. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. to rise. It will be proper to observe in this place, that the shooter shouldnever strike either bush or hedge, or indeed anything, with hisfowling piece. Should he use the butt-end for this purpose, it ispossible the cock may be caught by some branch, and thus cause thepiece to be flitally discharged ; on the contrary, should a bush, & struck with the muzzle-end, the sportsman will be very hableto lose his shot. It is a good method to examine occasionally, inshooting in general, whether by any means the shot has moved.—Nor should sp
. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. to rise. It will be proper to observe in this place, that the shooter shouldnever strike either bush or hedge, or indeed anything, with hisfowling piece. Should he use the butt-end for this purpose, it ispossible the cock may be caught by some branch, and thus cause thepiece to be flitally discharged ; on the contrary, should a bush, & struck with the muzzle-end, the sportsman will be very hableto lose his shot. It is a good method to examine occasionally, inshooting in general, whether by any means the shot has moved.—Nor should sportsmen hold guns to each other to leap a ditch orclimb a bank, since the muzzle will be towards the friend or theowner. If the sportsman use a double gun, and has discharged one ofthe barrels, he should, after ramming the wadding on the powderin re-loading, put the ram-rod down the barrel that has not beendischarged, which will be less trouble than placing it under his arm,or otherwise ; he can then put in the shot; taking care not to let I Amimm. i e 1=1 !>^ .^ n! Town and Country Magazine. 295 any of the pellets fall into the loaded barrel (containing the ram-rod, or the latter will become fast); and on taking the ram-rodout of the other barrel, he can instantly ascertain whether the shothas moved. In discharging one barrel of a double gun, the shotin the other will frequently be loosened, if paper or any such pli-able wadding be used ; but with card I never knew this to happen,though I invariably examine with the ram-rod, in the methodabove described, in order to avoid every possible danger. As to the colour of the shooters dress, green is supposed tobe the best in the early part of the season, and when winter ap-proaches, a kind of light brown, resembUng stubble : this lastcolour will be found to answer throughout the season. But whatrequires more consideration is the formation of a shooters dress :— all tight ligatures, all weights injudiciously divided, and there-
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