204 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



shooting. If your gun shoot too high, cut 

 down, by very slow degrees, your hind- 

 sight. 



The greatest caution must be used in 

 cutting down the sights ; if you cut the 

 least too much, new sights will have to 

 be made. Thus it will be seen that a 

 high fore-sight causes the gun to shoot 

 low, and a high hind-sight makes it shoot 

 high; because the higher the fore-sight, 

 the more you must depress the muzzle 

 and elevate the breech ; and the higher 

 the hind-sight, the more you must elevate 

 the muzzle and depress the breech. If 

 the gun shoot too much to the right, 

 knock the hind sight very httle to the 

 left. When the hind sight is to the left, 

 you must incline the muzzle that way to 

 catch the range of the sights : thus it 

 will shoot to the left. If the gun shoot 

 too much to the left, knock the hind 

 sight to the right. 



