150 MANUAL FOK YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



continually moving, so as to liavo his aim continually cov- 

 ered, even after the trigger is drawn and the shot iired. 

 Where the motion of the animal shot at is steady, such is 

 the better plan, but where it bounds, or rises and falls in 

 sweeps and curves, an absolute allowance in advance will 

 perhaps on the whole succeed better. 



If a ball be aimed directly behind the bend of the 

 shoulder in a deer — which is the proper place where to 

 strike the heart— taking the animal to be crossing the 

 shooter at 75 or 100 yards, the deer will have moved so 

 far, while the shot is discharging and the bullet travers- 

 ing the space, that the latter will take effect far back in 

 the ribs, and therefore fail to inflict a deadly wound. In 

 such a shot, therefore, the aim should be taken at the for- 

 ward point of the shoulder, or the edge of the chest in 

 advance of it, and that aim will probably plant the missile 

 in the exact spot desired. 



At a longer range, yet a greater allowance must be 

 made in advance ; but to do this the shooter must calculate 

 exactly how much he means to give, and then aim directly 

 on a spot at the level he wishes to cover, precisely so far 

 iu advance of his mark. 



The better way, I think, of doing this is, first to cover 

 the exact spot which it is desirable to strike, and then, 

 carefully keeping the sights in line, to sweep the muzzle 

 forward six inches, a foot, or more, as it may be judged 

 necessary. At a deer crossing at speed at two hundred 

 yards' distance, an allowance of one yard in advance of 

 the point of the chest, and above or below it accordingly 



