. Complete wildfowler . able to kill shanks, etc. with the firstbarrel, and should a duck be sprung at any moment at adistance he may be able to pull it down with the No. 4. Atclose quarters, say up to 25 yards. No. 7 would be quiteeffective on a mallard, and ten yards further on a teal. Forsnipe and small waders Nos. 9 or 10 will have to be used ifgood results are desired, but it is quite within reason to saythat, with a close-shooting gun, snipe may readily be flooredwith No. 7 shot, provided long shots are avoided. For geese afew No. 2 cartridges will suffice, but, remember, a small-borelik
. Complete wildfowler . able to kill shanks, etc. with the firstbarrel, and should a duck be sprung at any moment at adistance he may be able to pull it down with the No. 4. Atclose quarters, say up to 25 yards. No. 7 would be quiteeffective on a mallard, and ten yards further on a teal. Forsnipe and small waders Nos. 9 or 10 will have to be used ifgood results are desired, but it is quite within reason to saythat, with a close-shooting gun, snipe may readily be flooredwith No. 7 shot, provided long shots are avoided. For geese afew No. 2 cartridges will suffice, but, remember, a small-borelike a 12 requires these tough birds to be within 35 yards tokill with any degree of certainty. Perhaps no class of sportinvolves the readiness to hand of cartridges filled with so manydifferent sizes of shot as does marsh-shooting, and here it isthat a point is to carefully observed. Keep each least-usedsize in a separate pocket, and those mostly used—say Nos. 4and 7—in the cartridge-bag. This will prevent your firing. ^ MOVEMENTS OF SHORE-BIRDS 109 snipe shot at a goose in a moment of excitement—a thingwhich has often been done. For years I have practised carry-ing one large-shot cartridge in my waistcoat pocket. Here itcan readily be laid hold of without the lengthy operation ofsearching through the cartridge-bag, and a long shot can betaken or a large bird floored just in the nick of time. CHAPTER XI MIGRATION OF SHORE-BIRDS AND WILDFOWL Some notes relative to the dates on which numbers of ourshore-birds and wildfowl visit our shores from their breedinghomes and northern haunts will be useful in such a book asthis. Several species of shore-birds and wildfowl breed in ourislands, but their numbers (even if all stayed the year round)are ver} small compared with those which reach us from thenorth. What are known as residential birds, such as the red-shank, curlew, green plover, golden plover, dunlin, mallard,and teal, by the end of July begin to flock on the coast, eitherfr
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