The morning call., 1891-11-24
DUCK SHOOTING.
A Sport That Is Fast Becoming
Very Popular.
Remarkable Scores Made by Fulford and
Brewer in a Trar-shooting Contest.
Killing One Hundred Straight.

Any person who has the least donlt as 10
the popularity which the sport of upland
and marsh shooting has attained within a
few years need but take passage on any of
the early trains and boats leaving this city
Sunday mornings to be convinced Of an er-
Tor in Judgment.
Although the season for duck shooting on
the swamp lands within convenient Journey
OF this city is backward this year, owing to
continued spell of fine weather. the sports
men who take pleasure in an outing with
dog and gun cannot resist the temptation OF
q Sunday morning visit to their old haunts.
Out of the two hundred hunters who re-
turned on the steamer Ukiah Sunday even
ing from the various game resorts of Sonoma
County not more than twenty had anything
like fair displays of birds
THREE-DAY HUNTERS.
Those who proudly packed the feathered
bipeds on their shoulders were repreS enta-
tives of class of sportsmen who are termed
by the fraternity of nimrods " three-day"
hunters, which means that they leave this
city on Fridays to return with the masses on
Sunday evenings.
The "three-day" hunters are generally to
be found in companies of threes and fOurS.
They have special accommodations OF their
own on the "ducking" resorts. where they
can keep alOof from the great body Of duck
shooters.
This year the marshes over which tn G
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
travels are dotted with shanties of various
sizes and patterns. In these roughly con-
structed abodes the "three-day' spOrtsmen
enjoy themselves only as duCk-hunterS can
under oftentimes adverse Circumstances.
Their opportunities for bagging game,
when it is within gun range, is so far supe-
rior TO the 'one-day' hunter that 1t some
times requires the assistance OF glllle
10 pack the dead birds from the shantleS to
the railroad stations.
IN FREsH-wATER PUDDLEs.
Owing to the scarcity of rain this year the
moonlight hunter who knows the best loca-
tons of fresh-water ponds has a big lIandi-
cap on his brother sportsmen. At night the
birds leave the wide lagoonS and bayous for
little sweet refreshments, aud it is then
the pot-hunter makes his harvest The web
footers are generally slaughtered they mo-
ment they alght in the ponds. The teal is
a great frequenter of fresh-water puldles.
This handsome bird, which is so highly
priced by epicures. visits the ponds just be-
fore nlghtfal, and oftentlmes as many as
fifty birds have been killed in hall au hour
shooting.
Sportsmen will not favor this kind of
shooting, as ii is not in accordance with the
ethics Of true craftsmanship. The pot
play will travel many miles for an opportu-
nifty for moonlight fusillade.
PHENOMENAL TRAP-sHoOTING.
Local sportsmen who enjoy trap-shoot g
during the close season for game have oc-
casionally witnessed some remarkable per
formances, such as the killing Of fifty birds
straight.
1t is seldom that one hears Of a clean rec
ord Of 100 birds even under the most favora-
Bile circumstances. Z. d. Fulford of New
\ ork City, an eX-amateur pigeon shot and
man comparatively unknown 10 profess
sional pigeon-shoOters, achieved this Won
derful performance at Heritage's grounds,
Marion, \. j., on the 10Th inst, in an eX-
hlbitiOn shoot with the well-known profess
sion John y. Brewer. The latter shot brill
iantly, but lost the match with his last bird
falling dead cut of the bounds.
The shooting has, in reality, never been
equaled, for when Al Baudle OF Cincinnati
performed the same feat it was with 10
gauge gun, while the scores by Fulford and
Brewer were made with light 12-gauge.
The match at 100 birds, although announced
as an exhibition contest, was for $500 aside,
under modified Nottingham rules.
THE MATCH DESCRIBED.
a New York paper says of the match
". Wolsternoft of Philadelphia was the
referee. Brewer was first at the score. The
first % birds side were shot In 80 minutes
and The second p per man In the same time
TO a second. the third % each occupied 90
minutes, and the fourth and last % each
were shot in ~ minutes, the entire length
Of The match being three hours and two
minutes. In the flight of the birds Fulford
had 2S right aud % left quarterers, .
straightaWay drivers, Il drivers to the right
and ditto to the left, IA straight incomers.
S iHcouers to the left and II to the right.
There was l crcling and l towering pigeon.
Brewer had % right Quarterers, straight
Always to the left and IS 10 the right, S direct
incomers, IA incomers to the right and 10 to
the left, direct stTalIhtaway, 2 circlirg and
turning pigeons. Captain Brewer used a
Wesley Richards hammeress breech-loader
weighing seven pounds. II 5 shells were
loaded with 34 drachms of Schultz powder
and p ounces of No. shot. FulfOrd shot
hammerless W. ". Gieener gun Weighing
seven pounds and seven ounces. His shells
were loaded with drachms of Schultz and
L tro powder and z ounces Of No. shot
IN first barrel ana same quantity of No. 6
Shot in the second barrel. The scores were {:
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John \. Brewer
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