FALL JACK-SNIPE 

 SHOOTING 



TO many hunters the sport of jack- 

 snipe shooting is the finest of all 

 field shooting. There are men who 

 have hunted the tiger in Ceylon, the elephant 

 in Africa, and moose, elk, grizzly-bear, and 

 antelope in America, who avow their prefer- 

 ence for wild-fowl shooting over any other 

 sport, and principally for snipe shooting at 

 its best. It is a separate and distinct kind 

 of shooting, and in the middle western states 

 it is best in the spring, although in the fall 

 the opportunity for using a dog is better. The 

 jack-snipe has what is termed a " cold scent," 

 as distinguished from quail and other upland 

 birds whose scent is much stronger and easier 

 to catch by the dog. In the spring the snipe 

 find cover in shorter grass and reeds, as a 

 rule, than they frequent in the fall, and do 

 not lie so close as the autumn birds do. In 

 both seasons they are hunted in the middle, 

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