A bicycle with a heavy load of duck.
Caption: A bicycle with a heavy load of duck. Mr Tronson, of Woolston, has made some very successful trips to Lake Ellesmere this season, several times securing the limit, 25 birds. During the first ten weeks of the season he secured 182 grey duck, 25 teal, 58 Paradise duck, and 6 swans. Mr Tronson is a first-class shot, as is shown by his getting 271 birds for 300 shots this season. During the opening week he fired 71 rounds, getting 59 ducks and 1 swan. In his last trip he got 30 ducks and two swans, and of these 20 ducks are on the handles of the bicycle. As showing his enthusiasm for sport, Mr Tronson made thirteen trips to Lake Ellesmere during the first ten weeks of the season, covering 520 miles on his bicycle, and has had to carry the game shot. He uses his own patent decoys, which are headless.
Description: ‘Tronson’ could be ‘Fronson’ (see P7310278)
Source: The weekly press, 24 July 1918, p. 25
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