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serious disadvantage. Nothing is more 

 disconcerting than, after dealing with the 

 bird you turned round after, to find other 

 birds sailing into view to your right and 

 left, or worst of all, straight over your 

 head. It is very hard then to do the 

 right thing and turn straight to your front 

 again, and you will probably try long and 

 difficult shots at the birds passing away 

 from you, while all the time there was a 

 succession of the easiest of chances pre- 

 senting themselves in front. 



In front of your butt is the right place 

 to kill your birds, and it is there that you 

 must do the most of your scoring, if you 

 are to have a respectable total at the end 

 of the drive. Except in a down -wind 

 drive, you must always try and take two 

 birds in front, and to accomplish this 

 successfully you must learn to be very 

 quick in changing on to your second bird 

 the instant the first is disposed of. The 

 difficulty which besets the beginner is 

 not so much the actual shooting, for the 

 right bird taken in the right place is 



