INDIAN ANTELOPES 



shooting at the running deer at the Southern India 

 Rifle Meeting, in Bangalore, I always shot in the 

 sitting position, and I won a good many prizes at 

 that target (unlimited entries), including at one 

 meeting a highest possible in the single-barrel 

 contest (seven single shots at 100 yards), upon 

 which occasion I used a Government Martini- 

 Henry rifle ; and also, in the same meeting, a 

 highest possible in the double-barrelled event (three 

 pairs of double shots), in which I used a '500 

 express rifle. The bull's-eye was six inches, but 

 the deer was certainly running very slowly, whereas 

 at the Bisley Meeting it travels at a high rate of 

 speed. 



Some few men are very steady shots in the 

 standing position, as, for instance, Colonel W., 

 so often mentioned in this book, who won the 

 then Daily Graphic Seventy Guinea Cup at one 

 Bisley Meeting with a score of thirty-four points 

 out of a possible thirty-five, the distance being 200 

 yards, and the position standing. To beginners in 

 game shooting, but experts at target shooting in 

 the standing position, I would say by all means 

 take the shot standing, for the act of sitting down 

 may, though more often it does not, become the 

 signal for the flight of the antelope ; but all 

 ordinary shots will do well to run the risk, and 

 to take their shot at the game in a sitting position. 



There is not much to fire at, the animal being 

 very lightly made ; and the sportsman should re- 

 member that a black buck is exceedingly tough, 

 and if hit too far back, or if only a leg be broken, 

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