ROE-DEER SHOOTING. 



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ROE-DEER SHOOTING. 

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Roe-deer shooting is conducted similarly to hare 

 shooting in covert. While the covers are beaten, 

 the shooters, placed at certain points, fire at the 

 roes as they dash past them, with large buck shot. 

 They are mostly seen in pairs, or bevies of five, 

 six, or seven. 



The red-deer is sometimes unharboured in cover ; 

 but for the most part his lair is on the plain or 

 mountain-side ; his horns seem to unfit him for 

 making way through thickets. The roe beds in 

 the woods ; it is essentially the deer of the woods, 

 being seldom found so much as three miles from 

 cover. It does much mischief to young trees, and 

 the labours of the agriculturist. When discovered 

 in growing corn, it is usually shot with a rifle. In 

 cultivated districts interspersed with wood and 

 rock the roe abounds, and it is looked upon by 



