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Show Hunting with Bow and Arrow. A new class of sportsmen has beea growing up within the last few years, whose distinguishing characteristics is based upon the line followed by thi late Maurice Thompson, sportsman and author. Thompson disdained to use the shotgun on small game, preferring to match skill against cunning. He made it a practice not to kill game until un-til he was close enough to watch and study it. So he took a long bow and went into the woods after quail and grouse. He hunted rabbits in the same manner, and was very successful. When he went after quail he stole upon the flock in its haunts and picked off the birds with arrows that made no noise and did not frlghtej those that remained. In this way he grew to know the haunts and habits of his quarry as the shotgun hunter never does. Rabbits he stalked in a similar manner. The point to be won was to see the rabbit in the . little "form" where it spends the day, in surroundings surround-ings that render it well-nigh invisible and shoot it before it could run away. For squirrels he took an ancient flintlock flint-lock rifle. Most hunters are not handicapping han-dicapping themselves to this extent, but take instead of bow or flintlock a small rifle with which the head may be snipped off a quail or grouse and a tiny puncture made in a rabbit's skull. |