QUAIL SHOOTING 



true, but that they make a regular practice of 

 feeding in the afternoon I doubt. To a man 

 who has hunted quail for years the country 

 wherever he goes is an open book, so far as 

 the best place to go for the birds is concerned. 

 He can tell at a glance where the likeliest 

 places are. In a wheat and corn country the 

 birds will be found in the edges of the stub- 

 bles and in the cornfields up to nine or ten 

 o'clock, and after that in the sloughs, thick- 

 ets, woods, or hedges adjoining their feeding- 

 grounds. They are birds that require water, 

 and as a rule they will be found along bushy 

 creeks next to the fields after feeding-time. 

 Old orchards are fine places for them, espe- 

 cially around deserted farm-houses. In a 

 strictly prairie country the osage orange 

 hedges are their favorite haunts after feed- 

 ing in the morning. 



When a bevy rises, with that rush of wings 

 so characteristic of the birds, the novice may 

 think there is going to be a great destruction 

 of quail. But the first shots may be the last at 

 that particular bunch. Or maybe one or two 

 other shots may be had, and no more. The 

 quail is a very puzzling bird at times, and a 

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