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gives higher velocity with light 
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The Indians of To-day. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Demi-quarto, 185 pages, 
buckram. Price, $5.00. 
It describes the old-time Indian and the Indian of to¬ 
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living with those of the present. It contains over fifty 
full-page portraits of living Indians from photographs. 
Contents: The North American Indians. Indian 
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The Number of Pellets Required for 
the Effective Killing of Game. 
A very interesting discussion has been carried on at 
disjointed intervals in the columns of the Field as to 
the number of pellets of shot necessary for the effective 
killing of game; that is, of course, excluding the fluky 
shot, where one pellet striking a vital spot may oc¬ 
casionally kill its victim. The question of range may be 
MR. W. B. TEGETMEIER'S DIAGRAM. 
A. The brain. 
B. The neck. 
C. Large blood-vessels of neck. 
D. The chest. 
E. The legs. 
F. The humerus. 
G. The secondary flight feathers. 
H. The primary flight feathers. 
excluded by assuming that each pellet has sufficient 
force to penetrate a reasonable depth of feathers and 
flesh to enable it to reach the vital spots that may lie 
under them; no doubt at the longer ranges the shot 
pellets are very rapidly exhausted of their energy if they 
are required to make a preliminary incision of a bird’s 
protective armor. 
In an extremely instructive article contributed to the 
Field of Dec. 9, 1905, Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier showed in 
a diagrammatic form some of the vital spots-in the body of 
a bird, and also the various points at which a bird might 
be wounded with reference to the possibility of re¬ 
trieving it: 
He laid down, as might be expected, that the head 
DIAGRAM I. 
and neck contained the most immediately vital and ex¬ 
posed organs; that the effect of body wounds depended 
very much on the force and direction of the pellets; 
that leg wounds would, of course, not impede the flight 
of the bird; and that wing shots are only effective if 
they break one of the bones of the wing. In the Field 
of Oct. 19, 1907, and other issues appeared a series of 
diagrams showing a flight of six partridges passing 
through patterns of shot at different ranges. Now, if 
these diagrams are closely examined it will be seen that 
those birds near the center of the pattern, struck, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Tegetmeier’s diagram, in vital places, have 
received in the first diagram from four to six pellets 
each, while in the second diagram of the birds that are 
struck in vital spots one has received considerably more 
than five pellets, and another has received six pellets; 
suggesting that at least five pellets are required to strike 
a bird to insure its being promptly brought to bag. 
This contention has been challenged on various, oc¬ 
casions, and the statement has been made that a shooter 
may rely on clean killing of birds when hit with a 
smaller number of pellets than five, and that this was 
especially the case if a larger-sized shot were used; but 
it must be remembered that, even if this was correct, 
the larger-sized pellet would be heavier, thereby causing 
more shock, and at the same time would be more pene¬ 
trating. But this seems to be beside the question, which 
is how many pellets are necessary for the clean killing of 
a gamebird, given fair penetration and allowing for the 
occasional chance pellet that may reach a vital spot? 
From the many birds examined at this office it would 
appear that, whatever the minimum necessary pellets 
