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Show CARNEY GIVES I HUNTING ADVICE Calling of Ducks Is Essential: Few Are Able tn Call Weh Or With Ease I5 PI I I K p CARNEY. Whet iter you shoot ducks over de- coys, in toe bash, jumping or wading; the call Is very essential Yet of the great number of men who shoot few are able to call well or with judement. It is not necessary tu cultivate many utffi n nt calls Two or thrccJare NOUgll. I'or the inland water fowl, mallard, widgeon leal, grnyduck, spoonbill, wood-chuck, black-duck, and all nin-I nin-I diving ducks, the mallard ami teal cjII is sufficient, iii tact, U"- milliard jc.ill alone Is usually enough for all non -diving ducks. i'or diving or deep-water ducks, the blue-bill call will answer, although if one has also at command the purring call of the red head. It will greatly iheip in the day's sport, in shooting over ordinary waters, where sport Is ito be had at red heads. blue-bills, rftroad bills, whistles! butterbllls and jthe others of th ir lass, most of the Mucks ill re.-pnnd readil lo the blue-mill blue-mill or the brood-bill call Blue-bills jarc great alters and on calm days can lbs beard hailing cverj passing flock. 1 Sometime.- the blue-bill calls the jker-i-r-r-r once twlct- and three times, and occasionally even four times. I When they are feeding they often Isound a contented kind of Chuckle lifhich Is similui to that of the mud-lien mud-lien when undisturbed. , 'Sound travels a long way In a Still i marsh When the call Is loud the mallard, black-duck and widgeon detect de-tect easily the fraud culls, therefore, modulate your voice in a marsh Oftentimes Of-tentimes these wary birds, after rom-jing rom-jing into a marsh in response to your call, will settle among your decoys, or they may alight outside of gun range land study the decoys to satisfy thcm- dlsturbed they will then slowly move towards ihe decoys, feeding and chuckling chuck-ling as they swim. Call to attract the bird's attention to decoys, then modulate your call, in a marsh remember the birds can detect the imitation more easily In a loud than In muffled call. I For deep-water birds call louder for the calling, or else scivc a low chuckle l ha l they can just he.u If birds start t circle away,. a few low calls will often bring tjieni back. If in open water; ihe birds often will igo entirely around you to dlscxrvei i what the Nusplciou bunch of weeds contains, and at such a lime lie low and do not try lo keep them In sight all the while. Your moving will scare them quicker than anything else. Lie low, and Stay low. If the birds come in, do not jump up. Rest just high enough to clekr vour blind when you jghoot. Be assured the ducks' eyes are i on the shore side, for there is where jthey watch first for danger and any movement sends them scattering |