QUAIL SHOOTING 



bering with excitement as he points the bird, 

 you will not be able to see " bob-white " 

 until he flies. They have a great trick of slip- 

 ping under the overhanging fringe of bank 

 along a creek when driven into that kind of 

 cover, and a dog is needed to get them out 

 of these hiding-places always. Sometimes 

 they will fly into the trees and fool a hunter, 

 and they will take advantage of fences and 

 tree-trunks when they get up, putting such 

 objects between the hunter and themselves. 

 They will get up back of you, too, after you 

 have passed, and sometimes fly close to the 

 ground, or spring straight up through the 

 trees at times, and in many ways elude the 

 hail of shot. 



They get into full speed from the jump, 

 and yet a quail is not a hard bird to shoot, 

 excepting in thick cover or in tall standing 

 corn. It takes quick shooting, but at close 

 range, as most of the work is done, a man 

 should get three out of five in fairly open 

 cover right along. The birds are fully grown 

 by the first of November, and well able to 

 take care of themselves. It is curious to note 

 the difference between birds that are found 

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