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FOREST AND STREAM 
Know 
Your 
Birds 
AMERICAN 
GAME BIRDS 
Water Birds — Game Birds 
— Upland and Shore Birds 
— In Colors 
By CHESTER A. REED 
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One hundred and sixty species of birds 
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are to be found at different seasons of 
the year. 
NEARLY 
160 
BIRD 
PICTURES 
IN 
NATURAL 
COLORS 
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December, 1921 
ing somewhere near circle No. io, for 
the reason that the target had risen 
something like six or eight inches dur- 
ing the interval necessary for the mis- 
sile to go from muzzle to mark. 
A SHOT that I have found to be 
very effective in the case of game 
running broadside is one that strikes in 
the neighborhood of circle No. 5. This 
results in breaking both front legs 
and comes about as close as possible to 
stopping the game in your vicinity. Just 
the same I have seen a big buck run for 
a little distance when hit thus in his 
rear legs alone. A hit in the forelegs, 
which seem to be held pretty closely to- 
gether in the running movement, will 
stop your quarry long enough for a shot 
that will finish him and is one that pre- 
sents itself to the game shooter far more 
times than that of breaking both rear 
legs at one shot. Of course the hind 
legs are usually further apart and this 
must be the reason why only one rear 
leg is generally hit at a time. Under- 
stand, I am speaking of a broadside shot 
or one that is at a very slight angle. In 
the case of the straightaway shot that is 
often presented I suppose that the best 
you can do is to hold your breath and 
aim for any part that you can hit. I 
saw a buck weighing 217 pounds shot 
dead by a bullet from a little “pop gun,” 
that did not throw an expanding bullet, 
where the missile went the whole length 
of the body, coming out at the neck. It 
killed for the reason that it went 
straight up through the cavity of the 
vital organs. 
About the unluckiest shot that a 
hunter can get into his game is the one 
located about where circle No. 6 is 
placed. This causes sure death, but only 
after several hours, and is a shot that 
is nothing short of a slow crucifixion 
for the animal. Then some hits that 
seem never to slacken the pace may 
come at No. 7, but pretty surely will 
cause death, perhaps after days or weeks, 
but in a place where the shooter can 
never get his meat. Any hit in the rear 
quarters of an animal is the mark of a 
mighty poor shooter and if only this 
kind of a hit can be scored the rifle had j] 
better never be shot. 
A shot in the front quarters will in- 
variably knock the game over if the 
right rifle i§ used, but will hardly ever 
do this when the animal is hit in the 
rear part. I think this is because the 
front parts are steering the remainder 
of the body and when these are thrown 
out of line the poise and balance of the 
bounding animal is destroyed. When the 
rear section of the speeding game is hit 
a powerful blow it fails to knock it 
down for the fact that this section of 
the animal is more the propeller or place 
where the power for the leaping stride 
is applied, while the front quarters con- 
stitute the rudder. 
T HERE are more considerations en- 
tering into the feat of making a 
successful shot at running game than 
those involved in solving a complex 
problem in calculus. Most important of 
all the things that will help bring a kill- 
ing result I place the correct rifle for 
identify you. 
