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Title: Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931
Subjects: Grouse Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : H. Sotheran
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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rs, and not a single onewill sit on the neighbouring trees after they have heardthe sound, whilst those sitting on the ground alwaysfollow the line of flight adopted by the others when anyhave passed over them. When beating strips of wood on a hillside that are notvery broad, a gun walking along parallel with the beaters,about fifty yards ahead, will often get very pretty shooting,as a number of birds will generally break down-hill to apoint about this distance ahead, whether it is their inten-tion of breaking back or going ahead clear of the wood;but should there be birds sitting on the trees near the sum-mit of the hill, they nearly always go forward. I cannotremember ever having seen a Caper turn in front of the CAPERCAILLIK 3r> beaters on a liill-tnp and cliclv. hack, except when tlie enlof the cover lia<l been readied and there was no othermeans of escape open. (apcrcaillic when mortally wounded <an hardly be saidto t(Aver, after the manner of Grouse and Tartridi^es, but
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HENS ASSUMING THE ILUMAtJK OF THE MALE. seem to l)e suddenly arrested in their fli^^ht, and tumblehead over heels till they reach the ground with quiveringwings. The shock that Capercaillie will stand, particularh-the cocks, is very great, if not hit well forward. Whvustruck in the head or neck they drop at once, and are ipiiteas easily killed as a Partridge even up to forty and fiftv 36 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES yards ; but when the shot is placed too far back, unless thebird is so near that the pellets have not spread, they willcarry on for a great distance, and are in most cases lost,although apparently cut to ribands. Many sportsmenadvocate shot from No. 1 to No. 3 ; but in reality No. 4is quite large enough, and if properly placed is moreeffective than the larger sizes, as 12-bore guns, in nearlyevery case, cast very unsatisfactory and irregular patternswith these larger sizes of shot. There are times when a cock Caper fairly astonishes theshooter by the shock that he can

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