. Big game shooting [microform]. Big game hunting; Hunting; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse. ^1^ ON BIG GAJfE SHOOTING GENERALLY 17 stag was hit after all (far back, perhaps), and you may get him, although the shot hardly deserved such a prize. In any case it is your duty as an honest sportsman to do your utir )st to find out whether you have wounded a beast, and, if so, to do all in your power to secure him and put an end to his pain, rather than leave him to take a better chance which may offer. The greater oart of what has been written so far applies either to shooting big game generally or t
. Big game shooting [microform]. Big game hunting; Hunting; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse. ^1^ ON BIG GAJfE SHOOTING GENERALLY 17 stag was hit after all (far back, perhaps), and you may get him, although the shot hardly deserved such a prize. In any case it is your duty as an honest sportsman to do your utir )st to find out whether you have wounded a beast, and, if so, to do all in your power to secure him and put an end to his pain, rather than leave him to take a better chance which may offer. The greater oart of what has been written so far applies either to shooting big game generally or to stalk- ing : a word or two may well be devoted to still hunting—a form of the chase much practised in America and other well-wooded countries. Still Hunting Almost every fresh form of sport brings a fresh set of muscles, a hitherto little used sense or mental quality, into play, so that an all-round sportsman should be that very exceptional animal, a man in the full possession of all his faculties. On the mountains a man depends upon his feet and upon his eyes ; in the woods he has to place at least as much reliance upon his ears as upon his eyes ; whilst his feet in still hunting are to the beginner the very curse and bane of his existence. Except in wet weather or to a redskin, still hunting is an impossibility in any true sense of the term. When for weeks in Colorado there has not fallen one drop of rain, when sun and wind have parched the whole face of Nature, every twig and every fallen leaf upon the forest iloor become absolutely. Interlaced antlers. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918; Baker, Samuel White, 1821-1893. London : Longmans, Green
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