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you use some aid to your memory. You 

 must know your exact score at the end 

 of each drive, or you will either waste 

 time hunting for imaginary birds, or else 

 leave dead birds lying on the ground 

 to rot. 



The difficulty of writing down your 

 birds as you kill them comes in a good 

 drive when you have your hands full, and 

 no spare time to give to anything but 

 shooting and changing your guns. Still, 

 it is not hard to keep the score in your 

 head for a short time during the heat of 

 the fray, jotting it down in the first lull. 



A post-card makes a convenient score 

 sheet, easy to write on and to keep 

 handy. 



Divide it into four, as shown in the 

 diagram ; your butt is in the middle, and 

 you can jot a number down showing 

 roughly where each bird fell, using an 

 arrow of direction for any bird which 

 carried on and fell farther than forty or 

 fifty yards off. 



You must be careful about shooting at 



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