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you must shoot a little over everything, excepting, of 
course; at a bird which is going away, having passed 
over your head. In this case you must shoot under 
it, but very little. All these matters are easily arrived 
at on paper by a moderate knowledge of perspective, 
a subject which, I have often thought, could be 
studied with advantage up to a certain point by those 
who are very keen to excel in shooting. 
I have tried to illustrate my meaning in a simple 
form by the following diagrams :— 
Fig. 3 shows at a glance the necessity for shooting 
over every bird coming to you, except in the case of 
Fic. 3 
fig. 5, when the bird is approaching on the exact 
level of the eye and keeping a level course, which, 
being prolonged, would pass through the head of the 
shooter. 
Fig. 4 shows the allowance underneath a bird 
which has passed over your head. 
