ON BIG GAME SHOO TING GENERALLY _ 13 
Pe he shoots too low. Put your cap under your 
- rifle if you are going to shoot from a rock rest ; shoot from a 
__ rest whenever you can, and if you miss the est shut, doen te 
_ Frenchman wanted to when pheasant shooting, i.e. wait until 
4 he stops. If it is aram or a deer, unless he has seen or winded 
_ you, it is a thousand to ten that he will stop within 50 yards or 
‘so to look back to see what frightened him before leaving the 
_ country. When he stops you will get another chance at a 
stationary object, and one shot of this kind is worth a good 
_ many ‘onthe jump.’ If a beast does not look likely to stand 
again after the first shot, a sharp whistle will sometimes stop him. 
q You will hear, especially from Americans, who very often 
- can shoot uncommonly well with the Winchester, and from 
Indians, who are the poorest shots inthe world, of extra- 
_ Ordinary shots at long ranges. Pay no attention to them. 
_ If youcannot get within 200 yards of game, except antelope 
_ in an open country, you are a poor stalker ; and rely upon it 
more game is killed within 80 yards than is fired at over 200. 
Indians get what game they kill, not by their fine shoot- 
_ ing at long ranges, but by their clever creeping and stalking. 
At the same time, there is a limit to everything, and if you 
_ attempt to get too close, a glimpse of your cap, which would 
_ Only make a deer stare at 150 yards, will make him dash off 
_ as if wolves were after him at 50 yards. 
Having dropped your stag, lie still (if you have wounded 
him only, this is still more necessary) and reload, as many a 
_. man has been terribly disappointed at seeing a deer which he 
_ considered was ‘in the bag’ get up and go off from under the 
_ very muzzle of an unloaded rifle. But your stalk may end with- 
out your getting a shot. Some puff of wind of which you had 
" nO suspicion may warn your quarry before you get within range 
_ of him, and if this happens, watch which way he goes, and do 
_ you go by another way, for he will put every beast he passes in 
his flight upon the ‘ qui vive.’ 
_ Incase of wounded game do not be in too great a hurry 
"to follow it. A wounded beast which is pressed will go on 
