CHAPTER IV. 



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 LATE PINNATED-GROUSE SHOOTING. 



IN the preceding chapter I have described the 

 places and times to seek the pinnated grouse in 

 the earlier part of the shooting season, and pointed 

 out the methods of hunting for them by means of 

 which satisfactory success is most likely to be ob- 

 tained. We now come to the latter part of the 

 season, the months of October and November, 

 with that of December ; for the resolute and hardy 

 sportsmen who care nothing for cold and wet 

 may sometimes prefer a bag of winter grouse to 

 one of duck or brant. In the month of October 

 the prairies have become brown, and later on the 

 corn will have been wilted by the early frosts, 

 if it has not been already. Some of the best 

 shooting of the year, to my mind the very best, 

 is now before the sportsman ; but it needs work, 

 and young beginners will not find the grouse so 

 easy to kill as they were in August and Septem- 

 ber. In the early part of the season the best 

 shooting hours were early and late in the day. 



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