measure was used entirely. The cus- 
tomary position was to sit on a plank 
or piece of canvas, the rifle resting in 
the crotch of the field rest, legs well 
braced with elbows on knees and butt 
cuddled to cheek. 
found best suited to our work or for 
average shots, as it was easy to make 
allowances for the longer ranges, forty, 
sixty, and eighty rods. The best tar- 
gets made (and some were very fine) 
were saved for record for the day. 
BOUT this time the call for din- 
ner sounded and it seemed that the 
Gang could eat nearly as well as it 
could shoot, which was saying a lot. 
This was the time that rifles and equip- 
ment had to be talked out, for half the 
fun of being a rifle crank is seeing 
what your brother cranks have been up 
to since the last round-up. 
After the dinner and the various 
courses for the afternoon hunt were de- 
cided upon, each pair of hunters would 
mount its trusty Concord and start out 
to put some of their “sighting-in” to 
practical use. It mattered not how 
many ’chucks a man shot that were able 
to hole up, the tip of the tail was all 
he was given credit for, and at the end 
of a busy season, many a barn or shed 
door would blossom out amazingly. 
When one of our Gang approached 
a farm, some of our sharp-eyed farmer 
friends would put his hat on his hoe 
handle and wave us a hearty welcome, 
for we could get some of those old he- 
ones that were too smart for Towser. 
’Chucks in the big tobacco and onion 
farms are a great nuisance and have 
been the cause of many a broken leg 
to horses and other stock. 
Those were good old days. The War 
put a stop to our activities for a time 
and advancing years have possibly pre- 
vented our hunts. The woodchucks are 
still doing business, and the young men 
nowadays are hunting other game, but 
no doubt occasionally raise a scalp. 
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