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out of date in watching John Roberts, or any modern 

 light of the billiard world, is very much ' up to date ' 

 in shooting. The shooter must stand well up to his 

 gun, and it is a fact not generally known, that a 

 powerful man who does this will cause a gun to shoot 

 harder than a limp man who does not. 



The left hand, as we have been rightly told in the 

 Badminton Library and elsewhere, should be well 

 forward on the barrels ; but this is not all. It is the 

 left arm, wrist and hand, which must do all the work 

 of swinging and directing the gun. If you hold your 

 gun as recommended in old books, the left hand on, 

 or close to the trigger-guard, you will find that to 

 swing it quickly you have to push from your right 

 elbow, and that this will affect the whole inclination 

 of your body. You will not succeed in swinging the 

 gun rapidly or accurately, and you will inevitably twist 

 the barrels over to the left ; this is one of the most 

 frequent sources of missing, and one the avoidance of 

 which, though an essential point in the education of a 

 trained rifle-shot, is usually lost sight of with reference 

 to the shot gun. It is of the last importance that your 

 gun should be level to get a correct aim. The left hand 

 alone, with its strong forward grip of the barrel, can 

 insure this result, while the bad habit of allowing the 

 elbow of the right arm to be too high is distinctly 



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