INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ON SHOOTING. 2OI 



tered in snipe shooting. If you begin the day 

 badly, you are likely to go on in the same 

 fashion. On the other hand, if you are cool 

 and in sound form, after making a clean score 

 of five or six out of seven, you acquire con- 

 fidence enough to be certain of doing your 

 work creditably. Snipe test a man's aim 

 thoroughly. The birds should be killed com- 

 pletely and assuredly at fifty yards by a prac- 

 titioner, but near shots are the most secure, 

 and should be the most frequent. Crossing 

 shots at snipe are the simplest, but the knack 

 of stopping a bird darting straight off should 

 be learned by every one desirous of becoming 

 accomplished in the craft. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE INFLUENCE OF WEATHER ON 

 SHOOTING. 



ONE of the most essential branches of a sports- 

 man's education is necessarily a knowledge of 

 the habits and haunts of birds, and to render 

 him accurate in this direction he should care- 



