PRAIRIE-CHICKEN SHOOTING 



he is as good as dead, unless the hunters are 

 " duffers." 



When a bird gets up in front of a man 

 that is his shot. If it gets up between the 

 men, the man who has invited his friend out 

 to shoot will give him the shot. And the 

 friend will insist on the inviter taking the 

 next shot of the kind when the dog makes a 

 point of that character. Should a covey rise, 

 each man will pick outside birds to prevent 

 both shooting at the same birds. It is per- 

 fectly allowable for a man to fire at a bird 

 his companion has missed with both barrels, 

 and to fire at either bird of " a double " which 

 his companion has missed. But if a man has 

 missed his first shot of a double rise and fol- 

 lows the bird shot at with the evident inten- 

 tion to get his second barrel in at the same 

 bird, then his companion can shoot at the 

 other bird of the double. Two men who 

 have hunted together never have any diffi- 

 culty about whose shot it is, or who should 

 take any particular shot. It is always as 

 much pleasure to see a friend make " a 

 double " as it is to make the shots yourself 

 oftentimes more. 



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