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Floating for Ducks on the French 
Broad. 
THE people of western North Carolina have 
a method of shooting ducks that is, I think, 
practiced nowhere else. As it is usually very 
successful there, probably only the want of the 
necessary geographical conditions prevents its 
more general employment. Numbers of ducks 
coming northward in the spring turn from the 
Ohio into the Tennessee, and so find their way 
into the French Broad. Soon seeing that con- 
tinuing to follow the river is merely returning 
southward, yet unwilling at. first to desert the 
water, they collect in great quantities in the 
neighborhood of Asheville before taking flight. 
Then is the gunner’s chance. Seated in the bow 
of a boat, with a pilot in the stern, he drifts 
down the current, and is hardly ever out of 
sight of a duck while he keeps on the river. 
I took a trip of this kind one spring. Ducks 
had been reported “thick as peas” for two 
weeks, when in a four-mule wagon, with three 
punts, as many country boys, my two compan- 
ions Ed and Cliff, and, of course, a driver, I 
started from Asheville for the Long Shoals. 
After eight miles of shaking and bumping we 
arrived at Glenn’s Ford, at the head of the 
shoals, and finding all our bones still in order 
proceeded to launch the boats and embark. 
We weighed anchor at 9:45 A. M. and formed 
in line of battle, Ed taking the left, Cliff the 
center and I the right. As the average width 
of the river is less than 100 yards, no ducks in 
fifty yards of the water could pass without com- 
ing in good range. Hardly had we gone by the 
first bend when a bunch of bluewing teal shot 
out from the mouth of a small creek directly 
in front of me. Both barrels of my Davis rang 
out, and the teal—minus three—turned sharply 
to the left, flew right between Cliff and Ed, 
who dropped five with their four. barrels, and 
sped away up stream. We had just collected our 
ducks, several of which had to be shot down, 
when like a bullet the flock flew’past us again 
and settled in the water some 200 yards below. 
Two barrels sent after them had failed to stop 
a single one. 
We were now at the head of a shoal or rapid, 
from the lower end of which extended a long 
stretch of smooth water. As we shot down the 
shoal what was our excitement at beholding not 
merely our little bunch, but a vast flock of ducks 
in the smooth water below. Mallards, teal, 
black ducks and redheads—they were all there; 
but in another moment they weren’t there, for 
with the noise of a freight train they had rushed 
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