RIFLES FOR BIG GAME 



haps do better to consult with some practical hunter 

 who has established his own right to be heard, 

 rather than to consult the theorist or those who 

 have worked things out academically on paper, and 

 not on the hoof. No matter which school you shall 

 elect to join, whether from choice or from necessity, 

 you will find plenty of weapons today which will 

 shoot better than you can weapons too good and 

 too destructive, when it comes to that too certain, 

 too accurate for the good of the game supply. 



There is one system of sighting, known as the 

 V M system, which uses the aperture idea on both 

 rear and front sights. The front sight, instead of 

 being a bead or knife edge or a dot, is simply a little 

 ring. All aperture sights of which this is the lat- 

 est development rest upon the optical fact that 

 when the eye is looking through any small circle or 

 hole, it unconsciously looks through the center of 

 that hole. When you first begin to use rather large 

 aperture sights you see all the outdoors, and it does 

 not seem to you that you can by any possibility be 

 accurate; but when you look through the center of 

 that hole and you do you unconsciously, without 

 mental effort at all, are running a straight line from 

 your eye to the point you want to hit, and there is 

 no rim of metal between to blur or bother you. 



The only restriction of this or any other system 

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