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and it may be one hundred and fifty or three hun- 

 dred yards, though very possibly you did not esti- 

 mate the distance correctly the second leaf, sighted 

 at, say, one hundred and fifty yards, will account 

 for a hit at any actual range of one hundred and 

 fifty up to two hundred yards, or perhaps two hun- 

 dred and fifty. ' 



In other words, these two sighting ranges of 

 seventy-five and one hundred and fifty yards will 

 give you hits in practical hunting conditions. This 

 is a very fool-proof system, and to repeat, only 

 fool-proof systems are of much use in the field. 



As a matter of fact you do not kill very many 

 deer at a range much over one hundred and fifty 

 yards. If Grandpa could take his old squirrel rifle 

 with no fancy sights on it at all and no chance to 

 change the elevation of the rear sight, you could, in 

 a pinch, take your modern small-bore, high-power 

 rifle, with its tremendous velocity and its flat tra- 

 jectory, and kill game with it, if it had only the sort 

 of sights that Grandpa used. That would not be a 

 bad fool-proof system even today. We are rather 

 running wild on theory nowadays ; in short, we have 

 far more theory than we have game. 



A successful big game hunter of the writer's ac- 

 quaintance, who once was charged by a grizzly bear 

 which he killed at twenty-five yards, says that in 



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