150 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
continually moving, so as to have his aim continually cov- 
ered, even after the trigger is drawn and the shot fired. 
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 
in 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. Ata 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 
