14 VARIETIES OP SHOOTING. 



In sparrow trap-shooting, the rise is twenty-one yards, and 

 the boundary from forty to sixty yards from the traps. The 

 rules are the same as for pigeons in all other respects, and 

 the directions for shooting will also apply, the sole difference 

 being in the size of the shot, which may be No. 8, 9, or 10. 

 When two barrels are used, No. 10, or even dust-shot may 

 be employed for the first barrel if the gun scatters very 

 much, and No. 8 or 9 for the second ; but so much depends 

 on the pattern made at thirty and forty yards by the gun 

 intended to be used, that no positive directions can be 

 given suitable to all cases. The best plan is to use the largest 

 size which will cover a target sufficiently close to prevent a 

 sparrow escaping at each of the above distances ; and as this 

 can readily be tried, the experiment should never be neglected. 

 Sparrows often get away when hard hit with No. 9 or 10, 

 which sizes do not always break a wing-bone at forty yards, 

 and therefore, unless, as before remarked, the gun scatters 

 very much, No. 7 or 8 should be preferred. 



CHAPTER III. 

 OPEN SHOOTING. 



GKOUSE SHOOTING PARTRIDGE SHOOTING SNIPE SHOOTING. 



BEFORE proceeding to describe the nature of each kind of 

 shooting, it will be necessary to allude to the varieties of 

 grouse, partridges, and snipe respectively, to the nature of 

 their habitat, the dogs used in finding them, and the best 

 kind of gun for killing them. 



GROUSE SHOOTING. 



The varieties of grouse which are met with in this country 

 are four, but in America, and in other parts of the globe, 

 they are vastly more numerous. Of these four the capercaillie is 

 very rarely found in Great Britain, having only recently been 



