i 
these quiet little naps. When viewed 
from in front—and usually also from 
below—it is seldom possible to see any¬ 
thing at all but the end of his nose. 
And you can’t kill a chuck instantly 
unless you hit it back of the eye. 
This will also help to show why 
extreme accuracy is absolutely essen¬ 
tial to success and why the bullet must 
kill on the spot—a roll of a foot will 
usually put the chuck down the hole 
and out of sight and reach. And, un¬ 
like the squirrel, a crippled chuck will 
almost invariably stay in. 
The flatness of the trajectory de¬ 
scribed by the bullet is very important 
to prevent under and over shooting on 
long-range shots on open hillsides or 
across ravines. But I believe the wood¬ 
chuck cartridge should be chosen, first 
for its accuracy at 100 to 200 yards 
(the less it does at 1,000 yards the bet¬ 
ter) ; second, for its killing power on 
woodchucks (not for its theoretical 
energy or its killing power on deer, 
moose or other heavy game) ; third, 
for flatness of trajectory; fourth, for 
lack of recoil and report; fifth, for 
minor details like ease of loading, 
cleaning, cheapness, etc. 
The question of report is rather im¬ 
portant in some places, because a cer¬ 
tain percentage of people are always 
disturbed when they hear loud rifle 
fire. This is especially so if they im¬ 
agine that it may be made by one of 
those awful army rifles that they are 
convinced always shoot a steel-jacketed 
bullet at least five miles and will kill 
every calf or horse in the township. 
What actually happens is that a stray 
bullet shot into earth—except across a 
practically level field—will tear a hole 
that is smaller than the face of an 
Ingersoll and will usually penetrate 
less than six inches of ground. In 
fact, it is usually very difficult to find 
your bullet print in grass or sod, if 
you miss and want to check up on the 
elevation of your telescope. 
In some places, therefore, it is more 
expedient to use a .22 or a .25-20, than 
a .250-3000, a .25 Neidner or a .30 
Springfield, because the use of the 
heavy rifle makes the shooter entirely 
too “audible.” 
With clover hay selling about $30.00 
a ton, the woodchuck shooter is usually 
a welcome visitor on the farm, far 
more welcome than the same individual 
may be as a quail or rabbit hunter 
the following fall, but it is entirely 
possible to “shoot out” a welcome. 
The camera has its place on a wood¬ 
chuck hunt, if you are not too particu¬ 
lar about killing the maximum number 
of chucks on that particular day and 
would like to have something to re¬ 
member the hunt by in the years that [ 
come afterward. But shooting chucks j 
with a camera is a different proposi- J 
tion from shooting them with a rifle. 
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