Shooting, Moor and Marsh, 4th ed. (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1893)
Walsingham, Lord, Gallwey, Ralph Payne Sir, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 68
und or in turning in the air, they afford strong temptation to the youthful sportsman to indulge in a family shot. To fire a small bore without any special aim into the midst of a number of birds is always reprehensible and unsportsmanlike ; but in the case of ptarmigan a skilled shot, when… … direct their flight parallel with the hillside a covey very fre- -quently presents the appearance of three or four distinct groups or pairs of birds, and if the individuals of any one of these groups have their necks and heads clos2 together, there is an instant when they can be safely killed at…
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