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...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...
...Example: Duck traveling 50 m.p.h. 50 yds. from muzzle of gun. Shot charge at 900 ft. per sec. requires 1/6 sec. to travel 50 yds. Duck at 50 m.p.h. travels 264,000 ft. per hr.-73 1/3 ft. per sec. or 12 2/9 ft. in 1/6 sec. If you shoot directly at him you are mathematically certain to miss him 122/9...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
...Duck Hunters attention: Issue...
...melodramatic moil of cinema is a strange background for Helen Chandler. A fragile blonde, she gained stage fame as a wistful tragedienne (Hedwig in The Wild Duck; Ophelia in Hamlet; Marguerite in Faust}. Her story of her life...