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may be, the number five is decidedly under the mark 
viewed as an average. For the purpose of illustrating 
this here is another diagram of a cock pheasant shot at 
thirty to thirty-five yards, which was skinned, and an 
accurate note was made of each wound, with its result; 
and while admitting the necessity of not attaching too 
much importance to a single specimen, it may be pointed 
out that this particular bird was selected from about 
DIAGRAM II. 
thirty as' having been cleanly killed at a fair sporting 
distance: 
(n) There were three pellet wounds in the left thigh, 
none of which would have done the bird much harm, 
and certainly would not have brought him to the ground. 
( b ) One pellet had bruised the left breast, but had not 
penetrated the flesh. 
(r) Two pellets had penetrated the right breast side by 
side, fracturing and passing through the breastbone and 
penetrating to the heart, causing a wound of that organ 
and filling the body cavity with blood; this wound would 
naturally have eventually caused death, but if the bird 
had been going with the wind it might and probably 
would have carried on for a short distance. 
(rf) One pellet in the side of the neck close to the- 
base of the skull; this had passed through the spinal 
cord, and had caused the bird suddenly to collapse and 
fall to the ground. 
Now this bird received seven pellets, three of which 
struck him in what were vital places, yet if it had 
not been for pellet ( d ) he might have reached thick 
cover and required some hunting for. This independent 
DIAGRAM OF A SHOT BIRD. 
piece of evidence goes to confirm the theory that to 
insure clean and effective killing of game five pellets are 
at least the minimum number required; in fact, many 
sportsmen say that this number is too few, and that at 
least seven are necessary. 
Many birds are, of course, bagged without being 
vitally wounded. For instance, one wing and one leg 
broken. prevent locomotion, and so under these cir¬ 
cumstances the bird is as easily bagged as if it had been 
vitally struck. Again, the breaking of a wing coupled 
\vith a body hit, not vital, but causing a sufficiency of 
shock, will allow of the bird being gathered. But the 
point at issue is the total number of hits or pellets 
necessary to turn the odds in the shooter’s favor, so 
avoiding the always regrettable experience of seeing a 
bird hard hit get away, and also preventing unnecessary 
suffering, which all true sportsmen wish to minimize in 
every way they possibly can. Perhaps in the course of 
the coming shooting season sportsmen may be interested 
enough to forward to this office specimens of birds 
which are clean killed at full sporting ranges under 
conditions of special interest. Such birds should be 
immediately identified by cutting off one or more claws 
trom the right foot.—H. Hammond Smith, in Field 
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