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Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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cording tothe endurance, longing, and the food supply. Commonly, after a vagrant self-hunting trip, thedog returns mere skin and bone, the exposure, pro-longed exertion and short rations producing their natu-ral results. The vagrant, under such circumstances,regains his flesh as quickly as he lost it, if properly fed. Vagrant excursions should be strictly suppressed.They afford unlimited opportunity for the formationof bad habits, such as harrying sheep, killing fowls,robbing nests, etc. The self-hunting proclivity mani-fests itself sometimes when working to the gun. Theself-hunters will apparently work under control for alonger or shorter time, gradually ignoring the shooter,till at last they go where and when they please. Thisinsubordinate stage lasts according to the whim of thedog. It may be for a brief while, or it may last a dayor two. Meanwhile the dog is learning a great dealin respect to ways and means of finding birds, thoughof no service whatever to the gun while so absent.
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S. -s o, « 3 o CO ■Jo K CO H .§ DOGS 503 In ranging-, the dog should adjust his efforts to fitthe circumstances of cover and open, casting closerin a broken cover country than in an open country, andhe should come into view of the shooter at reasonableintervals to note the proper course as a base line toguide him in keeping within proper bounds. Whenhunting in cover exclusively, as in hunting ruffedgrouse and woodcock, his proper range should notmuch exceed that of the spaniel; that is, gunshot. Back, back stand, or back set, is when one dog standsstanchly at sight of a pointing dog, the attitude of thebacking dog being much like that which he assumeson a point, though in many instances it is more or lessrelaxed. In any case, as the dog advances in years,he backs with less intensity. If the pointing dog has pointed false a few times,the backing dog, observing that the act is deceptive,loses confidence in his fellow worker, disregards hispoints, and goes on about his own affairs, o

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