SHOOTING A STAG.
It is not by any moans so easy to shoot a staff as some people ..think it is. It may entail patient waiting through a whole season. It may mean- long* and hard tramps across rough country, in all sorts of weather. But if in the end you get a “royal” 'or—still better—a twenty-pointer you will be well repaid for all your labour. If you shoot anything under ten points, you are likely' to get into trouble. Take care, and bear in mind what a point is. If you can't hang a hunting-crop on it, it isn’t a point. Even when you are well within sight of your stag, there m much to be done. You have to stalk him, and that is a task often demanding infinite patience and delicacy. Then, when you have got a good position in range, you have to shoot him. If you happen to ba using inferior ammunition, you will probably not succeed in shooting him. Mind, you only get a single chance! Every true sportsman knows that the one cartridge for tho deer-stalker is the "C.A.C." .303, Special Soft-Hosed. When it hits, it kills. It has never been known to misfire. It can bo relied on at all times, and under all conditions. It has in short, ill! the qualities that have combined to make ''C.A.C.” ammunition famous throughout Australasia. 3
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 7
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231SHOOTING A STAG. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 7
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