. Guns and gunning. ^s;^ ^!^^#^ ^^. Care should be taken to leave a little piece ofthe shell uncut, as it will keep the shot end of theshell from sliding down the barrel prematurely andbursting the gun. The first time I tried a splitshell I practiced on a target nailed to a tree, until Ifound where to cut the shell to keep it from break-ing before it hit the mark. A few days afterwardI was duck-shooting, and a large flock of blue-billslit about 100 yards from my stool. They provedso attractive that several single birds that wouldhave come to my decoys swung off and joinedthem. At last I decide
. Guns and gunning. ^s;^ ^!^^#^ ^^. Care should be taken to leave a little piece ofthe shell uncut, as it will keep the shot end of theshell from sliding down the barrel prematurely andbursting the gun. The first time I tried a splitshell I practiced on a target nailed to a tree, until Ifound where to cut the shell to keep it from break-ing before it hit the mark. A few days afterwardI was duck-shooting, and a large flock of blue-billslit about 100 yards from my stool. They provedso attractive that several single birds that wouldhave come to my decoys swung off and joinedthem. At last I decided to scare them away, andthinking of the split-shell, I shot one at the flock,aiming high, and to my great surprise, I killed one. There is danger, however, in shooting a spKt-shell in anything but a moderately choked, or cylin-der bore barrel. Buckshot are very satisfactory forbig-game hunting; they carry well, and have a fairpenetration; but big game hunting with the shot-gun will never be popular except in a very bushycountry, a
Size: 972px × 2571px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbe, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecthunting
