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a spruce bough, cocked ready for the pressure. 

 I want to place that bullet at the butt of her 

 ear, to do which she was ranged three inches 

 below. Inexperienced hunters would say, 

 " Oh ! he'll undershoot her." Wait a little and 

 see ! Practice had taught me my Enfield 

 cartridges were loaded with sufficient powder 

 to kill sure, at blank range, 100 yards, so that 

 when firing short of that, the nozzle must be 

 lowered accordingly. The resulting shot will 

 prove the truthfulness of this reasoning. 

 Further, when firing at a large body, to be 

 reasonably positive of your target, a special 

 prominent point needs to be selected as a 

 bulPs-eye, otherwise the sights are not ranged 

 and the bullets fly wild. 



Many a splendid sportsman at ordinary 

 game, men who could at 40 or 50 yards take 

 the head off a partridge, miss their first moose, 

 simply because the target is so large that they 

 look at space and shoot at it. So is it the 

 case in wing shooting the best shots being 

 made with large flocks by covering that single 

 bird in proximity to the many others. 



Pardon the digression made for the benefit 

 of the inexperienced, and we will put our eyes 



