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66 tfy todayYleyre yonna said t)owns, at 3 A, M I'-*' 4S*. . . . and they didl ^TpHAT was in the shivering preI dawn hours when the decoys poked extended necks through the crate bars tfd gabbled their daily chorus ofcomplaint to the world-- when the darkness was blacker than blade can really be and when the wind, cutting out of the east under an ugly sky, promised weather in plenty and a pair ofcold feet apiece before the day was an hour older. "They're gonna fly today!" And they did. Black ducks came hurtling by all through the day. Widgeon, lingering long behind their kind in the frozen north, stopped to quack "hello". Broadbill twinkledalong die channel edge just beyond the outermost decoys. And in a flurry of Snow a score of traveling honkers'respOnded to the decoys' invitation to call. It was a great day for gunning... a great day for Ajax Heavies., .for, to the thrill ofgood shooting, Ajax Heavies added rhe greater thrill of longer rangeshooting...ofolding up birds at sporting distances, of mak ing more clean hits and far fewer ragged ones. And that, after all, was the thing that prompted Frank Downs, guide ofShinnecock Bay, to observe when he was "picking up" at the end of the day: "Take it..rom a bay-man and shoot Ajax Heavies all the time. No one never got no ducks shootin' puffballs--never!" Downs knows his wild fowL He "Takeitfroma bay-man,"saidFrankDowns as he was''picking up"at the end of the day, "and shoot AjaxHeavies. No one never got no ducks shootin' puff balls--NEVER!" gets diem. Downs knows his Ajax Heavies. He shoots them. Andevery body else, knowing Downs, goes straight-way to the nearest dealer's and buy? them in lacquered or regu lar waterproofed black casings and in 12,1<5 or 20 gauge. There's a XJ. S. shell or cartridge far every shooting purpose, for every shooter's purse, including Climax, Climax Heaviesand De fiance shells, U. S. Improved Tbirty/Thirties and other biggame,cartridges, Self-Cleaning tint-fires and centre-fires, and the famous .22 N. R. A's. AJAX HEAVIES UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE CO., Ill Broadway, New York, N. Y. General Selling Agents: National Lead Company, Buffalo, Chicago, Sc._ Louis, Cincinnati, Saa Francisco; New York: Naeipnai-BostOij Lead Company, Boston; John T. Lewis & Bros.'Co., Philadelphia; Merchants Hardware Limited, Calgary, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. .Canada, KU-58--Field & Stream, November, 1930 Hunting & Fishing--National Sportsman, November American, November,'. Life, November j&jwtd,.- N 27934 0000-NLI-000014126