with full instructions In 
the art of wing shooting. 
Write for “Treatise Wing Shooting Made Easy.” 
PAT. 
WILBUR GUN SIGHT 
116 West 39th St.. Room 140, New York City. N. Y. 
ShcotWL&outNoise 
Cut out that unnecessary report 
noise. Don’t scare away all the 
other game. Use a 
MAXIM 
SILENCER 
PRSCE, .22 Cal. $7.00 
Send 6c in stamps for catalog 
and booklet of astonishing 
experiences of Silencer users. 
The Maxim Silencer Ce. 
69 Homestead Ave., Hartford, 
Ih KERR gunIung 
WEBBING OR LEATHER FOR ALL RIFLES 
Used by Army , Navy and Marine Corps 
AN AID TO ACCURACY 
Ask your dealer or write us 
MANUFACTURING It SALES CORP. 
40 CEDAR ST. NEW YORK 
inlet. This bar was bare, excepting for 
a thin fringe of rushes on the south side. 
As I looked things over, I saw three 
black ducks, sitting on the bar near 
these rushes, preening themselves, and 
I immediately laid plans to get them. 
Wading the mouth of the inlet I crawled 
on my stomach fully one hundred and 
fifty yards across the sand bar until I 
was within range behind the rushes, 
then I cautiously peeped through. The 
ducks were sitting about three feet 
apart and I could not get two in line, 
so I lay and waited for them to move 
and line up better. I could have killed 
one sitting and one on the wing, but I 
was greedy and wanted them all. After 
a time they seemed to sense danger, and 
holding up their heads looked all around. 
Then they waddled! down off the bar and 
began to swim away, keeping just about 
the same distance apart. I waited until 
they were almost out of range, then hur- 
riedly shot at one on the water, and 
missed, and “scratched” one down with 
a broken wing with the other barrel 
when they rose and it gave me a hard 
chase before I captured it. As I walked 
back across the meadow to the point, I 
pulled out my watch to see the time and 
found it had stopped. This watch was 
an open-faced gold one, willed to me by 
my grandfather, and I prized it highly. 
It developed later that I had squeezed 
it in crawling across the bar, breaking 
several of the jewels. After Uncle and 
I had eaten our lunch, his grouch gradu- 
ally disappeared and he became good 
natured again. About three o'clock in 
the afternoon we saw a flock of small 
ducks coming from Stooling Point. They 
proved to be nine green-winged teal. 
They decoyed nicely and bunching up 
well we killed five of them. The remain- 
ing four passed behind us, toward Crab 
Pond, where one that had been hard hit, 
dropped on the meadow; the remaining 
three then turned back to us and just 
as we had reloaded came over the de- 
coys again and we dropped them all. As 
I waded out to pick them up I found one 
beautiful little drake was winged, and he 
started flapping off on the water, but as 
it was only half knee deep I could wade 
faster than he could go, so he stopped, 
and when I was within perhaps ten 
paces of him he dove and swam off at 
right angles. The water was very clear 
and I could see his every move. Pres- 
ently he stopped again, and I waited for 
him to come up, but as he did not, I 
waded nearer until I could see him plain- 
ly. He was stretched out full length 
and I could not understand what kept 
him under. Out of curiosity I waited, 
and Uncle called to know what was the 
matter. Fully five minutes I stood there, 
then waded over to him, and rolling up 
my sleeve, thrust my hand down in the 
water, and it took quite a twitch to 
bring him away. I found him to be as 
dead as a stone, and a stout stem of 
duck grass, clenched tightly in his bill, 
told me what had kept him down. The 
brave little fellow had preferred death 
to capture and had committed suicide. 
While this was a surprising incident to 
me at the time I have since heard of 
similar cases which have been reported 
by other hunters. 
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