. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . The all-important agent, however, of such as havethe good fortune to take their pleasure among theScottish wilds in pursuit of the good dun-deer, is therifle. This description of fowling-piece, if it may beso called, or more properly, sportmg-piece, has, likeeverything in gunnery, undergone great improvementwithin the last twenty years. It is now frequentlytwo-grooved ; though it has been urged against thisplan,
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . The all-important agent, however, of such as havethe good fortune to take their pleasure among theScottish wilds in pursuit of the good dun-deer, is therifle. This description of fowling-piece, if it may beso called, or more properly, sportmg-piece, has, likeeverything in gunnery, undergone great improvementwithin the last twenty years. It is now frequentlytwo-grooved ; though it has been urged against thisplan, that the extreme rotatory impulse given to aball by a whole spiral turn in the grooves of thebarrel, occasions a sacrifice of velocity, and conse-quently of range. The ball, by this mode of grooving,is made to revolve two or three times as often as,imder the percussion principle, is found to be quitesufficient for projecting the plain spherical ball with DEER-STALKING. accuracy and effect. With the common sort of rifle,the best size for red-deer shooting mil be fomid thatwhich carries an ounce ball. The length of the barrelshould be from two feet four to two feet six THE RED DEER. DEEK-STALKING. 9 The red deer [Cervus Eleijhas) is also known asthe hart and the stag. The height of the Britishstag is somewhere about four feet; and he arrives atgreat weight in some localities : in the Duke ofAthols quarters it is asserted that stags have beenshot which weighed upwards of thirty stone. AtWoburn, we are told, they have reached thirty-fourstone; while the predecessor of the present Glen-garry is said to have lulled one wliich, after the offalwas removed, weighed thirty-six stone. The stag royal is the chieftain of the was a tame one once kept at a shooting-lodgeof Lord Breadalbanes, wliich attacked all who camenear it, except the foresters, and at last was removedto the park, at Taymouth. He became so savage andexpert with his antlers, that Mr. Colquhomi wasinform
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