I saw a man who actually buried a loaded automatic pistol deep in the ground, because it had a jam and he was afraid of it.
CHAPTER XXX
PRACTICAL PISTOL SHOOTING
In England, rifle and pistol shooting are conducted on lines different to Continental usage, owing to the entirely different point of view adopted.
In England big game has been practically exterminated. There are a few fallow deer left in parks, and a few red deer are wild in Devonshire and Somersetshire, and Scotland, but these deer are beyond the means of any but rich men to shoot, and the deer in Devon and Somerset are reserved for hunting with hounds.
There are a few roe deer in Scotland, but these are treated as vermin and killed off with shotguns.
Rooks and rabbits are shot with miniature rifles but the rooks are shot when young and unable to fly, sitting on the branches of the trees near their nests, and the rabbits also when sitting outside their holes.
In England the general public never shoot rifles in sport, except those who shoot sitting shots at rooks and rabbits.