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Fig. 6 shows the necessity for shooting over a 

 bird which rises in front of you l and makes straight 

 away. 



Fig. 7 shows the necessity for shooting well over 

 a bird rising off the hill underneath you. 



All this is no doubt very elementary, and would 

 be matter of instinct to a first-rate shot ; but it has 

 not, so far as I am aware, been shown on paper in 



FIG. 7 



this form before. The very few lines of these drawings 

 demonstrate, I hope with simplicity, that the only 

 instance in which you have to shoot at the bird itself 

 is when, as in fig. 5, it is heading straight for the 

 muzzle of your gun. The habit of making some 

 allowance for where the bird is going to may pro- 

 bably be acquired, though the amount of allowance, 



1 It might happen that a bird, having risen in front of you, 

 flying away, had before you fired risen to the level of your eye, 

 and was then pursuing a level course ; but this would be very 

 exceptional. In this case you would shoot at the bird, as in fig. 5. 



