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much coveted game is the hardest part of 

 the whole business — it seems so much like 

 chance -work. With many shooters, both 

 young and old, indeed, it appears to demand 

 an actual physical effort to interpose the 

 barrels between the bird and the eyes. But 

 for this, as with most other things, the best 

 cure is success. A few birds promptly downed 

 will do more good than volumes of theoretical 

 instruction. 



Just a word of advice on a common situation 

 of snipe-shooting, the proper treatment or the 

 reverse of which may make the difference of 

 a good many hundred birds, added or lost to 

 your bag during your shooting career. We 

 will suppose that you have fired at and killed 

 a snipe, which has risen alone, with your first 

 barrel, as you will, I hope, constantly do. 

 Now, every work on shooting that I have 

 read lays great stress on the importance of 

 reloading at once, so that you may be ready 

 for another bird in the shortest possible time. 

 My advice is exactly the reverse. Do not 

 reload at once, but on the other hand, after 

 your first barrel, remain on the qtd vive at 



