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experience in quail shooting than Mr. B. Waters, who 

 has written one of the very best articles on this sub- 

 ject that has ever been penned, which in substance 

 reads as follows: 



BOBWHITE SHOOTING. 



From the personal point of view, each one gener- 

 ally has his own preference in respect to the bird which 

 he prefers to shoot to secure the greatest pleasure, and 

 this preference in turn determines the shooter's opin- 

 ion that such bird is therefore the best of all birds 

 for the purpose of sport. Thus, one prefers ducks, and 

 not considering that his own personal idiosyncrasies, 

 or greater success, or habit and long association, or 

 what not, may have much to do with his preference, he 

 solemnly affirms that duck shooting is the best of all 

 shooting. And so with him whose choice of sport is 

 the shooting of some other bird that bird is sure to 

 be exalted above all others. 



But from the standpoint of the greatest good to 

 the greatest number, quail shooting, for many reasons, 

 is the best of all shooting. It is a kind which affords 

 such mixed shooting K)pen and cover, slow and swift 

 that shots can be found to meet the skill and fancy 

 of all, be the former little or great and the latter 

 fastidious. 



There is much of the open quail shooting which is 

 not so difficult as to dishearten him of moderate skill, 

 while, on the other hand, shooting in cover tests the 



