During certain seasons the larger pigeons roost, in countless thousands, in trees on little isolated cays remote from the larger islands, where wonderful shooting may be had during the morning and evening flights.
The best deer shooting I have ever had was at what is called the Cogonal Grande in the center of the island of Culion.
The shooting has fallen off rapidly here, and in Nueva Ecija and Tarlac, for the same cause.
On Naujan Lake in Mindoro, and elsewhere in the provinces, magnificent duck shooting may still be had.
A few years ago magnificent duckshooting was to be had on the Laguna de Bay, as well as in the province of Bataan just across the bay from Manila.
Emin Bey, their Governor, is a very mild ruler; that other one at Khartoum is in the habit of shooting mutineers.
Then there was big game shootingwhich he enjoyed, and all the happy freedom from narrow conventions.
She had no idea that any one else was out shooting that morning.
I have always felt anxious while she has been absent on her snipe-shooting expeditions alone, but am so much easier in mind now that the doctor has taken charge of her.
The pickup car jetted toward it; by the time it reached the spot, the shooting had stopped, and a crowd was gathering around something white on the ground.
Any jury that sees them and hears that Ortheris girl's story will acquit you from the box, with a vote of censure for not shooting Kellogg, too.
Gus Brannhard sprawled in an armchair, smoking a cigar and looking at Mallin as he would look at a river pig when he doubted whether it was worth shooting it or not.
Why, even the killing of the Fuzzy and the shooting of Borch, inexcusable as that had been, wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't been for that asinine murder complaint.
Brannhard called Ruth Ortheris to the stand, and, after some futile objections by Coombes, she was allowed to tell her own story of the killing of Goldilocks, the beating of Kellogg and the shooting of Borch.
This is it, Jack; it's all over butshooting the cripples!
The trouble was, they would also be shooting an irreparable hole in the Zarathustra Company's charter.
Then he reflected that no cartridge fired at a target is really wasted, and that he hadn't done any shooting recently.
He backed away, sat on the edge of the table and picked up Baby Fuzzy, fondling him while Leslie Coombes accused Jack Holloway of brutally assaulting the said Leonard Kellogg and ruthlessly shooting down Kurt Borch.
And while the bells made merry in the sunshine, all the world with his dog was out shootingamong the beets and colza.
People in elaborate shooting costumes sallied from the château with guns and game-bags; and this was a pleasure in itself, to remain behind while these elegant pleasure-seekers took the first of the morning.
The story centres on the Appin Murder of 1751, about which he had made inquiries in the neighbourhood of Rannoch, where Alan Breck skulked after the shooting of Campbell of Glenure in the hanging wood south of Ballachulish.
All was confusion for a brief space, but no more shooting took place.
This "creasing" consisted in taking a very careful and deliberate aim with a rifle and shootingthe horse in front of the withers, through the top of the neck close to the spinal cord.
The Indians had withdrawn for about a mile, and though the buffalo guns would carry that far, it was practically impossible to do any accurate shooting at such a distance.
He thanked me, but declined, saying that he was in a hurry, that he had had some trouble with the Comanche Indians, in which there was some shooting done, that he would like to get a fresh horse to push on his way.
Usually, as the besieging party came to realize that he could not set fire to the place, nor make any success of shooting into it, he would abandon his undertaking for some other more tractable victim.
They fully realized that their shooting had been in vain.
Considerable sharp-shooting had been done on both sides for some time, and then a skirmish took place.
They told me afterwards that they did not think that their shooting had any more effect than to speed the Indian on his way.
The fact of the matter is that they did considerable shooting in their own behalf, and that they failed to accomplish anything in the way of killing the white folks was due to the fact that they were rather hurried in their movements.
The Government shortly changed the arrow shooting feat as it considered that such a practice had no civilizing influence on the Indian and, besides, it wanted them to forget their old habits as soon as possible.
Next day I began to breathe easier as I had not witnessed any shooting scrapes, nor funerals, so I felt rather safe in walking the streets, although I was rather suspicious of anybody I met wearing a six-shooter.
When the shooting took place the team stampeded and dragged Hennessey in his dying condition along the ground.
They could see already that band of warriors riding around the wallow in a circle, shooting at them on the run, or perhaps, even making a rush of it to overpower them by weight of numbers, and murder them heartlessly.
They had been shooting at only fantasms of their own brains.
We went to Silvio's house and found him in the courtyard shooting bullet after bullet into an ace pasted upon the gate.
His principal amusement was shooting with a pistol.
Meanwhile, the guide had dispatched one of the two remaining Mexicans, and, though he had a shot in the fleshy part of his leg, he had succeeded in compelling the other to surrender by shooting his horse.
Shooting a dozen and trapping as many more, made little appreciable difference in the numbers of the feline colony.
Below us lay the white and blue terrace-roofs of the native town, with palms and minarets shooting up between them, or the shadows of a vine-trellis patterning a quiet lane.
Faber had slept in such rooms before--in the old wild days when he had travelled in Western America to sell revolvers to a Christian people, who were set upon shooting other Christians.
He's a good sportsman and is out after the English shooting and fishing, so I told him to get a house in the shires, and he promised to do so.
Frank was convinced that there was no intention of shooting if it could be avoided, and remained perfectly still; then the arm was withdrawn, and another man, holding a knife in one hand and a roll of something in the other, entered.
As an instance where this fact is well observed and effectively made use of, that of shooting may be mentioned here, especially shooting at flying game.
But Sergeant Ryer, his fancyshooting done, tried to give assistance to Sergeant Cotter, who had led the first line to the German sap.
Captors and captives retired immediately from our front-line trench by the rising and waning illumination of star-shells shooting up hysterically from the enemy's bewildered positions.
He was then overtaken by his men, and they all moved down the trench to the right, bombing, bayoneting, and shooting as they went.
It is claimed for him that he killed fourteen of the enemy, shooting some and bayoneting others.
It was certainly fine shooting and sport for those rifle gunners, and doubtless they enjoyed it.
Forrest was trying to delay their advance toward Franklin, and sometimes succeeded in getting possession of pike for a short time, capturing teamsters shooting down teams in their harness and setting fire to their wagons.
This Winter I propose having the boys take lessons in a shooting gallery I know of, and then it will be different.
That he was the sort of man who would entertain no kind of conscientious scruple against shooting him, to use his own words, like a dog, he felt quite certain.
After he had annihilated that presumptuous young vagabond, Mr. Johns informed me that shooting at glass balls really was not shooting.
At shooting parties she went out with the guns, not merely contenting herself, as did the other girls, to motor down with the luncheon for the men.
The cosy house in Hill Street, the smart little entertainments which his wife gave, the bit of shooting he rented up in the Highlands, were all paid for with the money which the doctor handed him in Treasury notes with such regularity.
To seize and destroy it wherever it can be got at, seems to him as barbarous as shooting a bird sitting, or a hare in her form, does to the sportsman.
Marie-Anne heard the shooting and came--alone--just as you rolled out in the sand as if dead.
I think--I know--that I accused you of shooting me.
VI For what seemed to be an interminable time after the final breakdown of his physical strength David Carrigan lived in a black world where a horde of unseen little devils were shooting red-hot arrows into his brain.
He came a step nearer, his face livid, his eyes shooting flame.
There was but one conclusion for him to arrive at--the error which St. Pierre's wife had made in shooting the wrong man was less important to her than keeping the secret of why she had wanted to kill some other man.
Did all the shooting with Tom Steyne last week do you up so completely?
Tom has been out all day shooting and dining at the Bellairs, so I entreated her to stay and bear me company.
In the middle of his count, a Japanese started shooting at him from the flank.
The enemy fell like ducks in a shooting gallery, but still they closed in on the little group of Marines who then had to back away.
Bitter past experiences of the Marines had shown that the Japs delighted in calling “corpsman” themselves, and then shooting anyone who showed himself.
So we make a shooting engagement for the "morn's morn" if we are still on the sandbank.
How I wish I had known of there being such good snipe shooting at Mandalay, I would certainly have had a go at it there: I think 120 couple was a recent bag to one gun in twenty-four hours.
I thought it very delightful--the shooting was not too engrossing, the landscape was charming, and the village life interesting, and the simplicity of the whole proceeding distinctly amusing.
Let us now discourse on duck-shooting for a change, and because it is a safe subject, and like fishing, "has no sting in the tail of it.
One of the "dear boys" at the club asked if I'd care to go duck-shooting on Sunday.
Our plans were to tie on to a north-going train at two in the morning, and cut off again at a tank some miles up the line where the duck-shooting is sublime.
Most powerful nats or spirits live there, and if you go shooting you get nothing, unless you offer some of your breakfast as a peace-offering to these spirits in the morning.
He depended on his fighting power to keep that money safe, but he forgot that while he'd been making a business of rustling doggies and watching cattle markets, other men had been making a business of shooting fast and straight.
Maybe some folks will be saying that I've got what I've been asking for, and I know that Bob McGurk got me fair and square, shooting from the hip.
Their notion of war was midnight skulking and shooting from behind safe cover.
I told them of the shooting and capture of Paris and the death of Eisenlord.
What do people mostly do when there's shooting going on, and they've got a gun?
These, after the first bewildering shock, made what defence they could, shooting right and left, and beating down their assailants with terrific smashing blows from their gun-stocks.
