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and care to raise a slide exactly to the required height, but 

 a, flap is lifted in half a second. 



The telescope sight is much used in America and Switzer- 

 land, but in this country it is not considered of any service 

 in deer-stalking, a shot being seldom taken at more than. 

 300 yards. It consists of a small tube fixed along the upper 

 surface of the barrel in such a manner that it may be raised 

 or depressed according to the distance, and containing lenses 

 similar in construction to those of an. ordinary telescope. 

 For target practice, especially with short-sighted people, the 

 plan is greatly to be recommended. 



RIFLE-POWDER AND POWDER-FLASK. 



The powder suited for shot-guns is not so well adapted for 

 rifles, which require a kind that shall leave as little residuum 

 as possible, and which will not burn too quickly. Hence 

 rifle-powder can hardly be too coarse, provided it will pass 

 into the base of the nipple, and as the caps for rifles are 

 stronger than for the shot-gun, there is no necessity for its 

 entering the nipple-tube itself. Curtis and Harvey have the 

 reputation of making the best rifle-powder, their No. 6 being 

 that generally adopted. The powder of the Kames Company 

 in Scotland is also extremely free from residuum, and between 

 it and the above there is little choice. 



Powder-flasks for rifle shooting should be made with the 

 charger of small diameter, especially if the tubular ramrod is 

 adopted. The object of the small size is to admit of its 

 passing into the muzzle, by which some little adhesion of the 

 powder to its sides is prevented. In other respects there is 

 no difference from the usual form. (See also p. 355.) 



RESTS. 



For target practice a wooden rest is generally adopted, but 

 this is quite useless for sporting purposes. In deer-stalking, 

 also, there are almost always rocks or similar projections, 

 which serve as rests, but in shooting over a plain, there is 

 sometimes nothing of the kind, and then a rest such as that 

 introduced by Captain Conolly will be found of great service. 



