. Ten years of game-keeping . Straight and high over-head. Shooting from the middle ofa low hedge. WOOD-PIGEONS AND WILD-FOWL 151 they so soon become fly-blown ; and to take alsoadvantage of each lull in the shooting to gather thefallen, for the same reason. I remember a farmerand a friend he took with him bagging a hundredand six pigeons in two hours, but all of them wereshot while perched in an ash-tree at a range ofabout twenty-five yards. There was a single ash-tree in the hedge at each end of a large field of rye,which was considerably forwarder than any othercorn in the district. One oft
. Ten years of game-keeping . Straight and high over-head. Shooting from the middle ofa low hedge. WOOD-PIGEONS AND WILD-FOWL 151 they so soon become fly-blown ; and to take alsoadvantage of each lull in the shooting to gather thefallen, for the same reason. I remember a farmerand a friend he took with him bagging a hundredand six pigeons in two hours, but all of them wereshot while perched in an ash-tree at a range ofabout twenty-five yards. There was a single ash-tree in the hedge at each end of a large field of rye,which was considerably forwarder than any othercorn in the district. One often may get very fair shooting whichresults in all the birds falling into standing if the farmer does not object to his corn beingtrampled down to search for them, you will be luckyto find half the pigeons you get down. The onlything is to refrain from trying to score a right andleft, and go straight for each bird as it falls. Ratherthan leave birds to rot, it is better to take up aposition less favourable. Sometimes
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