Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1911 — School for Amateur Huntsmen. [ARTICLE]

School for Amateur Huntsmen.

The skill acquired by the would-be huntsman in shooting at a still target is of no value to him when he is in the. field after wild game. The conditions are altogether different. The sudden appearance and disappearance of a rabbit or the startling rise of a partridge offers a new sensation to the man who has been used to shooting at a range target. One requires slow, deliberate and careful action, while the other necessitates instantaneous Judgment and action. In order to acquaint the amateur huntsman with thesis conditions a French gunsmith has established a huntsmen’s school of target practice, where the targets consist of various representations of small animals and birds, which have a variety'of movements closely imitating those of the’ living counterparts of the fields. All the possible contingencies of the field experiences are duplicated, so that after one has gone through the practice in this school he is quite well prepared for what he will encounter in a bona fide hunt.