"Eventual elimination of wildfowling as a field sport in America is not an impossibility." Thus ominously began a report on The Duck Decline in the Northwest issued last week by the foundation, More
Game Birds in America Inc. Alarming as it was, the statement sounded conservative to U. S. gunners and ammunition makers, already shocked by a rumor spreading throughout the land. The rumor, far graver than those of possible regulatory measures which worried sportsmen last summer (TIME, Aug. 28), was that a Federal ban would next year fall on all duck-shooting in the...
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