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SEASON OF THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN. 
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of the birds, which flush either to the right or to 
the left, and sometimes behind the sportsman 
who has lost an opportunity to shoot. For this 
reason experienced men approach the pointing 
dog from in front, so that he can see the ground 
beaten out in front of him, meanwhile giving 
his attention to locating the scent, which comes 
to him with all the vagaries of the shifting cur¬ 
rents of the light prairie air. 
Prairie chickens are sometimes killed with clods 
of earth, rocks, buggy whips and in former days 
the ten pound ten gauge was the popular weapon 
that belched forth one ounce and one-half of 
number six shot, propelled by six drams of good 
old black powder, but in these days of smokeless 
powder, scientific gun building,_ and refined 
sportsmanship, the ideal weapon for the prairie 
chicken is the twenty gauge, weighing not over six 
pounds, with half choked barrels twenty-eight or 
thirty inches long loaded with % of an ounce of 
No. 7 shot. Some men use a heavier gun and 
longer barrels, but in doing so they invade the 
province of larger weapons. 
Don’t make the mistake of overloading your 
gun. The standard 20 gauge load of from % 
to % of an ounce of shot and a corresponding 
charge of powder will give you far better results 
day in and day out than any of the freak loads. 
American gun makers have made remarkable 
progress in developing the possibilities of the 
twenty gauge, and with the perfection attained 
by ammunition makers, they are now powerful 
enough for all upland shooting, and the man who 
has once seen a prairie chicken collapse at the 
pressure of the trigger, as he sights over the slim 
graceful tubes of the twenty gauge, will find 
that the twelve has lost its charm. 
In the course of a prairie chicken shoot the 
gunner will be called upon to negotiate as many 
different kinds of shots as will be met on the 
duck marsh. There will be some birds that 
flush from under foot and go straight away only 
a few feet above the prairie. Others will flush 
at twenty yards and go straight up in the air and 
then beat it for the horizon line, while occasional 
birds, flushed by your dogs or companions, come 
sailing along and afford full quartering shots. 
The principal thing to remember is that the 
prairie chicken is a large bird and that its flight 
is very much faster than it appears to be. Usually 
it flushes from a distance of fifteen to twenty 
yards, and it is apparent that you will have to be 
quick with your first barrel and always ready to 
follow with the second. The birds that spring 
straight into the air, try and catch at the top of 
their flight, and be ready with the second barrel 
in case you miss. There is little danger of lead¬ 
ing the cross shots too liberally and it is well to 
see considerable daylight below birds which are 
flying straight away above the level of the 
shooter’s eye. 
REGULARITY IMPORTANT. 
Time and regularity are important matters 
to the trapshooter. In a squad of trained shots 
it becomes almost a matter of rhythm, the move¬ 
ments of each man fitting in with the “swing” 
of the others, and seldom does anything inter¬ 
fere, save perhaps a bird broken at the trap. 
There is no hesitation on the part of the good 
shot when the bird is thrown. With instant de¬ 
cisive action he takes the proper lead and fires. 
It may be that he realizes at the instant of shoot¬ 
ing that it is a “miss,” but still he shoots, for he 
knows that any attempt to get a second aim 
would be bad for the future. He knows the 
value of regularity-. 
THE PIPING OF THE CLANS 
Up where, till within a very few years, the Lon¬ 
don or New York tailored man rubbed elbows 
with the artistically attired woods runner of the 
seventeenth century, trapshooting blossoms as the 
rose. The record sheets of a registered tournament 
of the Northern Club Gun Club of Edmonton, 
Canada has recently come to hand. The program 
called for 240 targets in 20 target events. Seven¬ 
ty-Eve contestants took part in this stiff program. 
The high score, 235x240 with its eight straight 
Westley Richards English Guns 
Westley Richards guns are made by hand throughout, each gun 
represents an individuality of its own, the result of trained craftsmanship. 
They are fitted with simplified one-trigger mechanism, detachable locks 
and the strongest of breech construction. 
The CHICAGO PRELIMINARY HANDICAP Was WON By Mr. R. H. MORSE With His 
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