BULLET AND SHOT 



lie down, or enter a field of standing crop, the wiser 

 course is to sit quiet for a time and watch, rather 

 than risk losing the buck, as may easily happen 

 should he press on and disturb the latter before 

 his wound has had time to stififen. 



Sometimes, a small band, consisting entirely of 

 young bucks, is met with, and occasionally also 

 a fine old black male, who, from choice or from 

 necessity, leads a single life, and such a one is 

 usually exceedingly wary. 



At times, too, a herd (or a single buck) may be 

 found in such a position, that, while stalking is out 

 of the question, there is a possibility of the game 

 being driven to the sportsman. Perhaps the latter 

 may have found the herd in the same place before, 

 and have noticed the line which the animals took 

 when disturbed. In such an event it is worth 

 while to try a drive, the sportsman concealing 

 himself behind any cover which may lie in their 

 former line of retreat Driving, however, except 

 in preserves, is seldom successful, but the main 

 point to impress, upon the two or three men who 

 may be sent to perform the manoeuvre, is that they 

 should make a very wide circuit, and get far behind 

 the game before attempting to advance towards it 

 with the object of driving it forward. 



Directly a buck has fallen to the shot, the sports- 

 man should run up, and seizing him by one horn, 

 turn his horns down backwards, and cut his throat. 

 If he desires to preserve the head for subsequent 

 mounting, he should take care to cut low down, 

 so as to leave a long neck. He must, while 



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