The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
WARY DUCKS KEEP OUT
OF RANGE OF HUNTERS.
Webfoot Came is Plentiful Enough on the
Nearby Marshes but Hard to Get
By FRANK o'DoNNELL

with mallards on the Santa Rita ranch
near Los Banos recently. Ed Bosqui OF
the Field and Tule club and several OF
his fellow members were through for
the day as early as 9 o'clock last Sun
day morning. Mallard and sprig with
a sprinkling Of widgeon were the tar
gets on their preserve.
Laurie Adams Sunday shoot at Gus
tine seemed to have merely given him
at Walter Plummer's place near New
ark with Frank Carroll and Peter Cop
pen. PIummer was with them and the
quartet bagged 100 sprig, each getting
25. On the other east bay shore pre-
serves spoonbills predominated when
there was anything 10 shoot at. Ed
Kerrison came up on the train from
Alvarado with 25 spoonies Birds were
scarce around Alviso, and the Larzalere
outfit near Mowry did little or nothing.
Ed Convey and George Franzen also
met with Indifferent success.
Sportsmen up in the river districts
are doing very well with ducks, and
there are also geese enough in that re-
gion to furnish enough spot for the
entire population OF the bay and river
counties. according to reports. Donald
Ross and a friend are putting In a week
on the sIoughs along the San Joaquin
this side of Stockton. Members Of the
Clyde gun club, an organization OF
Sacramento sportsmen. are commencing
to have some splendid sport. Alden
Andersen, George A. Neal and E. d.
Adams have bagged limits on the club
grounds recently. Frank Newbert. a
prominent trap shooter, has been with
them en- several occasions The Big
lake shooters are not doing very well.
as their ponds are not baited, while
reclamation work is interfering with
sport around knights Landing
Bob Bungay. the Los Angeles sports
man, dropped in on the gathering OF
shotgun experts in the clubrooms at
636 Market street last Friday. He had
just reached the city from Gustine
where he had an excellent duck and
geese shoot. Bungay said that three
new clubs were organized recently IN
Los Angeles and that the shooting ter
ritory had been cut up, with the result
that sport was poor.
Clarence Nauman OF trap shooting
fame. who has been at sanatorium for
several weeks, is home to spend the
holidays with his family. He is in ex-
cellent health. and after he has spent
some little time looking up his friends
he will be ready TO join his old shoot
ing companions on a duck hunting ex-
pedition.
The last rain did much to improve
quail hunting in districts where mois-
ture was needed to make the ground
easy for dogs to work on. Seven limit
strings were brought In by a party OF
hunters from the vicinity Of Fresno last
week. The party included Fred Wilt.
Walter Wood, Ray Sherwood, Fred
Stone. L Icks and W. w. Te-rfll
Harvey McMurchy Of New York. Jack
Lemmer and two others were up at Bo-
dega on a hunting trip Sunday. The
party brought in quail and ducks, hav-
ing given the former the most atten-
tion. McMurchy was out after quail
again on Wednesday with Clarence
Haight. who brought him to a well
stocked preserve between Hayward and
San Jose Some splendid quail shoot
ing may be had in Monterey county,
near Jolon- A hunter named Osbourne.
who Is well known in that vicinity,
notified friends in the city that great
many limits are being shipped out from
there. According to report, the shoot
ing is not done on preserves, but on
open land. Visitors to this place 20 to
King City by rail and stage over to the
hunting grounds.