The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shooting Partridges with a Rifle.

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Shooting Partridges with a Rifle.

--A few days ago an Alabama soldier, amusing himself with a rifle, in the vicinity of the city, shot off the head of a partridge at the distance of about sixty yards. A gentleman who witnessed this extraordinary decapitation of the bird, intimated that it was accidental and that the keen-eyed rifleman could not repeat the exploit. Another partridge, however, answered his whistle, and soon made his appearance. Immediately the Minnle sing carried away the bird's head. This ‘"knock-down"’ argument fully satisfied the astonished witness of the sharp shooting.

The rifle, in a practiced hand is a wonderful gun. In the upper counties of Virginia and North Carolina, it is a common custom to shoot squirrels and wild turkeys through the head: but this Alabama plan of killing small birds is a new thing in this region, and can't be beaten in any part of the world.--Norfolk Argus.

The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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