8o Unexplored Spain 
(1) Gun-shooting with shot where any “aim” or even an 
apology for an aim is fatal to modern maximum success. 
(2) Rifle-shooting proper, which must be mechanical and 
deliberate—the more so, the more effective. 
(3) Thirdly, we have this new system intermediate between 
the two—* gun-shooting with ball.” 
Using the Paradox as a rifle, an alignment must be taken ; 
but it may be taken as with a gun, and not necessarily the 
deliberate and mechanical alignment essential with a rifle, 
properly so called. 
In short, with a Paradox, always glance along the sights. 
You will nearly always find that some “refinement” of aim is 
required. More words are useless. 
One word as to the “forward allowance” needed after the 
rough alignment (as explained) has been effected. At short 
snapshot ranges none is required. At a galloping stag at 50 
yards, the sights should clear his chest; at 100 yards, half-a- 
length ahead, and double that for 150 yards. At these longer 
ranges one instinctively allows for “drop” by taking a fuller 
sight. For standing shots, of course, the back-sights can 
be used. 
Boar-HuntTinG By MOoonLicut (EsTREMADURA) 
“ Cacerta & la Ronda.” 
This picturesque and altogether break-neck style of hunting 
the boar—a style perhaps more consonant than “ driving” 
with popular notions of the dash and chivalry of Spanish 
character—still survives in the wild province of Estremadura. 
No species of sport in our experience will compare with the 
Ronda for danger and sheer recklessness unless it be that of 
“riding lions” to a stand, as practised on British Hast African 
plains.* 
Years ago we described this system of the Ronda in the 
“ Bio-Game” volumes of the Badminton Library, and here 
write a new account, correcting some slight errors which had 
crept into the earlier article. 
This sport is practised by moonlight at that period of the 
autumn called the Montanera, when acorns and chestnuts fall 
1 See On Safari, by Abel Chapman, pp. 216-17. The Spanish term Ronda may roughly 
be translated as ‘‘rounding-up.” 
