The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-18

that such diving and splsshing was done by
stack and Rivers have never seen. even during
my soJourn in the Hawaiian Islands. or course
stack being Cork man foated like duck. but
Rivers had close call and lost his gun and sew
eral rounds of ammunition in the attempt to
escape from a drowning boat. Ned Cole. profess
sional hunter, found Rivers gun, which be recoV-
cred with graphing HOOK.
Well. the shooting was very poor. Macrea n an
aged 70 stop the fight OF TWO sandhill that
were amazed At seeing Stack walking the
water. He evidently took them by surprise.
However that may have been, when / discovered
that our time for departure up and
gamebags were empty, / put Macrea on
to place where had seen some hne tame mai
lard ducks feeding the evening before We con-
ducks at all and started for the pickings.
When we arrived at the place there were the
ducks. sure enough, enjoying themselves in
grain field. We moved within shooting dis
lance; and as 1 raised my gum 10 fire Scotty
Knock ed my hand up: ing at the same time.
them up"
Well 1 scared them up, Dick. to please seotty,
and We Knocked down hall dozen with four bar
rels. We then covered the feathers OF the dead
we had Killed straight goods, and with our game
in bag we started for the city loaded down with
happiness and thanking our stars that Stack was
a native of Cork.
The following, which is from the London
Shooting Times, will De interesting TO sports
men:
of gunpowder Will burn within the barrel of gun
and any used over that amount is unburned and
worse than useless. My experience does pOint
TO this In my early shooting days l have ire
quently been convinced that extra powder with
reduced weight OF shot. Will often Kill very long
distances. For instance. was once snipe-shoot-
ing with lahore double muzze-lOader. of about
pound weight, and had nothing larger than No.
10 shot with me A golden ploVer came over me
about from fifty to sixty yards off. / fired about
eighteen inches In front of him. thinking per haps
. might break wing but he passed on and settled
in plowed field. sitting upright. looking al me
j recnarged with double charge OF powder and
about half an ounce OF o. 10 shot walked M to the
within eighty Vav6G al m
he sat. rolled over dead, as II shot within thirty
yards. Again was skating on an immense piece
OF ice, with my gun, when very large seRgull
kept flying up in front of me, and finally alighted
long distance of. Resorting to the golden
yards of him. stopped low and fred down on the
ice about thirty yards nearer to me than the bird
was, thinking that the shot would strike the ice,
then skid along ike stone thrown on the ice
This calculation proved correct, for he rolled
over as dead as the golden plover did.
On another occasion was snip shooting, when
about fifty wild ducks got up out of swamp.
drew my charges of No. 10 shot. added more
powder, put light charge of No. 9 shot tabout
half an ounce. ran TO the spot where the ducks
had sprung from aud lay fiat down the
waters edge. The ducks took a large circle and
came back and had look at me, but they did OF
come near enough to shoot att but the third time
they came alittle nearer and. believing this would
were, as near as can guess, from ninety to one
hundred yards-I held the gun tight TO my shout
der TO give the shot more force and tired. TO my
delight as young and enthusiastic sportsman
two dropped-a duck and a very handsome drake.
The duck was stone dead and the drake winged.
Now, could any OF these birds have been bagged
with an ordinary charge? think not
Did not Captain Bogardus teach us lesson
when he came over from America challenging
any one breathing in a match at pigeons at the
traps? Did he not also use about five drains OF
powder out OF a 12-b0re gun? Certainly his gun
weighed about eight pounds or more or he could
not have stood the recoil. Seeing such long
cartridges his opponents had every on Q opened TO
was used. and not one contained even so much as
the agreed quantity For his first barrel he used