Quail Shooting 



formality of aiming his gun is ob- 

 served the game will be beyond range 

 before he shoots. This leads to a 

 nerv ous, flustered pointing of the gun 

 in the direction of the bird's flight, 

 and its discharge at such close range 

 that the load of shot hardly separates 

 in the intervening distance. Nine 

 times out of ten the result is, of course, 

 a complete miss; and if the bird 

 should at any time under these condi- 

 tions be accidentally hit, it would be 

 difficult to find its scattered fragments. 

 An old quail shooter once advised 

 a younger one afflicted with this sort 

 of quick triggeritis: "When the bird 

 gets up, if you chew tobacco spit over 

 your shoulder before you shoot." 



It is absolutely certain that he who 

 aspires to do good quail shooting must 

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