Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — KILLS DUCKS BY BOOMERANG [ARTICLE]

KILLS DUCKS BY BOOMERANG

Sportman Says He Bagged Twelve on Eight Throws—Hurls One Into Water, Another as Flock Rises. St. Joseph, Mo. —An American hunter who carries boomerangs Instead of a repeating shotgun is a curosity. but Vernon Tantlinger. a local nimrod, uses the Australian war weapon when be goes after ducks. — Tantlinger is ap expert with the boomerang and recently bagged twelve ducks with eight throws of his club. Tantlinger says that as the statutes do not prohibit the use oi boomerangs he can hunt within the city limits whenever he can find game. His mode of action in killing wild ducks is to throw one boomerang Into a flock when it is on the water, and when the birds rise he is ready to hurl another stick into the, flock as it is bunched upon the wing.