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4th. Having a dull front sight not easily seen. 



5th. Shooting toward the sun. 



6th. The sun lighting up the base of the front sight 

 instead of the tip, so that you take too coarse a sight 

 by mistaking the base for the tip. 



7th. Shooting in insufficient light, especially at 

 night. 



8th. Shooting at a dim mark. 



pth. Too much reflection of light from the back 

 sight, thus blurring your view of the front sight. 



icth. The varying play of light and shade upon 

 open sights, making it almost impossible under con- 

 stantly changing amounts and direction of light to 

 always catch precisely the same amount of the front 

 sight. 



nth. Ocular aberration upon the front sight, or 

 the impossibility of measuring with the eye always 

 the same exact amount of the front sight, even where 

 the light, etc., is always the same. 



i2th. Shooting down hill. This may be partly 

 from having the light strike more directly upon the 

 back of the front sight so that the base is mistaken for 

 the tip. But it is more because the apparent center- 

 line of the animal's body is thus raised above the real 

 center-line by the line of sight striking obliquely. In 

 tins way a shot four inches too high, that if fired on a 

 level may still hit a deer, when fired from an angle of 

 forty degrees or more above him may just clear his 

 back. This error is very hard to avoid. 



i3th. Up-hill shots when very long and you attempt 

 to allow for distance. When short there is little or 

 no trouble. 



Besides overshooting there are errors enough that 

 you can make. As soon as you begin to correct 



