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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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theground be carefully located, but even inthese sections excellent unpreserved ter-ritory can be found and the carefulstocking and protection of the birds on 148 IN SOUTHERN QUAIL FIELDS 149 the preserves serves to keep up the out-side supply by leakage. In choosing a locality distance is notthe first point for consideration, butrather the supply of birds, the kind ofcover, the amount of open shooting, andthe State hunting regulations as to non-residents. These can all be ascertainedby a small amount of correspondencewhich will more than pay for the slighttrouble; if it is possible to get into corn- it takes to kill him and usually prefers afat rabbit to a half dozen of Bob White.There are exceptions to this rule, butthey are few, and this very fact makes itpossible for the visiting gunner to obtainpermission to shoot with comparativeease. In the smaller towns, near which thebest shooting is to be had, accommo-dations usually consist of one hotelwhere neither food nor bed are apt to
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STARTING FOR THE DAY S SPORT WITH THE SOUTHERN QUAIL. munication with some intelligent localhunter, very accurate information canbe had. The poorer class of natives and eventhe more prosperous farmers throughoutthe entire region are not reliable assources of information on quail hunting.Lots of birds reported by one of thesemay mean but one or two bevies. Thereason is that they are not to any greatextent quail hunters themselves. Bar-ring the market hunters, now fast passinginto oblivion under better game legisla-tion, the farmer does not consider thequail equal in value to the ammunition be of the best. Accommodation can behad easily in farmhouses, and barring adisposition on the part of the boys of anoccasional family to take part in thehunt and to bang away with blackpowder at every rabbit in a manner dis-concerting to the sportsman and thesportsmans dog, such a place is to bepreferred. Sometimes a tent can be used to ad-vantage, and frequently at this season ofthe year there are v

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