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ALTHOUGH HE HAS KILLED MORE GAME THAN MOST<br />
MEN EVER SEE, VETERAN SHOOTER AND HUNTER<br />
STILL ADMITS THAT HE SOMETIMES MISSES, AND<br />
GIVES SOME COLORFUL EXAMPLES IN INDO-CHINA By COLONEL CHARLES ASKINS<br />
As a forest ranger in New<br />
Mexico, author Askins<br />
made shooting a business<br />
as well as a sport. Score<br />
on coyotes was about one<br />
killed out of three shots.<br />
I.<br />
Southwestern pronghorn<br />
offers difficult,<br />
fast-moving target. Author<br />
Askins dropped<br />
this one with scopesighted<br />
Model 99 Savage<br />
lever action rifle.<br />
0<br />
NE OF THE THINGS that I like best<br />
about hunting in the game-rich<br />
Asian peninsula of Cochin China is<br />
that the critters grow big and you can<br />
work in close. Me, I'm one of these<br />
two-bit shooters who don't hit very<br />
well. I like lots of target, and the<br />
closer it stands the better. If some-<br />
times I have to back up slightly to get<br />
the gun to shoulder, that's bueno, muy<br />
bueno. I've done a lot of missing in<br />
my day. Not so much lately in Indo-<br />
China where the game may range<br />
from a half-ton up to four or five, but<br />
1 can remember times and places<br />
where the score didn't look so good.<br />
Now this is a sad<br />
admission indeed<br />
from a member of<br />
the clan of gun<<br />
writers. Most of the<br />
. breed are self-pro-<br />
fessed one-shot men.<br />
They fire once, al-<br />
ways at anywhere<br />
from 400 yards out<br />
to seven furlongs,<br />
a1 running game-and death is inevi-<br />
tably instantaneous. On the target<br />
rangej these sharks cluster shot groups<br />
in minute-of-angle spreads, whether at<br />
100 yards where a two-bit piece will<br />
cover 'em all, or out at 400 where a<br />
minute of angle subtends a scanty four<br />
inches. Me, I ain't that good.<br />
Over the years that I have been
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