Show a SHOOTING DUCKS WITH I I Market Hunters Slaughter Whole Flocks of o Wild Game at One Shot Just now the sportsmen of the republic who have a friend and who can get the necessary permission for shooting over any of the numerous haciendas where the game wardens protect the ducks have shooting which is not equaled in any other part of the world says ay the Mexican Herald HeraldOn HeraldOn r On the larger lakes like Lake Chapala for tor example It is III I possible to hunt with without without without out a permit of any kind and no one I will molest the sportsman But in the valley of Mexico particularly the ducks duck come wherever there is a damp spot al ai almost a most and the numerous little shallow lakes teem with thousands of the feath feat feathered feathered n ered game which are easy marks for the sportsman Single Guns Not Wanted But the man m D wl the gun who has not some friend or some special manner of getting permission to do his shooting ver I Isome some of the protected area has more dif difficulties i in Mexico than he would have In perhaps any other section The hunt bunt hunting bunting ing of the sportsman with his shotgun is put under the ban In order that th armada may do its work This is a contrivance for the wholesale slaughter of the ducks and Is one of the most deadly devices deIces of its kind which has been put into use for getting game in large quan quantities quantities titles for the market The armada Is a battery of from 50 O Oto Oto to lOG guns which are set in a row at a given Iven angle so as to cover an expanse of ot the shallow lake where the ducks are known to gather for feeding They are always placed on a natural feeding ground and this feeding ground is often made doubly attractive for the ducks By I Y the scattering of wheat or other grain on the water so that the ducks will come there Gas Pipe for Gun GunThe GunThe GunThe The guns are arranged in a line and andare andare are so set that they the will slaughter the ducks via they ther swim on the thc water Some f the thc armadas are really made up of two batteries instead of one One of thc the batteries will cover the water and the theother theother theother other Is made for firing just after the discharge of ot the first armada and is isso Isso Isso so leveled that It will catch the ducks just as they the start on their flight after the discharge of the first fir t set of guns The guns bUns are so arranged that by pull pulling pig ing a wire the entire battery is dis discharged discharged discharged charged at once Sometimes the guns which compose compOe the battery are of a special cial etal design on a swivel and are made for this very ver purpose but often the crud crudest crudest crudest est sort of material is resorted to in order to make up the battery Often good strong Is secured pipe which Is reasonably sure not to burst and an is con converted converted converted into a crude crud weapon for the pur purpose purpose pose of ot the armada Boatloads Killed at Once Invariably the guns are loaded literally up to the muzzle and anything hard serves senes as ammunition old nails nans being In In the category When the ar armadas armadas madas aw are constructed Instead of 01 the crude of a most approved typo type of ct shotgun made for this purpose which s alters sattes widely and which will stand without bursting being Jammed full of hot and ard powder they are often dis by b the use of electricity and thus every modern expedient Is adopted in lD order to get at the ducks and to slaughter J ter them in large numbers for the mar market market ket ketI I Jr It i j k often the th case ease that three or four boat loads of ducks are killed at one dis discharge discharge charge charp of an armada of this character In addition to those which are killed at atthe atthe atthe the discharge of the armada In whole wholesale hole salt sale firing tiring ot of this character there are naturally very ver large numbers of wound wounded ed which are hunted down singly by b hunters who may have hae been invited to witness the discharge dl harge of the armada While the best feeding grounds are al always always a ways selected for or the planting of ot the armada at the same time artificial meth methods methods methods are in vogue for getting the ducks ducksin in large numbers on the feeding grounds In fn front of the guns nf This is ja in addition to 10 the device delce of throwing food on the water There are few canvasbacks to the found T rL Mexico and few mallard But of the teal teat ducks there is an endless variety The ordinary ordina large duck which is plentiful ful Is called the golondrina and cor corresponds corresponds corresponds responds to the American widgeon or pintail There are no general game laws lawsto to 10 protect the ducks The restrictions nf t the Individual haciendas however are harder on the average sportsman than would be a law for the general protection of game |