RIFLES FOR BIG GAME 



Most of the American made rifles which you get 

 will shoot too high for you. The reason for this is 

 that these guns are sighted at the factory by a man 

 who holds the tip of the front sight just below the 

 edge of the bull's-eye at which he aims. The ex- 

 pert will tell you that in this way he gets a clearer 

 and more exact vision; the front sight is not lost 

 indefinitely in the black of the bull's-eye. Yet it is 

 easy to see that this man is hitting higher than he is 

 aiming all the time. That is to say, his rifle is 

 shooting high for you. 



In actual practice on game, you do not want to 

 stop to allow for anything, or to hold below or 

 above where you want to hit. The instinct for your 

 eye is to hold your front sight exactly where you 

 want to hit, and your rifle, to be practical, ought to 

 be arranged for that purpose. That was the way 

 the old squirrel rifle was sighted. It had no pro- 

 vision whatever for changing the elevation. The 

 rear sight was a small, flat bar with a notch in it. 

 That and the small, low-lying front sight made all 

 the machinery there was about it, and with this 

 machinery men managed to kill game. That theory 

 today is* the correct one for actual field work, and it 

 is just as well, if you want to get absolute confidence 

 in your rifle, to work to something of that theory. 

 There is a vast difference between bull's-eyes on the 



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