What price ducks
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Part of The Marksman Magazine
- Title
- What price ducks
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1939
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- August, 1939 THE MARKSMAN 11 WHAT PRICE DUCKS? -------~~-----The lengths to which some chaps will go to shoot a few ducks! Lates: the sad tale of the Mexican duck club organized by Los Angeles shooters. Distance to club, 200 miles, including crossing International Boundary. Cost, $200 per each, plus $60 to join fake Mexican "hunting ciub,, which had nothing to do with their duck club but required under Mexican laws, also $41.50 to take over shotgun and enough shells for season. Ball opened by high pressure promoter annexing $1,700 of club funds, so the boys reorganized and dug up another $200 per each. Club consisted of shallow valley emptying into sea, sandbar partly cutting off the little stream and valley from ocean. So boys built dike to stop stream and cut off sea, and make fresh water lake. Came along 8 ft. tide, washed out dike, washed out sandbar, washed out the lake. Continued on page 51 GAME WARDEN:-"This can't be yoursIt's a Sportsman's License". August, 1939 THE MARKSMAN 51 WHAT PRICE DUCK? Continued from page 11 . So boys rustled up some scrapers in that thinly-settled country, rebuilt dike, waited for lake to refill. Two weeks later they got 7 inches of ~ain in about four days, filled up lake all right and whole works went out merrily to sea with the dike and bar. Now they feel just a bit discouraged. (LIMIT you can bring across the Line is 10 ducks.) N.R.A. PISTOL RANKINGS Two crack-shot police officers and a U. S. Immigration Border Patrol agent head the list of 1938 national ranking of pistol shooters announced by the National Rifle Association. The rankings, determined on the basis of all N.R.A. registered tournament competition for the past year, give first place in the .22 caliber class to Charle Askins, Jr., of the El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol unit; a Detroit policeman, Alfred Hemming, leadership of the .38 caliber specialists; Walter Stark, of the Los Angeles FoJice team, tops for the .45 caliber handgun experts. * * * * Competitors in the last Newspapermen Pistol Shoot held under the auspices of the NRP A on June 18, 1939. Among them are: L. Dizon, Mrs .. Bert Covet, A. Tatlonghari and Bert Covet of the TVT; J. Collas, F. G. Tutay, D. L .. Francisco, and A. Johnson of the Free Pre8s; C .. Claudio of the DMHM; Miss Jane Wilson of United Press; T. Capestel Of Roces Publication and P. Jose of Graphic. . The winners were: first, A. Tatlonghari; second, Mr. Luis Hizon. of TVT and third, M. Juan Collas of the Free Press.