The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26
GUN AND GAME.
Sea- Brant Shooting In Tomales Bay.
Ducks in the Marshes.

Sea- Brant shooting In IOmaleS Bay.
Ducks in the Marshes.
If the sport on the marshes can be
Judged from the number of wild ducks
that have been seen during the past week
along the bay shores, hunters must be en-
ioying first-class shooting. According to
statements of sportsmen who returned
from Mount Eden and Alviso last Sunday
several very good bags of birds were made,
Notwithstanding that a very light wind
was blowing.
January should be the best month of the
season for duck-shooting in the marshes
that margin the bay. The spoon bills have
arrived in good mum bers, and they gen.
orally take possession OF every pond they
find in the marshes. They are good table
birds when they first arrive, but after a
month or so of feeding in the mud, where
they shovel up small crabs and she'll
fishes, they become coarse and unpalat-
able.
According to the weather prophet rain is
near at hand, and in that event the duck
shooters should all score marked success
tomorrow.
Ed Laid, the gun merchant, has sunk
four or five casks in Richardson's Bay in
the vicinity of the old Sausalito bridge
He expects to enjoy excellent canvas pack
shooting from now until the end of the
season. The birds fly over the ''sink
boxes" on their journey TO and from the
feeding grounds
Messrs. Lemmer, Brooks, Johnson, Ven
ker and McRae had most pleasant out
ing near Antioch last Saturday and Sun
day. Brooks shot salmon ION the
jump" which he presented to John Ber-
gez, who in turn will back him to shoot
tin cans against Remfree, the champion
"tcan" shooter OF Antioch.
AL Truman and his brace of pointers,
Down Charge and Find Him, visited
Tocaloma last Sunday. Truman bagged
four quail. He says that he would have
had great string OF birds only for the
gun, which was new to him.
cit would not shoot as | wanted it to, 4"
|. said Al when relating his experience to
some friends. "You see my gun, which a
friend had in his possession by mistake, is
an ejector, and once you become attached
to those ejector guns you cannot shoot
any other Kind l shoot very rapidly,
frequently stopping birds five feet from
the ground, and to accomplish this trick
long experience, backed up by great nerve
power and quick and accurate eve, is
necessary. think if had had my ejector
would have lowered Papa Casey's record
OF 125 straight"
John Kerrigan and w. Lawrence had q
fairly good shoot on quail Sunday after
uOOu near IOluL ncycS. Lie BIOuuu WAS
too wet for the birds, and as a result shoot
ing over points was limited.
Billy Kttle bagged twenty-seven Eng
lish snipe and four robins on the Coun-
try Cubs bog.
Al Newman, f. Dolliver and d. McRae
bagsed about two dozen ducks on the
Point Reyes marsh. The birds few high
and wild.
al Wilson and Colonel Cracknell of New
York returned from Hamlet, Tomales Bay,
last Monday with twenty-nine sea-brant-
most delicious table bird.
William S. Simpson, the president of
the Jackson Hole Gun Club, who wrote
that fully 10000 elk had come down from
the high ranges of the Shoshone Mount
aims to the winter feeding grounds, adds
in later letter that the antelope are so
plentiful in places and SO tame, owing 10
their protection from pothunters, that
they act more like sheep than wild ami
mails. The early SHOWS in the higher
ranges forced the elk 10 come TO winter
ranges full six weeks earlier than usual,