My father was born in Scotland and learned a lot about hunting and fishing there as a wee lad. He immigrated to Canada and then to US a long time ago. He was 53 when I was born and now I am older than that myself.

He loved to hunt ducks. He made his own duck calls out of bamboo and hard rubber reeds that he would get from Scotland and they were very much in demand around the local area. He was a tremendous shot with his Model 12 and once went 22 one shot kills on pheasants over his field champion German Short-hair.

Dad started taking me duck hunting at age 10 and many wonderful memories were made hunting with him and my brother before we were starting to move away from home to go to college. He and a bunch of his buddies built a movable wood-framed duck blind that had big huge skids on it with a roof and a build in bench under the roof. They would pay the local farmer to move the thing with his tractor whenever the river channels moved and the hunting was better in a different spot on the river. One of the guys that he used to hunt with was a WWII vet and had a German Luger that he would use on geese and with quite a bit of success. I know that by reloading a 9mm myself that getting a velocity to 1100fps is not hard to do at all and that was a common speed for the lead shot back in this time period. Figuring out the lead with a 9mm would then be somewhat similar to shooting a shotgun at 'em. I never meet the guy that Dad talked about but, as a shootist, Dad was very impressed with his marksmanship.

Anyone else ever hear about his happening or was it at all common back in this day????

Cool story and not alltogether unbelievable!

I've heard all sorts of stories of folks killing various wildfowl with rifles, but this is the first one with a Luger - cool.

Of course nowadays, he'd be facing some serious charges frm Fish and Game department!

None the less - great story!

JW

Not sure if this is legal in USA.

Check out this video on YouTube....Duck Hunting with Bow and Arrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...5dwg&feature=related

Five or six years before he passed away, my father, who enjoyed goose hunting but had begun to find it physically taxing, decided that the Canada Geese in the city park across from his house were too numerous and too sassy. He sashayed across the street and into the park, and in short order had harvested three honkers...with his cane.

He was plucking the third one when the police arrived. The CO didn't show up until the next day, when the first goose was on the dining room table. Much talking and admonishing ensued, but the long and the short of it was that he had a licence, he had not discharged a firearm, and technically he had done nothing illegal.

He finished up his season with one or two more "hunts" in the park and became somewhat of a local celebrity, detested by some and indulgently admired by others. He gave several plucked-and-cleaned carcasses to friends and neighbours, and thoroughly enjoyed the notoriety.

Guns? We don't need no stinking guns!

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Originally posted by jwm:
Five or six years before he passed away, my father, who enjoyed goose hunting but had begun to find it physically taxing, decided that the Canada Geese in the city park across from his house were too numerous and too sassy. He sashayed across the street and into the park, and in short order had harvested three honkers...with his cane.



He was plucking the third one when the police arrived. The CO didn't show up until the next day, when the first goose was on the dining room table. Much talking and admonishing ensued, but the long and the short of it was that he had a licence, he had not discharged a firearm, and technically he had done nothing illegal.

He finished up his season with one or two more "hunts" in the park and became somewhat of a local celebrity, detested by some and indulgently admired by others. He gave several plucked-and-cleaned carcasses to friends and neighbours, and thoroughly enjoyed the notoriety.

Guns? We don't need no stinking guns!

Funny story.... I think I would have like the gentleman.

It would be fun if it was legal and there were enough geese. I'm by no means a magician with a pistol but hitting thrown beer bottles with a pistol is really pretty easy. Again, assuming legality, I'd use .38 WCs to limit downrange exposure.

I've always wanted to shoot ducks with a .22 but haven't because of legality and safety, but I might do it yet somewhere.

.22? .38WCs??? Everybody knows if you ain't using a 10ga you ain't really killing geese!!