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bored right barrel improved cylinder or 
full cylinder, and left barrel modified 
choke. The straighter a gun is (pro- 
vided you can shoot it with ease) the 
better you will perform on quail. This 
rule does not always work, however. 
Quail are hustlers in flight and the 
person who can align properly on them 
|rapidly, is sure to develop into an ex- 
cellent shot. 
W ITH magazine guns an improved 
cylinder or modified choke seems 
to fill the wants of most sportsmen. 
Guns with 26 or 28-inch barrels are 
the most popular. They line up more 
quickly on close shooting. Naturally 
a man who has shot long with 30 or 
32-inch barrels, has to become accus- 
tomed to the short ones, and at first 
will find himself going below his stand- 
ard. The same will happen when he 
changes abruptly to light-weight guns, 
whether 12-gauge or smaller. On ac- 
count of lightness, their shooting pow- 
ers and ease of handling have made 
many converts for small bore guns, 
Every sportsman is so familiar with 
their shooting, nothing further need be 
said about them. 
Without perfect confidence in a gun 
—fit, balance and pattern—the average 
quail hunter will not shoot well. And 
the next and greatest essential is con- 
fidence in himself. If the hunter can 
coax himself into a state of belief that 
every shot presented can be executed 
easily — no matter how difficult — 
whether in thickets, dense timber, 
scrub pine or tall weeds, as well as 
right or left crossing birds, or in- 
comers, he cannot help shooting well. 
After all, shooting swift-flying birds 
is nothing more than perfect coordina- 
tion of eye, ear and muscles. The best 
quail shots shoot as much by sound as 
by sight. The noisy whirr of the bird 
ultimately develops the faculty of in- 
stinctively lining the gun on it before 
sighting. Then covering the bird is 
nothing more than an automatic act. 
After this necessarily follows firm 
pressure of the trigger at the proper 
moment without hitch or jerk. 
Long ago the writer learned that the 
average poor shot, who reads too much 
on the subject of shooting, is inclined 
to go backward instead of progressing. 
He gets to thinking too much about 
theories and advice and it interferes 
seriously with chances of correcting 
faults. It is on his mind too much, 
and he finds himself at the moment of 
shooting cramped from advice instead 
of having gained poise. 
During my thirty years of quail 
shooting, almost daily in the open 
Tt will identify you. 
season, I have observed that no two 
men shoot alike, and I have again 
thought it well to report my conclusion 
that if a man can arrive simply at the 
psychological state of believing he can 
hit every bird that gets up, though 
he may not sight down a gun barrel, 
he will gradually shoot well because 
his nerves and fingers will behave in 
spite of poor success at the start. 
It is my sincere belief that all the 
advice I ever read on shooting was 
good. But the average man who 
shoots poorly is too much like the city 
man who starts farming. He does not 
have the poise and hardly begins to put 
into execution one régime, when the 
most trivial advice from another source 
will change his entire activities toward — 
the new hope, no matter how unwar- 
ranted. 
Perhaps my own experience will © 
assist some novice or an old-timer who - 
never has mastered quail shooting and ~ 
help him in both open and cover work. — 
But remember, the writer does not con- 
sider it infallible, though it has been 
of great assistance getting him going 
right, when some of his most persistent 
missing streaks were in evidence. Try 
to overcome all nervousness when go- 
ing up to pointing dogs. Don’t look at 
them, nor on the ground and speculate 
where the birds might be, nor try to 
anticipate where they are going to get 
up and in which direction they will 
fly. Look up at the sky, and, without 
tremulousness, walk right into the 
birds and flush. Don’t look for a bird, 
that is, select one before aiming at it. 
Instead, let sound direct you, then find 
the bird along the barrel and press as 
you get on him. This will cure ner- 
vousness and encourage shooting poise. 
If any other hints are acceptable, I 
might suggest holding high on all birds 
in almost every sort of flight. They 
are always rising slightly, barring the 
few occasions when they dip under 
cover, pitch out of a tree, or fly down- 
hill. 
Lots of my shooting has been done 
amid second growth bull pines, post- 
oak and similar cover of the very 
densest kind. Ultimately I found quail 
were killed easily there, if I caught 
them the instant they towered to the 
tops; in fact, the instant they had 
scaled the ladder of obstacles and 
started their burst of speed. Also, in 
timber, I tried to get them before they 
flew between trees, or when this was 
impossible, I picked openings. An old 
quail hunter advised me always to be 
up on my toes, eager, calm, and ag- 
gressive. I found his advice excellent. 
At first a certain shot was difficult 
for me to execute: an incomer. Later 
I began getting on them instantly as 
they came toward me, moving the gun 
upward until the instant I lost sight 
of them. Then I pressed the trigger. 
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