Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — Trap and Field Shooting. [ARTICLE]

Trap and Field Shooting.

A man may excel in trap-shooting and yet never become anything, of a field shot; it is not in him. There are men whom neither trap work nor field work can ever make crack field shots. We have frequently been out shooting with a friend, whose company we value most highly; he has a large, fund ofwoodcraft, is a close observer, and as full of ardor cs any sportsman we ever knew. He has followed the dogs day in and day out, tramped hundreds bf

miles in pursuit of woodcock, grouse and quail; fired no one knows how many thousands of shots at the birds. The total amount of game actually brought to bag by him in the last ten years comprises two ruffed grouse and one woodcock—and there is every' reason to believe that the grouse were killed by accident. As a field shot tins man is a veritable, incorrigible “duffer. ” But at the traps he can break ten glass balls straight, or kill the live birds sprung from a trap as often as any other gunner in his vicinity.— Forest and Stream.