334 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
experience in quail shooting than Mr. B. Waters, who 
has written one of the very best articles on this sub- 
ject that has ever been penned, which in substance 
reads as follows: 
BOBWHITE SHOOTING. 
From the personal point of view, each one gener- 
ally has his own preference in respect to the bird which 
he prefers to shoot to secure the greatest pleasure, and 
this preference in turn determines the shooter’s opin- 
ion that such bird is therefore the best of all birds 
for the purpose of sport. Thus, one prefers ducks, and 
not considering that his own personal idiosyncrasies, 
or greater success, or habit and long association, or 
what not, may have much to do with his preference, he 
solemnly affirms that duck shooting is the best of all 
shooting. And so with him whose choice of sport is 
the shooting of some other bird—that bird is sure to 
be exalted above all others. 
But from the standpoint of the greatest good to 
the greatest number, quail shooting, for many reasons, 
is the best of all shooting. It is a kind which affords 
such mixed shooting—open and cover, slow and swift 
—that shots can be found to meet the skill and fancy 
of all, be the former little or great and the latter 
fastidious. 
There is much of the open quail shooting which is 
not so difficult as to dishearten him of moderate skill, 
while, on the other hand, shooting in cover tests the 
