LET US GO AFIELD 



target range and bulls on the hoof. It is the latter 

 with which you are more especially engaged. Do 

 not pay too much attention to the frequently paid 

 writing of "experts," who often praise under cover. 



There are a great many rifle sights on the market, 

 all intended to make rifle shooting easy for the 

 novice or for the man who does not get out very 

 often in the open. None of these sights will, of 

 itself, make a good rifle shot out of you. You must 

 have practice to get confidence in your weapon and 

 in your sights. But if there exists in your case 

 some physical impediment, some peculiarity of the 

 eyes, then practice will do you no good. You must, 

 therefore, determine whether your eyes qualify you 

 among the users of the open-sight rifle, or among 

 those who by reason of astigmatism or other faulty 

 vision, or because of old eyes, must be obliged to 

 use some kind of peep sight or aperture sight. 



It is conservative advice to you and very safe 

 advice in these days of flat trajectories to stick as 

 long as you can to the open-sight school. On the 

 rifle range we have time for theories, but on the 

 game range we do not. We still have the instinct to 

 shoot quickly and to shoot directly at the spot we 

 want to hit. The game animal is not going to stand 

 and wait. The old school of open-sight riflemen 

 did not change the rear sight very much ; they simply 



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