Bogtrotting, etc. 1 1 1 



bolts as they flash from burrow to burrow or 

 across a narrow ride will understand what I 

 mean. Here again the gun is seldom brought 

 into the shoulder, often, indeed, scarcely 

 higher than the breast, and, in the case of 

 one or two " fliers," astonishing practice has 

 been made from the hip ! 



As regards elevation, the best advice on 

 this, as on most other points, is that given by 

 the writer of the chapter on snipe-shooting in 

 the Badminton Library, ** always aim above 

 a snipe',' though the reason given for it is 

 obviously not invariably accurate — i.e., that 

 ''the bird is pretty sure to be rising at the 

 time." As a matter of fact, quite a common 

 shot is that when a snipe is dipping in short 

 sharp jerks into the wind's eye, so that if you 

 were to look steadily along the midrib of the 

 gun you would as often lose sight of the 

 bird below it as you would see it above — the 

 former, it may be added, being the safest 

 instant at which to pull trigger. However, 

 whether a snipe is actually rising or not, it 

 must nearly always be treated as if it were, 



