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HIGH PHEASANTS : 
Series IX 
No. I —Stationary pheasant at a height of 40 yds. Six 
shots fired (over 1700 pellets). 
Result. — Twenty-four pellets lodged in the bird. One 
pellet in the heart ; one pellet broke the arm-bone of the 
right wing ; one pellet passed through the gullet ; ten pellets 
of the twenty-four just penetrated the skin, and remained 
between the skin and the flesh. Of the twenty-four pellets 
that hit the bird, twenty-one caused superficial wounds that 
would not have stopped its flight. 
The pellet that reached the heart was the only one that 
would have caused the immediate collapse of the bird, though 
the pellet in the gullet might have led to its eventual death, 
and the broken wing brought it to the ground. 
Average number of pellets per shot that struck the bird, 
six shots being fired = four. 
No. 2. — Stationary pheasant at a height of 50 yds. Twelve 
shots fired (over 3300 pellets). 
Result. — Nine pellets lodged in the bird, or less than an 
average of one pellet per shot. They inflicted slight superficial 
wounds, few penetrating further than the skin, and then 
only slightly bruising the flesh. 
No. 3.— Stationary pheasant at a height of 60 yds. Twelve 
shots fired (over 3300 pellets). 
Result.— No pellets penetrated the skin of the bird, though 
