couple of drakes with his 28 gauge 
nd No. 6 chilled shot, and dropped 
em both dead with a clever double. 
‘his man Sherrod always could kill a 
uck anywhere he would ever see one, 
nd his double was difficult while ours 
yas easy; nevertheless, this and other 
verformances of the 410 had put the 
ittle gun on the map locally as a pos- 
ible duck gun. 
Another enthusiastic hunting friend 
f ours is Mr. C. C. Gaines, and noth- 
ng would do but that we go back to the 
iver below the dam to shoot ducks 
ind quail on a two days’ hunt. Of 
ourse it made us “pretty mad” to have 
o go back there again, but to ease his 
jain we consented to go, and took an- 
)ther friend along for company. We 
Jecided to take the 410 and give it a 
‘ure enough hard test at river duck 
shooting, so the three of us drove the 
(25 miles to the river below the dam 
om December 26, 1924. 

HE following morning was very 
cold, so we did not get out till 
she sun was well up, and to make a 
ong story short, we killed 14 ducks 
ind one goose, but unfortunately the 
zoose was too thin to be of any value 
for the table. It is the only goose we 
jaave ever killed in the United States. 
It was killed in flight at about 35 
yards, with No. 4 chilled shot, and 
«illed very dead. We had lots of fun, 
‘aowever, in “springing” this goose on 
our friends when we met at the car 
after the shoot was over. The ducks 
included ten big ducks, of which one 
was a canvasback, and four greenwing 
teal. U.S. all brass cartridges, loaded 
with Ne. 6 chilled, was the shell prin- 
‘cipally used, and was found very 
deadly even on the biggest ducks at a 
full 35 yards. The other cartridge 
used was thé 2%” Western with No. 
4 chilled. It was amazing how big 
ducks could be killed at even 40 yards, 
and scratched down and even killed at 
somewhat beyond that range. 
_ This was experimental shooting and 
shots were taken at much longer range 
than we would advise, or would take 
again, but it demonstrated clearly that 
as an emergency duck gun—as when 
‘ducks are seen while hunting small 
game—the 410 will kill ducks, and that 
over decoys where ducks are plentiful, 
any good shot can kill all the ducks any 
man should want, and with more en- 
joyment than he could get out of kill- 
ing twice the number with a big heavy 
hard kicking gun. 
A total of 52 ducks was killed dur- 
ing October, November and December, 
1924, and included mallards, canvas- 
backs, pintails, gadwalls, bluebills. 
spoonbills, widgeons and blue and 
green wingteals. 
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