FALL JACK-SNIPE SHOOTING 



up before the dog, a man should do bet- 

 ter. In the fall snipe lie in higher, heavier 

 cover, especially on windy and cold days, and 

 it is beautiful sport then. Take some old 

 cow-pasture, wet and grown up with cat-tails 

 and a swampy and marshy growth, where 

 cattle have trampled down the cover, leav- 

 ing boggy spots here and there through the 

 field, and there the birds will always be found 

 when there are any snipe in the country. 

 Such spots will be found to be full of snipe 

 during the season, and even when the birds 

 are driven away they will come back again, 

 drifting in all day to such a favorite haunt. 

 On cold and blowy days they will lie well 

 to a dog, and a good setter or pointer will 

 be able to make a dozen points inside of 

 half an hour in such a field. One of the 

 great beauties about snipe shooting, so far as 

 the getting of the birds is concerned, is the 

 character of the shooting. It is all single or 

 double bird shooting, as jack-snipe do not 

 fly in flocks. Occasionally a wisp of from 

 three to five may be seen flying over the 

 meadows together, but when they light they 

 scatter, and when the hunter moves up to 

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