NOVEMBER SHOOTING 



Nearly three months have already passed away 

 since the shooting season began. I won't say the 

 three best months, because snipe and woodcock are 

 coming in, and the cream of the pheasant shooting 

 is yet to come. 



For myself, much as I like knocking over grouse 

 and partridges, give me snipe shooting before all. 

 It is the fox-hunting of shooting. 



I know of nothing more exciting than getting on 

 to a good snipe bog, when they lay well and there 

 are plenty of them. When they rise in ivhisps, 

 that is, several at a time, you may make up your 

 mind they are wild and difficult to approach. In 

 snipe shooting always have the wind on your 

 back. 



The snipe ever flies against the wind ; therefore 

 you have a much better shot than you would have 

 if he were to dart away down wind. 



If you take a dog, let it be a cautious, knowing 

 old pointer or setter ; the latter is the animal for 

 this sport, because he stands the cold and water 



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