The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-05
GUN AND GAME.

Good Snipe-Shooting in the Country
Club-Ducking at Antioch.
1t is said that duck-shooting in the So.
mona marshes has been very poor this
season and the sportsmen who frequent
those marshes attribute their poor luck to
the great amount of shooting that has
been done this year at night by men who
hunt for the market.
As there are thousands of wild ducks in
San Pablo Bay at present the outlook for
some good sport in the near future is
promising.
A good stiff blow from the west will
send the birds into the marshes, but a
heavy rainstorm VIII result in destroying
the shooting near the bay, as the ducks
will leave for the southern country.
The secretary of the San Joaquin Valley
Agricultural Association writes that he
has received the medals and diplomas won
at the late Stockton bench show and is
now prepared to distribute them.
George Jackson bagged quite number
of malIard and teal few days ago on
Lake San Andreas, which sheet of water
is the property of the Spring Valley Wafer
Company.
J. Wallace and Fred GreepIee en- loved a
good duck-shoot nesr Suisun last Monday.
They positively state that the birds did
not cost them any more than what they
paid for ammunition and transportation.
Sam Hughes, alias Silver-tongue Sam,
and his English setter, Silver Plate II, had
most enjoyable outing in the Country
Club of Marin County last Sunday. Billy
Kittle states that Hughes is good on
quail, but a very rank shot on English
snipe.
The following letter has been received
and speaks for itself:
ANTIOCH, CAL, Dec. /. ID
Duck-shooting is first-class now and a good
shot can secure a good bag of birds. ]. Lem
mer, with shells loaded with "Gold Dust
powder by William Remfree of Antioch, killed
thirty-two mallards and about tWenty-eight
blackjac Dick Brooks of San Francisco an
old-time sport whose eyesight is either getting
poor or his No. 10 gun growing old, got four
ducks and ducking. Mr.. Lemmer claimed
that the four ducks secured by Brooks were
cripples that he had knocked down himself
Mr.. Brooks used to be pretty fair duck shot
but, like Remfree, he is good old s'has been.'i
Mr.. Brooks is very indignant that be
should be classified among the .'has
beens." and states that if Mr.. Remfree
| who is the ackno wledged champion Tin.
can" shooter of San Joaquin County, is
anxious for race on artificial birds or live
birds, he will meet him at any time and
place he may suggest purposely to ar
range a contest. Brooks states further
that Mr.. Remfree may use 1O-bore gun
and that he will handle pea-shooter, as
that kind of gun will be large enough for
him If contest OF this kind.
Phil Bekeart bagged good mess of wild
ducks last Sunday in Suisun marsh.
Walter Burlingame and Jim Chesley
returned from Suisun last Sunday with
thirteen birds.
Frank Vernon had an excellent snipe
Shoot on the Country Clubs marsh last
Sunday. He reports birds as being verv
plentiful.
Frank Dolliver says that the weather
was SO cold at Point Reyes last Sunday
that his dog had much difficulty in re-
trieving birds he had killed and which fell
into the pond he was shooting over.
81 never saw anything like it before, y
said Dolliver, without cracking a smile !:
1.-THE ducks / killed froze stiff second
after they struck the water. and my dog
'Leatherhead' had to scrape the ice from
off the birds backs with his paws before
he could get hold on them. Why, in
the early morning it was so cold that the
shot froze into solid mass after leaving
the gun and some of the birds killed
were actually cut IN two when they fell.''