The morning call., 1890-10-19
GUN AND GAME.
nuaekers Are Putting in an Appearance

Quaekers Are Putting in an Appearance
AT AIviso.
Sportsmen who burned powder On the Al
yisO marshes this week state that sprigs
and spoOnbills are quite plentiful, which
speaks well for the coming season. 1t is, of
course, rather early Tor good Shooting, but
the fact that the WateT-foHls have begun to
put in an appearance is a tolerably good
guaranty that local sportsmen will make up
Jnls winter Tor the very poor success met
with last season.
Market hunters have been shipping large
guam titles Of canyaSback, sprig and widg-
con ducks to the markets recently from the
San joaquin River. The birds are, how
ever, IN very poor condition and do not COM
mand as high a price as they should at this
time of the year. English snipe, which are
now being shot in large numbers in the
vicinity Of Jersey Landing and Rowland,
are also poor in flesh.
Al Newman and Chris Thornagill made
alters very lively for the birds on AIillers
ranch last Sunday. They worked large
bevy out of rough canyon 10 hillside,
where the cover was sparse and had some fine
sport. Fifty quullS cut OF tie beyy thInned
il pretty well.
Lawrence Sutton and Charley Heath did
some fairly good shooting on quail last Sun
day at NoyatU. Heath's bag number ed two
dozen birds.
The welI-known sportsman Blue Bill
Morgan will deliver lecture at the next
meeting Of the Sp9r;smen's Protective
Association on brOad-gauge Shotguns for
long distance duck shooting. Bill is very
ocular fellow and gets off a good thing now
and then A week alter the opening Uf the
quail season il Marin County Morgan and
h 5 celebrated spaniel Cowcatcher were re-
turning iron Black Point - hen a would-be
clever young man asked the sportsman if he
III, posed ~ eat all the birds he Lad in lis
possession. William covered The queryst
with bis night eye and after hesitate Z
moment sDOuted: WAL, L g1rss so; these
ere quail you can bet yer bouts will respond
TO the Toast Of the season tomorrow morn
ing in my shanty. Ha! ha! hai"
The Massachusetts SpOrtsmen's Associa-
tion S bent on making an experiment with the
California quail. One lot has already been
received and placed on lands where they
will have protection for few years
Much has been said and written about
guns ana their shooting qualities, but nn-
less gun is made 10 suit the gunner poor
shooting will be the result To match the
figure OF shooter, he should recOllect That
the straighter the stock he can use the
quicker and more accurate will be his aim,
especially 50 i'll regard TO swift-hylng game.
A long-armed or tall man generally requires
gun with long stock aud well bent, and q
short man short and straight stock. A
broad-chested man requires Il stock with a
fair amount of cast-off to the right, so as to
bring the barrels to the left and in line with
his sight, instead of having to bring his face
to the stock, as would be the case with
gun without sufficient cast-0ff to the right.
A narrow-chested man will require very
little casi-off, as his stock will be nearer to
his face. and the barrels naturally move in
line with his eyes
Sfgn-boards which read "All trespassing
forbidden On these grounds" are becoming
wel-known objects TO gunncrs who hunt for
quail; yet many seem not 10 have any very
clear IDEA respecting what constitutes
trespass. Briefly, no person has the right to
20 upon lands of another without having
fist obtained the latter's permission. Al
though the custom is to roam at will over