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Title: Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America (microform)
Identifier: cihm_51503 (find matches)
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse
Publisher: New York : Stringer & Townsend
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FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. carries its shot veiy closely, and that loaded with Ely's \rdtrr.t cartridge, which are propelled full one-third farther and more strongly than loose shot—and to conclude, I was perfectly cool. and making allowance for the distance and velocity of the birds, fired both barrels. To my infinite disgust neither bird fell, and I need not add, to the infinite mirth of my companions, who accused me of missing two peifectly fair shots in the open. I replied, thereby greatl/ increasing their meniment, that I had not missed either bird, and that I had hit both in front of the wing, that is to say in the most vital part of the body; at which they laughed ineffably; but in the end it turned out as , usual that the last laugher has the best of it. For, to proceed, we marked the bulk of the bevy into the woodland I have mentioned, at least a quarter of a mile down wind, and followed them thither. But on aniving at the stone wall which bounded it on the nearer side, both my dogs stood almost simultaneously, and immediately roLneved the two birds I had shot at, perfectly dead, but both warm, and both bleeding from the bill. The shots I fired were the fii-st shots fired that morning, con- sequently they mus. have been my birds, and they had flown after being mortally struck, above a quarter of a mile, and would probably have flown considerably farther, skimming close to the ground, had not the stone wall, against which, I have no doubt, they struck, brought them up at last. From curiosity I kept the two birds apart, and on picking them found in one five, in the other seven. No. 8 shot in the neck and breast in front of the wing. The comparative size of No, 8 shot to a Quail, is abort that of grape shot to a man, and to judge of the tenacity of life and muscular motion, we must imagine a man running half a mile at the top of his pace with seven grape shot, as big as a mode- rate sized plum, through his neck and the cavity of the sternum —a thing palpably impossible ! We will now proceed to the consideration of the means of overcoming these difficulties, and the best method of carrviiur

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