This book contains a concise yet detailed guide on duck hunting, including remarks on blinds, decoys, making a hide, shelters, bird flights, trapping, and much more. This book is both informative and accessible, making it perfect for the amateur. A book sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in this avocation, 'A Guide for the Duck Hunter' is well deserving of a place in any collection of hunting literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Wildfowl Shooting ¿ Duck Shooting', 'Guns for Duck Shooting', 'Blinds, Decoys', 'Making a Hide', 'The M. B. Curtain', 'When Inside a New Hide', 'Shelters in Open Fields', 'The Hen-coop Reproduction', 'Miscellaneous Hints', 'The Flight of Birds', 'Your Shoot', 'On Trapping Woodpigeons and Winged Vermin', 'The Legal Aspect of Wildfowling', 'The Gun for the Job', and 'More about Guns'. We are proud to republish this antique text here complete with a new introduction on shooting wildfowl.