The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-23
DRESSING FOR DUCK SHOOTING.
What Comprises III Outfit and whas a
Good One Costs

! mnaS comprises III Outht ana hhas \
Good One Costs.
In the course of an article on duck shoot
ing writer in The New York Sun says:
The first thing to consider in ducking out.
| fit is the clothing to wear No matter whether
one wishes to shoot for the market or for the
/ fun of it, proper clothes are Of first import
ance. If man wants to wear out his old
clothes, let him put on three old wooden I'M
dershirts and three old pairs of drawers and
two pairs of WOODEN socks, whether he is going
to shoot from blind or battery. Over these
| put the thickest wooden coat and trousers and
pair of boots Then put on the oldest and
r.ost faded overcoat at banda faded green
one for the battery or brown for the blind
VIII be best.
For the hands thin pair of wooden gloves,
with a thick pair of big mittens easily drop
ped off. For the head sou'wester is indis-
pensable. 1t should be bought two or three
sizes too large, so that the head and ears can
be wrapped in faded muiiler before it is put
on. Over all some sort of siicker or water
proof must be had, and a rubber blanket is as
good as anything. In this rig a man may be
fairly comfortable on ordinary duck shooting
days, but he will be by no means in the best
rig to be had.
The best rig is first suit of good thick
wooden underwear and pair of wooden
socks. Then draw on a Macknaw shirt and
Mackinaw pair of drawers They are mado
of wool, and are a quarter of an inch thick
If the weather is particularly severe he
should put on two suits, but there is danger
of bundling up so much as to be unable to
hold the gun. On the feet draw felt boots
These boots are used by the lumbermen in
the Adirondacks, and are in all respects the
best foot covering for bitter weather ever de-
vised. Next put on canvas hunting trousers
and hunting coat which have previously
been soaked in linseed oil, and then dried and
soaked again and dried. The gul stores sell
these canvas suits unoied.
When oiled they smell like fresh paint, and
that will be disagreeable to some folks, but
not so disagreeablc as a stream of cold water
down the back. The color of these goods is
reddish brown, too bright when new, but
just right for the blind when grown dingy.
If one is to shoot from battery aioat, then
a leaden green is better color. A little
paint will fix them. Oil coats and trousers
can be purchased at the clothing stores on
the water front, but the oiled coats sold there
are not adapted for the purpose. The real
hunting coat has patch sewcd in under the
shoulders in such way that man can raise
his arms without bringing the weight of his
coat on them.
If, now, man must wade any to get to
his blind or put out decoys, he must have
rubber wading boots. The hat must be a
sou'wester, large in size, as said, and the yell
lowish sailor sou'wester is the best to I've had
For the hands, thin wooden gloves and big,
thick rnittens over them are absolutely neceS-
sary; and if after all these things are Oh
tanned one can have an old horse blanket to
throw over his knees for the knees get cold
firstl, he can count on a comfortable day,
rain or shine.
Some idea Of the cost of an outfit vii! not
be uninteresting. Here is a list prepared bya