January, 1923 
SHORT RANGE SHOT¬ 
GUN PATTERNS 
(Continued from page 17) 
A NOTHER equally difficult and very 
similar field shooting problem is 
how to deal with a flock of quail that 
have been chased into a dense growth 
of small pine trees, chestnut or oak 
scrub, or a 30-foot wide gulley that con¬ 
tains a 10-foot stand of briars, sumac, 
elderberries and locusts. With a full 
choke gun and no bird dog such a situa¬ 
tion is well night hopeless. 
A patient hunter armed with an open- 
bored gun, who will take his time and 
call enough after a half hour or so, to 
get the general location of the covey, 
can quite often kill half a dozen or more 
birds without seriously mangling any of 
them. All he needs to do is to walk 
slowly along inside one edge and put a 
10 to 18 inch pattern on the singles that 
dodge out five to fifteen yards ahead of 
him. 
If the ravine flanks a cornfield it is 
fairly certain to yield from one to three 
or four rabbits in addition to the quail. 
This is a good average day’s shooting 
for anyone. 
Another advantage of the more open- 
bored gun is that you can kill a winged 
quail or grouse or a broken-down rabbit, 
in brush, before it runs out of sight and 
without blowing it to pieces. Did you 
ever try this with a full choke? If so, 
a week or so afterwards the farmer 
came along, and, noticing feathers all 
over ten feet of leaves, immediately 
blamed you for potting a whole covey of 
quail on the ground and most likely 
posted up $2.00 worth of trespass no¬ 
tices where they will add nothing to 
your future sport. 
I have known this to happen in a 
number of cases. There are few things 
that will so embitter the average farmer 
as for him to find the results of a case 
or two of this kind—particularly if he 
possesses but a very casual knowledge 
of shooting and fails to observe the area 
covered by the charge. 
Another mean problem to handle is 
the grown up fence row—especially if 
the poison ivy, briars and brush is six to 
twelve feet high. It is almost certain 
that nearly everything that is flushed 
from it by a lone hunter will go out on 
the side opposite the one he is on, and 
all shooting, therefore, will be quick 
snap shots across the top of the fence, 
or between the wires or rails, at five to 
ten yards. Here again the open-bored 
gun is far more effective. 
For years we have been accustomed to 
allowing the full choke gun a five to ten 
yard advantage in killing range over the 
modified or improved-cylinder bore. At 
this is true, but at short 
31 
long 
range 
range the exact opposite is true. The 
reason is that the 15-yard pattern of the 
choke is almost exactly the same size as 
the 10-yard pattern of the improved 
. cylinder. The 20-yard pattern of the 
choke is a trifle closer than the 15-yard 
pattern of the open gun. Even the 5- 
. yard opep pattern is almost as wide as 
the 10-yard choke pattern. The result 
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