SHOOTING. 



be adopted at game, and continued, in the first in- 

 stance, till the pupil has quite divested himself of all 

 tremor at the springing of a covey, and observed, in 

 the last, till most of his charges of shot have proved 

 fatal to the birds. If he begins with both eyes open, 

 he will save himself the trouble of learning to shoot 

 so afterwards. An aim tints, from the right shoulder ', 

 comes to the same point as one taken with the left 

 eye shut, and it is the most ready method of shooting 

 quick. 



Be careful to remind him (as a beginner) to keep 

 his gun woe-ing, as follows : before an object, 

 crossing * ; full high for a bird rising up, or flying 

 away rcry low ; and between the ears of hares and 

 rabbits, running straight away (all this, of course, 

 in proportion to the distance; and if we consider the 

 velocity, with which a bird flies, we shall rarely err, 

 by firing, when at forty yards, at least five or six 

 inches before it). Till the pupil is au fait in all 

 this, he will find great assistance from the sigbt, 

 which he should have precisely on the intended point, 

 when he fires. He will thus, by degrees, attain the 

 art of killing his game in good style, which is to fix 

 his eyes on the object, and fire the moment he has 

 brought up the gun. He may then, ultimately, 



* As the barrels of double guns usually shoot a little inwards 

 at, long distances, there is, so far, a preference in favour of the 

 right barrel for an object crossing to the left, and vice versa, that 

 If we were beating along the side of a hedge, it would be best- to 

 Keep the barrel next to it in a state of preparation. 



