HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-11-01, Page 6Sone Useful ' Tips
For Duck Hunters
There are many angles to duck
hunting, but one of the most im-
portaint to the hunter is how to
hit a duck, Leading is one phase
of wild -fowl shooting that is dif-
ficult at first to understand and
harder still to apply.
When shooting movinggame, it
is necessary to shoot ahead of the
bird so that the shot charge and
the game will meet. Shot re-
quires, naturally, an appreciable
time to travel to the target, and
in that time, the target may have
moved anywhere up to 15 or 20
feet. There are so many variables
or factors that influence the lead
you take on a moving target or
bird, that it is not practical to set
lip a table of distances to lead
the object.
The speed and angle of the
target, the distance of hunter to
target, shooting conditions in gen-
eral, and the hunter's reflexes all
affect the type of shot to be taken
and the lead to allow. Speed of
ducks in flight will vary owing
to wind velocity and direction,
angle of flight in relation to the
earth, age, and physical state of
the bird, plumage, and the will
for speed at the moment. Ducks
fly from 50 to 100 feet a second,
When shooting at a moving tar-
get, swing your gun along the
line of its flight.
You just can't hit a duck if
you shoot behind it: so make it a
habit to concentrate on getting
your shot ahead, The snapshot
shooter doesn't swing his gun
with the bird. He shoots ahead
of it at the spot where he hopes
the charge and target will meet.
This is the fastest way to get a
shot off, but it is only good when
there is very little angle. This is
known as a desperation shot. The
best way for a gunner to do is to
pick up the bird and lead ahead
what he considers the right dis-
tance, He fires with the gun still
swinging — he follows through.
BLINDS -- It is impossible to
last all the types of blinds that
hunters use. Bluebills, redheads,
and canvasbacks can be shot
from nearly any kind of blind
that blends with the surround-
ings and appears natural if in the
open. But black ducks and mal-
lards require very carefully con-
structed blinds which are not
conspicuous.
PITS — Pits are used for stub-
ble shooting, Dig a pit deep
enough for concealment when
Bitting, but with sufficient room
to shoot from. Carry the earth
away, and spread the rim of the
,It with grass or straw; it ere
often cold; and sickle hunier8
select a wooden box strong
enough to sit on and large enough
to hold a kerosene lantern inside.
A good hand warmer is a must
with me for waterfowl shooting.
SHORE BLINDS—Some hunt-
ers build permanent blinds com-
plete with seats and stoves. More
often the hunter constructs a
blind from the materials at hand.
This proves easy if a roll of
chicken wire is carried along
with you and reeds or brush are
woven naturally into it.
FLOATING BLINDS — These
come in many varieties. There
are these that provide conceal -
went in the form of weeds or
branches fixed to supports. The
blinds or blind are anchored, and
the decoys spread around. Then,
there are scull boats and sneak
boats in which the hunter
"sculls" or drifts down on the
ducks.
There are quite a few boats
that are excellent for duck hunt-
ing, I am sold on aluminum craft
duck boats which are light and
durable. It is especially good for
pot hole shooting. This boat'won't
throw you if you fire a couple of
heavy loads from one side. A
boat that draws little water will
make travel in the weeds easier.
If you travel open water, pick
the boat that gets you there and
back safely,
Paint your boat the same color
as the background in which it
will be concealed. Don't overload
it cr• distribute the weight un-
evenly, Buy a boat that is light
enough to be carried easily down
to the water or on top of your
car.
DECOYS — Wood or cork de-
coys are heavy and bulky, but
they give good results. Irick the
most lifelike ones of the species
you want to shoot, Be sure they
are flat, dull finish.
By Jimmy Robinson, Trap and
Skeet Editor, Sports Afield.
This "Iron -Lung„
Is Made Of Glass
Iron - lung patients frequently
complain of their invmobility.
Encased inside a machine weigh-
ing half a ton, they are not easily
moved about,
S o m e, more sensitive than
others, suffer psychological dis-
orders through the feeling of
being confined or trapped amid
a mass of oppressively heavy
metal work. And nearly all, un-
less exceptionally fortunate, are
robbed of the pleasure of going
places and so enjoying a change
of scene,
But now these drawbacks
should soon disappear, due to a
newly designed artificial respir-
ator made of fibre glass, the pro-
duct of a group of Australian
doctors and technicians working
an iron -lung problems in Mel-
bourne.
The new fibre -glass lung per-
forms its life-sustaining task just
as efficiently as the conventional
iron lung.
But instead of being a formiid-
aible and practically immovable
heavyweight, the new model is
Es light as selene can make it.
It extends only five feet long, is
twenty iuubee wide, and a Aer-
0'r.• normal strength can lift
It easily into the back of a sta-
tion wagon.
The first model made with fi-
bre glass was provided for a girl
who has had to spend every night
in an iron lung since she con-
tracted polio eight years ago. Her
parents installed the iron lung at
their home.
"Our family outings," said the
girl's mother, "were much re-
stricted because of the lung's.
weight, Now, with this new mo-
del, we can take our daughter
pretty weld everywhere with a
minimum of discomfort, both for
her and for us."
EVER HAPPEN TO YOU?
By Bioko
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Just Forty Miles
Away From Justice
Waldo Cummings could just
see the upper part of the
young man's right hand resting
on the back of the front seat of
his Pontiac - a hand decorated
with a small blue and red heart
with a dagger plunged through
1t,
The car sped an towards
Amarillo, now about fifty mules
away. In the car there was si-
lence. Mrs. Cummings had tried
to reason with the young main,
"You don't think I'm mad
enough to take you into Amar-
illo so that you can hand me
over to the cops, do you?" he
had replied.
The Texas night was quiet,
but then on this lonely highway
it is always dead quiet at mid-
night — that was why Mr.
Cummings had stopped when
the lonely man thumbed a lift.
He knew now that he'd been
foolish to stop. Only a few
weeks ago when he picked up a
hiker a few miles outside his
ham.e town, Amarillo, Police
Chief Dawes had warned him:
"Waldo, cut it out, One of these
nights you'll pick up a murderer
or robber."
But Chief 9gwes 'knew that
Cummings would never listen.
The fifty -year-old storekeeper
was known throughout the area
as a kind man — ane who never
turned away anyone in need,
"This will do," Mr. Cummings
heard the young mean say. He
calculated that they were about
forty miles away from Amarillo.
He tried to keep calm for the
sake of his forty -eight-year-old
wife, Natalie,
"I'll have your money," the
youth said, "and yours," looking
at Mrs. Cummings, who was
trembling.
"Sixty-one measly dollars,"
the youth grunted, "this all you
gat?"
"You are very young," Mrs,
Cummings said, "Why do you
throw away your life like this?
My husband and I will drive
you where you want to go and
even help you with some money
to get started—"
"You must think me a green-
horn, lady," the youth snapped.
"First chance you got you'd turn
me over to the cops. The two of
you get out here. You only got
forty miles to Amarillo."
"You don't expect us to walk
forty miles, do you?" Mrs, Cum-
mings said,
"Get out and stop arguing.
The exercise will be good for
you,"
Waldo and Natalie Cummings
climbed from the car, watched t
the youth slide in behind the #1
wheel, and speed off into the
night towards Amarillo. Cum-,
'pings shrugged: "Unless we .'t
want to stay here all night we
had better ,tart walking, Nat- r
elle."
They rested and kept looking
back in case a ear came their
way, but they had to trudge on
until seven in the morning when
a milk lorry picked them up and
SOVIET SUBMARINE ---- The U.S. Navy released this photo of o new type Soviet subm,.,nne
1 •.`,eyed to be armed with ballistic missiles. Such subs hove been sighted in both the
1Jr ntic and Pacific, the Navy said,
drove them home. Chief Dawes
saw them there a few minutes
later and took a statement,
, The Cummings' car was found
abandoned in a side street un-
damaged, but of the young rob-
ber there was no sign.
Mr, Cummings told his wife
that evening that he was going
out. He had in his twenty years
in the Texan town, helped
enough people to go back to
thean and ask a little assistance,
and all he wanted now was to
find someone who recognized
the youth's description.
He spent six evenings visiting
people he had helped, before he
found a man whom I'll call Jack
Smith, who had been out of pri-
son only a few months.
"I ain't no squealer, Mr, Cum-
mings," Jack Smith said, "but
you been very good to my wife
and kids while I was in Okla-
home City jail. There was a kid
in the jail doing a year for rob-
bery. Ile fits your description,
fits it perfectly,"
"I am going to Oklahoma City
for a day or two on business,"
Mr, Cummings told his wife the
next day. For two nights he
visited the clubs and cafes where
he thought the youth might hang
out and on the third night saw a
familiar figure at a, slot mach-
ine.
Mr. Cummings moved up be-
hind the youth and glanced at the
hand that held the slot machine
handle, Tattooed on its back was
A heart In red and blue with a
dagger through it.
The youth felt something hard
prod him in the back and a voice
saying very quietly: "Just walk
to the door, slowly and carefully
and don't make any fast moves
or I will not hesitate to shoot
you."
Once they were out in the
street Mr, Cummings slipped
some handcuffs on the youth's
wrists, prodded him into his car
and drove off, writes Bill Whar-
ton in "Tit -Bits".
"What are you going to do with
me?" the youth asked anxiously,
"I'm sorry I held you and your
missus up but I needed a car and
some dough badly."
"You didn't consider that my
wife and I are both getting on in
years and that forty miles is an
awful long way for us to walk,
slid you?"- Mr, Cummings asked,
When they reach Lubbock Mr.
Cummings stopped at a phone
box, and although it was after
eleven at night lie put through
u call to Chief Dawes,
"Meet me at the crossroads at
seven tomorrow morning, Chief,"
Cummings said.
1-te then drove on towards
Amarillo, and after a while drew
up again. "Get out now, young
man," he ordered. "It was just
about here that you made us get
out, wasn't it?"
Mr. Cummings took out a ten-
foot length of rope, looped it
around the youth's waist with a
slip knot which he drew taut,
knotting the other end to the rear
of the car, leaving a length of
about six feet between the rear
of the car and the youth, "The
law will give you a few years,
but the law can't make you walk
as you made my wife and myself
walk, Now, I had on good walk-
ing shoes, but my wife had on
semi -high heels and walking was
torture,
"We must try to even the score
and make you feel a little of
what we felt, Take your shoes
off, You may keep your socks
ori."
The youth sat down on the
road and Mr. Cummings ripped
his shoes off,
"Now I think we are all set,"
he said, "I shall drive at three or
four miles an hour and stop
every half hour just as my wife
and I did to rest,"
"What if I won't walk?" the
youth shouted after Mr, Cum-
mings.
"Then I'm afraid your behind
will be a little raw, because I am
driving on whether you walk or
not,"
Slowly the car edged towards
Amarillo at between three and
four miles per hour, stopping for
five minutes every thirty min-
utes. But the time they had cov-
ered fifteen miles the youth was
weeping as he straggled along
behind the car.
"I can't go any farther," he
screamed at about six in the
morning,
"It's all right, young man," Mr.
Cummings said soothingly, "It's
only another hour or so then you
will get a lift."
They came to the top of an in-
cline and below, in the hollow,
Mr. Cummings saw the police
car and slowly approached it as
Chief Dawes and a patrol officer
alighted and stared unbelieving-
ly at the Pontiac approaching
with the stumbling figure behind,
They untied the robber and or-
dered him into the pollee ear. Mr.
Cummings smiled and took the
toy pistol from his pocket,
He reached home in plenty of
time for breakfast, "I have fin-
ished my business," he told Nat-
alie. "How are your feet now?"
She smiled, "Recovering all
right. In a few days I will be able
to walk properly again, even
halfway from Plainview to
Amarillo."
"It's an awfully long walk,"
Mr. Cummings said thoughtfully.
"You can say that again!" his
wife said with a smile. "It's an
awfully long walk!"
"I understand that these are
leftovers," said the husband pa-
tiently. "What I want to know
is, where am I when you serve
the meals they come from?"
Believing in dreams is lots of
fun until you marry one.
ISSUE 41 — 1966
Mystery Which May
Never Be Solved
Three German rocket 'experts
were missing from their accus-
tomed orbits last month, and be-
hind them they loft a tale ofin-
ternational intrigue in the best
tradition of E. Phillips Oppen-
heim, Significantly, all three
were connected with the Egyp-
tian missile program which
Gamal Abdel Nasser hopes will
turn the balance of the Arab-
Israeli arms race in his favor,
The missing men were;
Dr. Heinz Ifrug — His Intra
Trading Co, le Stuttgart supplied
most of the parts used in Nasser's
El Safir and El I4ahir rockets,
shown to the public in test firings
last July. He was last seen in
Munich, driving off in his red
sports car with a suave, English-
speaking Arab who identified
himself only as "Mr. Saleh." Sev-
eral days later, Krug's car was
found covered with dust, and his
wife complained to police: "My
husband has been kidnapped,"
Dr. Wolfgang Pliz - Ile helped
develop the French rocket Ver-
onique before going to Egypt to
work on Nasser's missiles to a
military plant at Helwan, a sub-
urb of Cairo, Ile was last seen
heading south on the Autobahn
out of Munich in a new turquoise
Volkswagen bus especially equip-
ped for the desert,
]Prof. Paul Gorke — He also
worked at the Helwan plant, and
was recruited along with Prof,
Eugen Sanger, former head of
the institute of Jet Propulsion
Research in Stuttgart and the
real brain behind Nasser's rock-
etry. Sanger resigned from his
laboratory and severed his con-
nections with Nasser following
sharp public criticism in Ger-
many, but the others stayed on
in Helwan, Gorke, too, was last
seen in Munich,
The mysterious disappearances
of the three rocketeers touched
off. a Europe -wide manhunt, But
as of the weekend, neither local
police in Munich, the interna-
tional police organization (Inter-
pol), nor West Germany's intelli-
gence sleuths had turned up a
single solid clue as to their
whereabouts,
There were plenty of theories,
One was that they had gone over
to the Communists. Another,
loudly proclaimed by the Arab
press and some friends of the
trio was that Israeli agents had
abducted them in a desperate ef-
fort to keep Nasser out of the
missile age.
The Israeli Government said
nothing. But the newspaper Ha-
boker offered an intriguing ex-
planation. Krug had been abduct-
ed by the Egyptians, it said, be-
cause he was about to switch
Sides and supply Israel with
rocket parts,
An anonymous letter to his
wife claimed Krug had been
murdered, His friends said that
the arms merchant had mention-
ed he was being shadowed short-
ly before he disappeared. It was
possible that all three, after re-
ceiving threats, had simply gone
underground,
They might well be 6 feet un-
derground. If they are — interna-
tional intrigue being what it is
— it may be a long time before
anyone finds out.
Lives there a mare tttth soul so
dead,
Who never turned his eyes and
said,
"Ifusmnm, not bad!"
Sim
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