The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19
SHORT GUNS AND LONG GUNS,
The Men VINO Take Chances Those Who
Make the Big scores.

| mahe tUe UJB scores.
The spring shooting OF wild fowl, which
has closed practically for the season in
the West, has shown once again that the
heavy guns will beat the light guns and
the long guns win beat the short CUR s.
/ The heavy guns are better fowling pieces
because they will stand heavier charges of
ahot and powder, and the more powder
burned behind shot the faster and farther
they will 60. Just why the long ones will
beat the abort ones Ii still mooted Question
among Runnep, though It is supposed
that confinement Of the gsses behind the
projectfles for a greater distance lends
than An added force.
OF late years Il has been fed with mary
wild fowlers to shorten the barrels of their
guns. just "a they have been decreasing
the bore. II h . fact that gun IL lighter
and may be swung more readily upon game,
but that 10 all that can be said In It's favor.
II Is the gun for brush shooting or snap
ahooting. but there it's merits erd. For
ducks or geese there Is nothing like the
barrel Of thirty-two inches, unless 1t be the
barrel OF thirty-four inches.
Thar are several kinds OF duck shooters,
but those most distinctly contested are
the men who take no chances and kill all
their birds within nifty yards and the men
who take chances on anything that comes
along; Thes4 are the men who most fire.
gu Guents,y dsmons =, the beauties Of the
OF the shots they make are strange.
"A mallard going down wird at the rate
OF ninety miea an hour passee overhead,
sppsrentIy q hundred yards high. The
but the nan Nth The iors t ra u who Is out out
70 shoot and believes In pulling trigger
whenever there h . ghost OF char CO, let's
drive and the mallard. .whirling over aid
over twenty timet, strikes ground. water
, OF oodrss, AVS Shots Of this kind ar. missed
where one H. hit. but one shot Of the kind !
10 worth . ,dosen Of the usual tame sort 1
when Tho btr6D are murdered at thirty !
yards q they hover over the decoys. The :
s ss 'e ss saG n Of Shooting
nearly all the tirne-As he would express
II, hs eete tho woods on fre--and he has
the satisfaction. too. Of making many
Out along the Illinois River and other
Western nvers on which spring shooting
IL permitted the birds have been shot at
20 much that they have grown wary.
sprnf duck Y harder to KIN than : fall
dues s Sscar:s ,, y haf whoas winter Of e. q.
huntefe afe confronted With conditions
which demand their best knowledge Of speed
md distance.
The birds hy higher in spring than In
len; they nun gauntlet from the Gulf to
heir bveding grounds. and the man who
has The long gun and shoots IL often will
make The largest bags. The fellow who
caves CAMP With . hundred shells and
,omes back Tor more at noontine will get
more birds and have mors fun and par
lculafly will make more memorable shots
han the careful individual who Roes with
hirty shell.. expenris eighteen OF them
md shows ax mallards for his economy.
The oeder O sportsrnan kets the mors3 he
,onee 70 realine that gum were made 70
hoot and TN more he comn to know that
he long barrel kept hot 10 the thing TO make
cores With