Letters to Young Shooters First Series On the Choice And Use of a Gun
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If a fellow- shooter bangs off whilst you are allowing a bird to reach a fair distance, and afterwards remarks he imagined you did not see it, or inquires why you did not fire, reply, * Because I particularly dislike to see game spoilt by close shooting, and I was giving it a little law before bringing it down. ' SHOTS TOO FAB I now come to long shots ; these are more cruel than shots fired too close, and just as wasteful. Occa- sionally a very long shot is a successful one, and this encourages... the shooter to continue in his thoughtless- ness ; but he little knows, for every bird he kills at long distances, how many he wounds that fly away to die, or to waste into mere skeletons that are no use for food when they are found limping about, or ix. SHOTS TOO FAR 113 perhaps, instead of being found, are worried by some prowling cat or fox. Even when very long shots seem successful, it is frequently the case that the game is not gathered; for, though the spectators on such occasions may exclaim, * What a splendid shot it was !
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