4 INTRODUCTION 



of his subject, and made me inclined to look 

 upon his entire description as apocryphal ; 

 the truth (so simple a one as to be known 

 not only to hill sportsmen, but also to every 

 soldier and rifle-shot who has ever paid 

 the slightest attention to the question of 

 trajectory at all), being that, in firing down 

 from a higher point than that aimed at, 

 the rifle must be directed considerably 

 below the mark. Takinor the averao^e of 

 shots that occur in stalking, the knee of 

 mountain sheep or goats is often the proper 

 level at which to direct the (point-blank) 

 sights, but it has occurred to me, and no 

 doubt to many others, to have to aim quite 

 as low as the hoof The object of this 

 introduction is, however, far from beine to 

 pick holes in others' work, but to say that 

 I think I am fairly entitled to claim that in 



