. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. SHAEP-TAILED GROUSE, ETC. 195 SO that in winter it is almost impossible to get a shot at him. The flesh, too, has a piny flavor, and is very bit- ter. Owing to the shyness of the bird, and to its method of flight, the hunter at this season should load as though his campaign were to be for ducks, and should never use shot finer than No. 6, With the memntain goat, the ptarmigan is one of the trophies of those sportsmen
. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. SHAEP-TAILED GROUSE, ETC. 195 SO that in winter it is almost impossible to get a shot at him. The flesh, too, has a piny flavor, and is very bit- ter. Owing to the shyness of the bird, and to its method of flight, the hunter at this season should load as though his campaign were to be for ducks, and should never use shot finer than No. 6, With the memntain goat, the ptarmigan is one of the trophies of those sportsmen who isolate themselves from even camp-fire comforts, and who are willing alone to climb the lofty peaks and cross the barren ridges that form the mighty continental divide; and he who has tilled his bag with ptarmigans has, in this country, at. least, nothing in the bird line left to satisfy Ms ambitious 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 Leffingwell, William Bruce, ed. Chicago, Rand, McNally
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