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I always take a long aim. In three days 

 and three hours (for it began to rain on the 

 fourth day, very heavy, by tv/elve o'clock,) 

 my partner and 1 shot eighty-six hares. I 

 shot above fifty of them, and we neither of 

 us missed one shot. 



Shooting with . t i 1 i. '^1 



large siiot. As 1 always shoot with uncommon 



large shot, Number 2, patent, from the 

 first of September, to the last day of Janu- 

 ary, I frequently mortally wound hares at 

 a great distance. Knowing, when I hold 

 them well, that I must have wounded them, 

 I always follow them with my dogs, and 

 many dozens have I recovered above a 

 quarter of a mile distant, v. hich otherwise 

 would have crept into a ditch and died. I 



Effect of large golemuly dcclarc I have shot numbers of 

 hares above seventy yards, when they ran 

 across me, so as to shoot them in the fore- 

 quarters ; so that they never have run five 

 yards : and once I saw a man, with a gun 

 of mine, shoot a hare one or two yards 

 above eighty, and she never ran above one 

 hundred and fifty yards. These distances 

 were measured, not computed, 



I once shot a partridge flying directly 



