Note 9 — Chapter IV · BIG DAYS WITH BUSTARD.

The grand secret of success in this sport (as elsewhere remarked) is to place the guns close up to the game. The means by which the primary object is attained can hardly be set down on paper—nothing but practice, quick and good judgment, and a sportsman's instinct will effect it. In more than one instance we have found a deadly line ambushed within 150 yards of the most watchful bustards, and on ground where, to a novice, the feat would certainly be set down as impossible.