SHOOTING STORIES.
(To the Editor^)/ \ Sir, -. You*' issue to-day , m local column, suggests a man rows 4n one shcit. The possibility was discussed, and the A»w»rtflor xvho was left over from Fleet Week in Auckland took tho floor; on pigeons. "Say! we grew wheat, and the pigeons used to come and settle on the stems And pick the grain just before we got ft6ut. One day I took the old miiezleloader and poured a couple of povtncls ai powder into her and filled the rest , •up with shot. (Some of the shot wa^ hanging. out of the.musa^e.) ~«.£e, n . ■» came : to my sense.s four dayse afterwards in the hospital, ,I*ey toW.;sio that next day they picked u^fOTtyeight dozen bnshels of pigeons l teet — I'd aimed a bit low."— I am,, et^, BrLL.. , September 4, 1908. **" ' *
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13744, 5 September 1908, Page 4
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135SHOOTING STORIES. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13744, 5 September 1908, Page 4
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