DEEK-STALKING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE RIFLE AND THE SPY-GLASS. 



IN the present day the double-barrelled '450 breech- 

 loading express rifle is the weapon most usually carried 

 by the deer-stalker. In price they range from twenty 

 to seventy pounds. If you are a Mr. Longpurse, at 

 about the latter figure, Henry, Rigby, Grant, or Purday 

 will give you all you can desire in the way of build, 

 finish, and sighting, and you never need " fash yoursel " 

 about the shooting it is certain to be straight. 



There are also plenty of other most excellent rifle- 

 makers, and one has but to study the advertising 

 columns of the Field to meet with all one requires. If 

 you belong to the far more numerous but equally 

 honourable family of the Shortpurses, to which the 

 writer himself is all too closely allied, then you must use 

 your judgment where you purchase, and even though 

 it cost some days and considerable trouble, do not buy 

 without shooting the rifle yourself at the target, use 

 a rest, and have the cartridges loaded in your presence, 

 and see that the loads are correct. 



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