| Show FIELD ETIQUETTE BY HARRY KEEFE Local Sportsmans Second In Installment Installment Installment of Things You Should ShO ld Not Do Dot f ry t efe gave his first t install H Hf f Q advice alvice to sportsmen last Sun f day dllY ay ho lie presents rules to 4 i e hunters It if they wish to get th f 4 I IBY I t BY HARRY KEEFE Carry your loaded gun lightly and gracefully resting in the elbow tho the bar barrels barreI barreIn reIn reI a in a tt parallel l line Une with the surface of the ground Keep them pointed at your companion comp nIon If it your gun is cocked as Is frequently the style st l of some very good sportsmen who are authorities on this point It will add materially to the potency of the act Ct If your companion com silently shifts his position to the opposite opposite opposite site side immediately ly shift your gun like likewise likewise wise If It he lie suggests that the th gun causes him disquietude or Is 11 offensively threat threatening threatening threatening ening beg his pardon at the same time assume a mildly injured and strained air assure him that you are noted for hand hands ling hug s a sun ln 10 with unceasing unc care and watchfulness ness nevertheless change the po f of ot the gUn cun to oblige himin two 4 minutes have It back in its usual place pla e bearing on your friend with the same sama unceasing care and watchfulness In walking through cover carry your gun on your our shoulder and lot tho the muzzle point squarely in your our friends face when he is walking behind you When hen hunting with an experienced sportsman if It you OU happen to see his dog pointing be sure sUr to call his attention to the fact If ha he appears indifferent re ra repeat repeat peat pent it Jl two or three times eventually he hema may ma understand you ou This Is particularly apropos It If you are out with a professional trainer The chances are arc a thou thousand thousand sand to one that he saw the point be bo lure fore you did probably saw the first signs algne the doc cog made of the tho recognition roc of the scent but you will save yourself yours lf from any an suspicion of oC dullness The Th proper form to observe is to exclaim There he is Hes got ot em If rr t the birds bir ls are at all ili wild or the dog timid It is well to repeat this three or four times In louder tones 1 Explain All Misses Every Eyer time lime you ou miss a bird stop slop and alid explain In elaborate detail Just how ex cx excusably cUS bly you ou did It It will show that the miss nii although a n miss was a dable d ble mias nilsa and ami was made under such peculiar disadvantages of bad cartridges L ones one either with the shot left out or which dropped out or no wads between powder and shot or bad powder hang fire in the gun It having too long longo too straight or too crooked a n stock or is not balanced properly or the dog did not work Just right or the birds flushed Hushed In an unusual manner or your our friend stood In the wrong place on the tit whole the miss being so nicely executed under adverse circumstances that it un tin unquestionably unQuestionably questionably Is superior to a clean kill The sportsman cannot go wrong on any an anor or all of or these reasons as they are sanc sane sanctioned sanctioned by common usage in some Very cry good circles Your friend however will only consider that you OU made a plain un unornamented unornamented unornamented ornamented miss manly reason r ason of want of skill or error would concisely settle seUle the matter and your our friend would then hen t endorse your our reason Some very good sportsmen avoid the trouble of ex cx excuses c uses or reasons by rolling out a voluminous voluminous sonorous ed oath It usually usually ally all appears to be ie e In n tho the nature of ot so and probably is due to an excess of If Ie you ou are hunting from horseback and your jour our friends dog gets In front of you ou ride over oV r him If he happens to stop or reach over and give him a vigorous yh orous poke In the ribs with the muzzle of your oUr load loaded loaded loaded ed gun Loaded Gun in Wagon Carry your OUr gun loaded when on horse back or In a wagon It will conduce to your our friends peace of mind If It he re requests reQuests a quests you ou to unload take offense You 1 are ate perfectly competent to handle a load loaded loaded loaded ed gun even If the horses should run runaway runaway away ala and the wagon upset or break down Blow your Jour whistle and give loud or ders dora continually Keep the dog going to every likely place but the place he Is In Have Hac five or six places that you de desire desire sire Hire him to work in at the same time Claim with great of ot firmness all the birds you ou can If It your our friends dog points when you ou are a quarter of ot a mile mUe away call loudly to your our friend asking him to wait walt It will be a great pleasure to watt walt and make mako the pleasure divided a pleasure doubled When you walk up to your our friends dog which Is on a point or back never under any an circumstances fail fall to lo have your gun with your fingers on the triggers pointed downward toward the th dogs and as you walk around him keep ke p the gun bearing on him In a few known instances in which the gun discharged prematurely the t e dog was as killed outright hence there Is no doubt of ot the effectiveness of the method If It your OUr friend has one day only in which to hunt by bv all nil means try to make It entertaining Narrate some longwinded ed yarns arns of ot what you have done on some previous occasion Become intensely ab absorbed absorbed absorbed in the narration stop your friend o that he can listen better and let the dogs go on Your friend can cnn have no bet better bett ter t or or greater delight than In devoting of his time to listening to tc some pome gross gr apocryphal stories of Walk Wak Over Dog If It the dog Is on a point or back be sure to walk straight over him as you ou go for forward forward forward ward to flush the birds There is unlimited unlimIted space between a pointing dog and the tue horizon but there might be some sometime sometime sometime time lost If it you Jou deviate a finger breadth from a right line The writer has seen this done with great nicety many times much to the credit of the performers determination to kill It is particularly beneficial bene to puppies or timid dogs Point your gun at a companion at times It is a delicate friendly familiarity and the tue distress anxiety or fear produced will wm be Intensely amusing and refreshing Your friend may be killed d yet the possibility possIbility possibility should not be considered A friend who will not submit to some danger and distress for the diversion of a friend Is not worth having If fatal it Is only one more added to the list or of mean to or know It was loaded Many true sportsmen justly consider the trick as being one of the most loutish and that Is possible be the standing otherwise of at the perpetrator what it may The joker may know that the gun un is not loaded but the can cannot not possibly know It and the long IanI lists It i of ot homicides from similar facts do not I tend to allay aUay his fears No man can be I considered a true friend who will wan wantonly wantonly tonly terrify a friend or Jeopardise his life for tor amusement Shoot Friends Bevy Always shoot on your friends side of a abe bevy be It Is an unnecessary refinement to shoot on your own side although the practice Is much in vogue amongst skill skillful skillful ful sportsmen If It you are a poor shot but a good and consistent claimer of ot birds it will wUl add materially to your sue suc ce I Always ays make what should be a jointly pleasant hunt a keen competition or race J Banter your friend for a wager that you youcan youcan 1 Li can beat him shooting that your dog 3 can beat ils dog and that your gun will wUl shoot better than his tell him so 80 repeat repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly edly He will wUl love lovd you ou very dearly for tor many qualities hogs have JaVe not Make the field resonant with your lo 10 loquacity qU Nothing is pleasanter or more conducive to success than an eternally prattling companion particularly In cold rainy r or windy weather when the birds are extremely mely wild If you observe that your talk flushes the birds you then have havea a subject of discourse for tor half hilf an hour as assuring assuring assuring suring your companion that you know your talk did it and you regret it very much Take the first shot invariably and all of them If you can You will be b loved for acquisitive qualities common to certain domestic animals When you wish to go hunting borrow your friends gun and dog if you can Ask permission to go hunting with your friend for you can safely assume that one of two propositions propositions propositions is true namely Jf f your our friend de desired desired desired sired your company compan he would Invite you youIt if It you desire to go ask permission or cheerfully Invite yourself Now If you ou are wrong you are the next thing to be being beIng beIng ing right which Is a very good average avera e and a friend is I of no advantage If It you OU cannot use him Always Inspect your friends gun Open It and peer through the barrels then slam It together Cock it pull the th e trig triggers gem gers and snap it Open Op n It and slam It again To do this correctly according to honored usage It must be repeated six fim times s at least assuming a becoming look of ot Idiocy during the performance Thus you will show that you know all nIl about guns juns |
