October, 1919 
FOREST AND S T R E A IM 
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changes, they seem loath to leave, and 
often remain feeding until the incom- 
ing water lifts them off their feet. Even 
then they will often stay on, provided 
the water at flood tide is not so deep as 
to prevent them from reaching the grass 
Fy thrusting their heads and necks under 
the surface. Unlike the sea ducks, the 
brant do not dive for food; they never 
dive except sometimes as a means of 
escape when wounded. 
T he same guns used for geese and 
ducks are used for brant shooting. 
The sportsman who owns a 10- 
gauge may use it to advantage, but a 
full-choked 12-gauge, when properly 
loaded, will, in the hands of a fair shot, 
account for all the birds allowed in a 
day’s bag as now limited by law in many 
states. Number 4 shot will prove sat- 
isfactory under ordinary conditions. If 
the fowl are unusually wild, the shoot- 
ing at long range and the wind strong, 
number 2 shot will be more effective. I 
have used number 5’s on brant and at 
other times as large shot as BB’s, and 
also the intermediate sizes. 
The smaller sizes of shot are effected 
by a strong wind to a much greater 
extent than are the larger sizes. There- 
fore, in very windy weather the large 
shot is best, since the heavy pellets carry 
straighter and maintain their velocity 
and penetration at killing ranges better 
than the lighter pellets. I have dropped 
brant dead upon the water with B and 
BB shot in a full-choked 12-gauge at 
very long ranges, where, had 4’s or 5’s 
been used, I believe the result at best 
would have been only a wounded bird. 
On the other hand, too large size shot 
for the gun in question should not be 
used, since a killing pattern or spread 
of shot is then sacrificed. A dense pat- 
tern of number 4’s, where the pellets 
are evenly distributed over the area of 
the spread of shot, will more surely ac- 
count for a bird than will a poor pattern 
of B shot, where the pellets are so few 
as to leave many places in the area of 
the spread of shot through which a bird 
could fly unhit. 
Generally speaking, BB’s or even B 
shot are too large to produce an effective 
pattern when used in the average 12- 
gauge gun. I happen to own a full- 
choked 12-gauge which shoots unusually 
hard and close, and this gun handles 
shot as large as BB’s with good results. 
Different guns of the same gauge, and 
even of the same amount of choke, often 
handle different sizes of shot the best. 
By shooting loads of different sizes of 
shot at a large paper target, set up at 
an average range at which the shoot- 
ing of the birds will be done, the sports- 
man can determine just what sizes his 
gun handles to the best advantage. The 
matter of guns, blinds and decoys, as re- 
gards wild-fowl shooting in general, will 
be more fully considered in the forth- 
coming article on duck shooting. 
I N looking over some old hunting notes, 
by way of checking up a memory that 
can hardly forget days spent with the 
gun, I find the account of an experience 
I had with brant on the bay some years 
ago which I will mention here. 
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