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UNFAIR FIREARMS AND SHOOTING ETHICS 149
SLAUGHTERED ACCORDING TO LAW
AResultofaFaultySystem SuchPicturesasthisareVeryCommoninSportsmen'sMagazines Note the Automatic Gun
shoot. A photograph would have been taken of the remainder of the shoot, but it being warm weather the birds had to be shipped at once in order to keep them from spoiling.
"Supper was then eaten, after which we were driven back to Willows; both agreeing that it was one of the greatest days of sport we ever had, and wishing that we might, through the courtesy of the Glenn County Goose Club, have another such day. C. H. B."
Another picture was published in a Canadian magazine, illustrating a story from which I quote
"I fixed the decoys, hid my boat and took my position in the blind. My man started his work with a will and hustled the ducks out of every cove,inletorpieceofmarshfortwomilesaround. Ihadbarelytimeto slip the cartridges into my guns^ one a double and the other a five shot automatic—whenIsawabraceofbirdscomingtowardme. Theysailed inovermydecoys. Irosetotheoccasion,andtheleaderup-endedand tumbled in among the decoys. The other bird, unable to stop quick enough, came directly over me. He closed his wings and struck the
ground in the rear of the blind.
" More and more followed. Sometimes they came singh', and then in twos and threes. I kept busy and attended to each bird as quickly