California Fact
Acre for acre, the Central Valley of California supports more wintering waterfowl than anywhere else in North America. At peak times, this region hosts 5 to 7 million wintering waterfowl—more than 60 percent of the Pacific Flyway’s ducks and geese. As you would expect, the high ratio of birds to habitat results in some superb waterfowl hunting. This is especially true on private duck clubs in places such as Butte Sink, Suisun Marsh, and the Grasslands. Good public hunting is also available on several intensively managed national wildlife refuges and state wildlife areas in the region, which also support large numbers of wintering waterfowl.
Abundant species: pintails, mallards, wigeon, green-winged teal, Aleutian cackling geese,
white-fronted geese, light geese
Club Fact.
The Tulare Duck Club (a 12 Gun order of DHE 20’s with 32” barrels, 156100 serial number range) and the Wigeon Gun Club (a 10 Gun order of long barreled subgauge Parker’s)
share almost identical longitude and latitude.
Widgeon gun club
Latitude 36.78
Longitude -119.44
Tulare Duck Club
Latitude 36.42
Longitude -119.48
The Tulare guns (1911) predate the Wigeon guns by over 1 year.
Perhaps it’s true what they say,
“If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
Once again
HUGE thank you to Chuck Bishop
#154247 predates the Tulare guns by 6 months.
Advertised as 16 gauge, 32”, straight stock, 2 7/8” chambers.
