British sport past and present . ^./^irrjOi. • TTTilWliW i PHEASANT SHOOTING Our readers will hardly require to be told that to kill fivehundred pheasants in the season admits of nothing like regularbattue shooting, at which nearly four times that number havebeen ere now killed in a day. But they will give a man ten ora dozen days of good sport, and, combined with running game,will afford as much shooting as a reasonable man can party of four guns, killing their thirty brace of pheasants,forty or fifty couple of rabbits, half as many hares, and twoor three woodcocks, will have had
British sport past and present . ^./^irrjOi. • TTTilWliW i PHEASANT SHOOTING Our readers will hardly require to be told that to kill fivehundred pheasants in the season admits of nothing like regularbattue shooting, at which nearly four times that number havebeen ere now killed in a day. But they will give a man ten ora dozen days of good sport, and, combined with running game,will afford as much shooting as a reasonable man can party of four guns, killing their thirty brace of pheasants,forty or fifty couple of rabbits, half as many hares, and twoor three woodcocks, will have had more than fifty shots they began at eleven and left off at four, deducting an hourfor luncheon, they will have fired thirteen shots an hour, ormore than one every five minutes ; so that something verymuch less than this would be fairly entitled to be called anexcellent days sport. Twenty brace of pheasants, with haresand rabbits in proportion, is, considering the shortness of awinters day, ample for any four men who
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