CHAPTER V. 



HINTS TO BEGINNERS IN BISON SHOOTING 



IT sometimes happens that a novice, who wishes 

 to go out bison shooting, is obliged to do so 

 without the advantage of the company of an old 

 hand to show him how to set about it. 



Of course, if a beginner can arrange to be 

 accompanied for the first three or four days by 

 an experienced sportsman, he will learn much from 

 the latter, and will thereafter be able to go out 

 alone with a good chance of success ; but as it is 

 not infrequently the case that he must needs go 

 alone, or with another tyro as new to the work 

 as himself, and in the hope of such being useful 

 in these cases, I propose to give a few detailed 

 hints of the modus operandi. 



Two men cannot shoot together without sacrifice 

 of sport when this particular game is the object 

 of pursuit, except when an experienced sportsman 

 takes the beginner under his wing, and is (as any 

 true sportsman will be) willing to forego his own 

 chance of shooting until he has taught his pupil 

 sufficient to enable the latter to go out alone 

 with some knowledge of his game. If, therefore, 

 two beginners should arrange to go on a bison 



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