SHOOTING STORIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3839, 1 September 1928, Page 3

SHOOTING STORIES.

WITH NO APOLOGIES TO BARON MUNCHHAUSEN. Tales grave and gay are often heard at Manawatu Rabbit Board meetings when serious business is disposed of. On Thursday some amusing shooting tales were told by members. ' The chairman (Mr. B. G. Gower) started the ball rolling by relating how he had shot a prize rooster by accident. The unfortunate bird had been concealed behind a clump of bushes when he fired at a rabbit in the foreground, The shot was good and true and the chairman gathered up his rabbit. The next day, however, the rooster was missing and a search was instituted, but.it was not until several days later that its remains were found in the bushes directly/behind where the rabbit had been killed.

Trustee MeKelvie vouched for the veracity of the following: A friend of his was out quail shooting and when passing along the bank of a stream a quail rose and skimmed over the surface of the water. He fired and the quail fell on the opposite bank dead. At the same time a splashing was noticed in the water and on investigating the shooter discovered a fine trout which had been badly hit by some of the pellets. Trustee Gloyn’s contribution capped the lot. A friend of his was shooting woodcock in the Old Country. He also was working along the bank of a creek when a woodcock rose and skimmed over the water. A shot resulted and the bird fell dead but at the same time as the shot was fired a salmon leapt out of the water and also received the full benefit of the charge. The gun was an old one and had not been in use for some time and the kick caused by the explosion of the charge caused the shooter to fall backwards, and in doing so fell on

Trustee MeKelvie: You beat me. and killed a hare! (Laughter).