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When turkeys are too wild to be shot with 

 a shot-gun, it is of little use to track them at 

 all. Resort must then be had to the method of 

 calling them up, and here the rifle may be used. 

 Except for very long shots, however, the shot- 

 gun is as good as the rifle, even when the tur- 

 keys are called up within distance of the shooter, 

 and in one important matter better there are 

 two barrels to one, and a miss may be mended 

 with the second. 



The best day of turkey -shooting I ever had was in 

 Missouri, on Shoal Creek, not a great distance from 

 the town of St. Jo, on the Missouri Eiver. I went 

 to that quarter on a regular shooting expedition, 

 prepared to stay some time. John D. Lindsay, 

 an old hunter, went first in order to look about 

 the neighborhood around St. Jo, and ascertain 

 what the prospects were. He wrote to me that 

 there were plenty of wild turkeys, deer, and other 

 game in the region round about Cameron, Lynn 

 County, and desired me to join him. I lost no 

 time in doing so, and was accompanied by Colonel 

 Roberts, who wanted to camp out. We took my 

 tent. Arriving at Cameron in the morning, I hired 

 a team. We took the tent and other things out 

 to a suitable spot about three or four miles from 



