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LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS 



RAB 



RABBITS and rabbit shooting, re- 

 sults of shooting experiments 

 with choke and cylinder bores, 

 i. 89, 90; dangerous practices 

 when shooting, 94-96, ii. 197 ; 

 how the gun should be carried 

 when covert shooting, i. 107 ; 

 near shots at rabbits, 111 ; 

 charge and shot for, 209, 210; 

 how to make them lie out for 

 shooting, 256-259, ii. 390-394; 

 estates favourable to, 137, 141 ; 

 love of buckwheat, 158; popu- 

 larity of rabbit shooting, 377 ; 

 effect of the Ground Game Act 

 on, 378 ; four requisites for pre- 

 serving rabbits, 379 ; on bolting 

 rabbits for shooting, 380-383; 

 three methods : with ferrets, 383, 

 384; with fuse and saturated 

 paper, 383, 384 ; digging out the 

 burrows, 383, 384, 390 ; how to 

 prepare for a day's sport, 384- 

 388 ; where to commence bolting 

 operations, 389 ; treatment of 

 sitting-out rabbits, 389 ; bolting 

 with ferrets described, 395-397 ; 

 on catching rabbits alive to 

 shoot, 397-399 ; method of set- 

 ting net to keep them above 

 ground, 399-401; how to kill, 

 401-404 ; dangerous practices 

 when shooting, 404, 405 ; on 

 showing (driving) rabbits to the 

 guns, 406, 407 ; how to manage 

 a corner, illustrated, 408, 409 ; 

 the preservation of rabbits, 409- 

 411 ; how to save from poachers, 

 411 ; and from starvation, 412 ; 

 destruction to trees through 

 hunger, 412, 413 ; how to rid a 

 garden or inclosure of rabbits, 

 illustrated, 414, 415 ; wire fenc- 

 ing for protecting plantations, 

 415-418 ; traps for rabbits, 419 ; 

 nets, 419; their antipathy to 

 hares, 425 



Eats, ii. 62, 95, 107, 158 



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! Bearing, pheasant, ii. 20 - 136 ; 



partridge, 256-261 

 Recoil, i. 204, 219, 220 

 Reilly's ' cripple-stopper,' i. 78 

 Retrievers, ii. 13, 208, 354, 355, 

 370, 371, 453 ; the education of, 

 465, 470 ; ancestors of, 472, 473 ; 

 twelve points in the selection of, 

 473-476 ; behaviour, 476-478 ; 

 how and when to train, 479 ; first 

 lesson, obedience, 479-482 ; gun- 

 shy, 481 ; how to cure, 482 ; 

 second lesson, ' down charge,' 

 482-486 ; third lesson, fetch and 

 carry, 486-490 ; fourth lesson, 

 seek and find by siprht, 490-492 ; 

 fifth lesson, by scent, 492-494; 

 sixth lesson, to keep at heel and 

 ware chase, 494-498 ; seventh 

 lesson, breaking to game dead 

 birds, 498-503 ; eighth lesson, 

 wounded birds, 503-505 ; general 

 instructions on breaking to game, 

 506-509 



Ring dove, ii. 461, 462 

 Rock dove, ii. 463 



i Rooks and game preserves, ii. 28, 

 96, 143, 261 



SCHULTZE POWDEB, i. 199-205, and 

 gun headache, 201 ; cartridge, 

 204 



Scotland, shooting in, ii. 12, 142, 

 265, 267, 297-300, 357 



Setters, game shooting over, and 

 driving contrasted, ii. 2-4, 9, 12, 

 13 ; grouse shooting with the aid 

 of, 263-267, 279-297 ; the educa- 

 tion of, 465 



' Shake,' the, of a gun, how to test, 

 i. 54 



Sheep inimical to grouse, ii. 278, 

 308 



Shelters, artificial, for partridge 

 driving, ii. 251, 252 ; for grouse 

 driving, 309 ; suitable position 

 for, 309-312, 315-319 ; number, 

 312, 313 ; distance apart, 313- 



