Cautions to Young Sportsmen

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James Robson, J. Smelton, printer, 1801 - Shooting

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Page 10 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Page 33 - Field Sports" gives the following excellent advice : — " In shooting with a stranger, who perhaps keeps his gun cocked, and muzzles usually pointed to the left, plead for the right hand station, and urge that you cannot hit a bird flying to the left : with a gamekeeper take the right hand without ceremony." In an open country give me the pointer ; in a covert one the setter would best answer my views ; and were I confined to one class, I should select the latter as being generally the most useful...
Page 8 - ... Method of dating dead Game. Recommended in Sir Thomas Frankland's " Cautions to Young Sportsmen," ed. 2, page 8. " The following is a simple method of dating the day on which birds were killed. Let the six fore toes represent the six shooting days of the week. The left toe of the left foot answering for Monday, count from thence to the right toe of the right foot, which is to pass for Saturday. Let any portion of that toe which corresponds to the day on which the bird was killed, be cut off....
Page 8 - If a part of one or more toes has been shot oft', cut that which is to register the day still shorter. I am aware that a whole foot may be carried away ; but in general the practice will answer. Perhaps in a well regulated larder, what I propose may be idle ; but it is particularly useful in the case of game sent weekly from distant manors.
Page 17 - Their game is so scarce,' says Hawker, ' that I literally never saw a partridge the whole day, and only one hare at a distance. . . . My day ended as usual with finding nothing the whole day but one small covey of birds. I killed two partridges, which were considered a 'bonne chatse.
Page 17 - Chasse, &c.," now before me, which registers the feats of a party from Vienna in the Bohemian territories, AI). 1753. It contains columns specifying 20 days, beginning 29th August ; names of the 23 sportsmen and women ; their shots each day ; with the number and kinds of game killed (beginning Stags, Roebucks, Boars, Foxes, &c.). The...
Page 17 - ... hours.' * Young, too, instances ' 4 or 5 brace of hares and 20 brace of partridges' as a poor day at Liancourt. At Longparish, on the other hand, 20 brace was the recognized raison d'etre of the ' butcher's halloo ' ; while, as to France, * Frankland adds a note, which is worth quoting: — 'But ns a record of slaughtered game, I shall mention the engraved " Table d'une Chasse, &c.," now before me, which registers the feats of a party from Vienna in the Bohemian territories, AI).
Page 18 - On the day before one of the annual parties at Clumber broke up, two sets went out, each consisting of three persons, and a bet was laid which should kill most game. It was computed that, on an average, each man of the six got sixty shots : total, 360.
Page 38 - Flask instantly exploded ! A large piece of copper struck the right eye, and injured the bone above, so that it...
Page 39 - ... opinion, be to set fire to the charge of powder by shooting (through a small opening) the flame of a smaller charge into the midst of it.

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