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PART IL— SHOOTING. 



CHAPTER I. 



Shooting for sport v. shooting for slaughter — Shooting over dogs %\ 

 driven game— Driven birds — Instruction to beginners — Choice of 

 a gunmaker — Notable gunmakers — Gun practice — Aiming practice 

 for angle-shooting — How to hold a gun — How to overcome the 

 fear of recoil — Practice at swinging-bird — Pigeon-shooting destruc- 

 tive to good field-shooting — Rocketing birds — -Practice at wild 

 pigeons — Neck-shine — Shooting at deer — Stags travelling after 

 being shot through the heart — Practice for rocketing birds with 

 clay pigeons, etc. — Ordinary shooting — Evil of shooting too 

 quickly — Position when shooting at driven birds — The theory of 

 shooting — Necessity of firing ahead of birds — Practice v. theory — 

 Nervousness : its causes and cure. 



Where shooting is carried out in an honest, straight- 

 forward manner, it may be well assigned a worthy 

 position in our list of British sports. But where 

 slaughter is the primary object, its right to be con- 

 sidered as a sport at all ceases. The former may be 

 termed genuine sport, and the latter, like pigeon- 

 shooting from traps, etc., illegitimate, and therefore 

 inadmissible. 



As an old sportsman of many years' standing, I 

 must confess that I never could, and never shall, see 

 where the pleasure or sport exists in the making of 



