MI. P ///:. is. -i XT SHOOTING {PART III} 197 



When guns are posted inside a covert, place them 

 all in line. On no -account in covert ever place a gun 

 out of line as, for instance, a few yards behind the 

 other shooters. Nothing is more likely to cause an 

 accident than an irregular line of guns standing in 

 covert, with trees or shrubs to conceal one gun from 

 the next, or any one from any other. An accident 

 could not perhaps occur when pheasants are being 

 killed overhead on such occasions, but a shot at a hare 

 or rabbit might easily be a dangerous one. It is too 

 late to apologise when jou have put a charge of No. 6 

 into a fellow- shooter's legs ; nor is it any excuse your 

 doing so because he was behind a tree, and you had 

 no notion hs was in your vicinity. You ought not to 

 have tired when you could not plainlv see the result 

 of your shot. 



A woodcock (especial!} 7 if there is a 5s. sweep on 

 his life) is often, from his low flight, a source of 

 danger, when guns are posted inside a covert. On 

 these occasions I sometimes feel inclined to lie down 

 and shout for mercy. 



Beware, too, of the ' JUNGLE HUNTER ; ' though 

 perhaps a delightful companion at other times, he is 

 a terrible fellow when handling a gun ; place him only 

 in the open. The 'jungle hunter ' is the man whose 

 idea is to kill all the game he sees, whatever be 

 the risk to other shooters or to the beaters. He 



