North Dakota Wild Fowl 
Plentiful 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
O doubt, very few readers realize 
the immense number of wild fow] 
that were here in the old days and 
doubtless few realize what an immense 
number we have here yet, in season. 
To be sure the geese and larger game 
have, to a certain extent, failed to come, 
especially in the Fall, yet during the 
spring migration they are here by the 
thousands. 
During the past couple of weeks 
there were at least 5,000 geese, mostly 
snow geese, but many Canadians and 
Hutchins, on a lake of not over a quar- 
ter of a section within three miles of 
town. Very few geese of any kind nest 
here at this time and for some reason 
unknown, they have changed their line 
of migration during the Fall. I have 
friends just over the line in Montana 
who say it is no trouble at all to kill 
the limit of geese in the lakes there at 
any time during the Fall flight. 
But as to ducks and especially mal- 
lards I very much doubt if there were 
any more in the 80’s than we now have. 
Thousands and thousands of them nest 
here, and as soon as the grain ripens, 
they are in the fields, and no one who 
has not seen it can possibly realize the 
damage that is done by these birds to 
the grain fields. I have seen quarter 
sections of wheat and barley that would 
not pay threshing and in an early har- 
vesting season these birds start on the 
grain at least a month before the open 
season ison. It is becoming a big ques- 
tion as to how the situation can be 
taken care of. 
As for pass shooting I do very little 
of it, but I do enjoy decoy sport, and 
several times I have shot mallards until 
my gun was too hot to touch with the 
bare hand. 
At any time during the open season 
and especially the last few days before 
they leave for the South, I can get the 
limit, and nothing but green heads if I 
want to pick my shots, and many times 
I do so in less than one hour. I have 
never owned a camera, but if I had 
had one in the past few years, I could 
have sent you pictures that you could 
hardly believe, even after seeing the 
photos. 
Last fall I crawled up through the 
rushes to within twenty yards of five 
acres of mallards sitting on the ice. I 
had a Winchester repeater full of shells 
and didn’t fire a shot into them, as my 
partner, the banker, and I had killed 
our limit, the day before, and owing to 
the weak ice I had gone that morning 
and picked them up, so I did not know 
what I could do with them if I did 
shoot. But say, if I had only had a 
good camera there I could have had a 
wonderful picture. I backed off and 
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