8o Unexplored Spain 



(1) Gun-shooting with shot where auy "aim" or even an 

 apology for an aim is fatal to modern maximum success. 



(2) Kitie-shooting proper, which must be mechanical and 

 deliberate — the more so, the more effective. 



(3) Thirdly, we have this uew system intermediate between 

 the two — " gun-shooting with ball." 



Using the Paradox as a ritle, an alignment must be taken ; 

 but it may be taken as with a gun, and not necessarily the 

 deliberate and mechanical alignment essential with a rifle, 

 properly so called. 



In short, with a Paradox, always glance along the sights. 

 You will nearly always find that some " refinement " of aim is 

 required. More words are useless. 



One word as to the " forward allowance " needed after the 

 rough alignment (as explained) has been effected. At short 

 snapshot ranges none is required. At a galloping stag at 50 

 yards, the sights should clear his chest; at 100 yards, half-a- 

 length ahead, and double that for 150 yards. At these longer 

 ranges one instinctively allows for "drop" by taking a fuller 

 sight. For standing shots, of course, the back-sights can 

 be used. 



BOAE-HUNTING BY MoONLIGHT (EsTREMADUKA) 

 " Caceria d la Ronda." 



This picturesque and altogether break-neck style of hunting 

 the boar — a style perhaps more consonant than " driving " 

 with popular notions of the dash and chivalry of Spanish 

 character — still survives in the wild province of Estremadura. 

 No species of sport in our experience will compare with the 

 Ronda for danger and sheer recklessness unless it be that of 

 "riding lions" to a stand, as practised on British East African 

 plains.^ 



Years ago we described this system of the Ronda in the 

 "Bio- -Game" volumes of the Badminton Library, and here 

 write a new account, correcting some slight errors which had 

 crept into the earlier article. 



This sport is practised by moonlight at that period of the 

 autumn called the Montanera, when acorns and chestnuts fall 



^ See On Safari, by Abel Chapman, pp. 216-17. The Spanish term Jlondamay roughly 

 be translated as "rounding-up." 



