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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Shooting' Schools, 
The following is a chapter taken from that interesting and in- 
structive work, "Experts on Guns and Shooting." It presents tKe 
matter of target shootfng from the English point of view, besides 
touching on the distinctions betweeen field and trap shooting: 
Of late it is becoming the fashion to turn gunmakers' shooting 
grounds into what are called shooting schools. We are not in- 
clined to accept these schools as different, except in degree, from 
the old form of gunmakers' grounds. The difference between the 
school, on the one hand, and the old-fashioned fitting-range on the 
other, is not, in our opinion, one that has introduced practice for 
the accomplished sportsman, although we know that a few of the 
best sportsmen and shots have used the clay-bird tower's for prac- 
tice, for arm exercise, and for the cultivation of rapid changing of 
giins. We are aware that crack shots at clay birds extol the diffi- 
culty of it as beyond that of live-pigeon shooting. But the whole 
objection that can be urged to it is not summed up in its greater 
or less difficulty, but in its difference from living game. 
We have avoided regular practice at clay-bird shooting for two 
reasons; first, because we wished to remain impartial to every new 
phase of practice with the gun that might be brought out, and 
try it as a game shooter only, and, second, and of much more im- 
portance to ourselves, but of none to others, because we feared 
that it might spoil our shooting at game if we made a regular 
practice at it. 
In Americo clay-bird shooting is a sport in itself. It is not so here, 
and we do_ not think it can ever become more than a means to an 
end in this country, although it is an end in itself in America. 
What is the end, then, that is possible to get out of practice at 
clay birds.' We have instances where a good pigeon shot has 
been formed out of a clay-bird shot. We do not know of a single 
instance where a first-class game shot has been so formed. Pigeon 
shots were usually good game shots— we think that they usuaJly 
are so now, although we are well aware that the practice of drop- 
ping birds close to electric traps is as different from game shooting as 
the former is different from clay-bird shooting. There may be im- 
provements later on, such as will bring clay-bird shooting nearer 
to game shooting than it is at present. We think that the greatest 
possibilities for it consist in the high, overhead and coming, shots 
thrown over tall trees; but as far as we are able to judge, these are 
not very good imitations of the flight of pheasants, partridges 
or grouse yet. We think that the cause of this is that the clays 
go like a flash from the traps, and begin to slow down their pace 
iat once. No doubt if the shooter stands close up to the trees they 
come fast enough; but then they are not visible long enough be- 
fore the shot should be fired to enable the shooter to do with his 
gun what he does at game. There is, for instance, no possibility 
of swing when the game is over the gun before it is seen. Then, 
if he stands further back, the slowing down has taken such effect 
that no "swing" of the gun is necessary. Stronger springs, and 
the guns placed further away from the points of departure of the 
clays, might meet these difficulties somewhat, out at present we 
have never seen a clay thrown overhead that tested the sportsman's 
ability to meet and overcome actual pace. We must repeat here 
that we are not talking of snap shooting. Snap shooting is one 
thing; the killing of down-wind pheasants, grouse or partridges has 
nothing necessarily - of snap shooting about it; the best game 
, shooting is not the most difficult, for there are shots and stands 
that are impossible. We have been posted under the brow of a 
hillock, W'ithin 20yds. of the first sight of the grouse, and in such 
a situation, when a moderate wind has prevailed upon the flat, the 
draught created by the shoulder of the hill has brought the grouse 
far past our heads before we could put in a shot, and we have then 
found that the only plan was to turn our backs on the coming 
grouse and try the retreating shot— never very satisfactory; and the 
faster it is the worse it becomes, because it leads to more wound- 
ing. The most difficult possible shots (other than chance shots), 
then, are where the shooter sees his approaching game at from 40 
to 70yds. away, and when a real good wind is behind it. Qnder 
such circumstances he sometimes does not see his second bird until 
after he has fired his first shot. In the case instanced there is but 
one difficulty to contend against; it is one that game shots, during 
the past twenty years, have set themselves to deal with. So much 
is this the case that a good shot will measure the pleasure of a 
day's shooting precisely by the pace at which "possible" birds 
come for him. He might get snap shots at his birds by going in 
near, as in the case where he sees his driven game for the first 
tim.e some 20yds. in front, but when game is going some sixty 
miles an hour (an average speed in the hills, whatever may be the 
case on the flat moors of Yorkshire), no amount of snap shooting 
practice at clay birds will help his bag very much in 
such circumstances. We have it on the best "of authority 
(measurement and scientific calculation), that when a grouse 
is going from forty to sixty miles an hour, an al- 
lowance m-ust be made, according to its distance from the shooter, 
of anything from 2ft. 4in. at 15yds. away, and forty miles an hour, 
up to 23ft. in front of the game that is traveling at sixty rhiles an 
hour and is 60yds. off. Does any snapshooter in the world believe 
he can estimate 23ft., even on a still surface, at a guessed distance? 
If he does, and will try, he will soon be convinced that it would 
"be absolutely futile to begin to guess distances of this kind in front 
of grouse going at the speed indicated above. No man can guess 
the distance of a thing in the air with any certainty whatever, and 
a mistake in 10}'ds. means a difference of "allowance" of 4ft. 6in. at 
60yds., at the speed of sixty miles an hour. 
No man can guess the allowance to within 15in., which is all the 
permissible error allowed in a spread of shot of 30in. in diameter. 
No man can guess the pace of a bird coming over him. 
Yet successful snap shooting presupposes not only one but all of 
these three guesses being accurate. 
We know the utmost pace of a rabbit, and we know that of a clay- 
bird, and in each case we can pitch up our gun and shoot a yard 
or so in front with pretty certain results without any sort of swing 
or jerk, or even going with the game physically or mentally. But 
this does not meet the problem of the differences of pace and dis- 
tance of winged game, and a system that teaches the snap shot, 
when applied to pace, and nothing but pace, in game is liable, in 
■our opinion, to come to lamentable grief. 
There are good shots who are entirely unconscious of doing any- 
thing more than putting up the gun before the game and firing; 
but if their guns are watched, they will be observed to tell a very 
different story. It is not necessary that "swing" should be done 
after the gun is at the shoulder, but we are assured that in some - 
form swing or going with the game is necessary to the successful 
shooting of all very fast shots. We do not say for a moment that 
swing to be successful must not be combined with judgment of 
pace of the game, distance and allowance. We believe that it is 
generally so combined, for we do not think it would be easy to 
swiiig as fast as the game flies without? at the same time swinging 
faster. _ ' • 
For practical purposes in connection with this matter of "swing" 
the shooter is a pivot, round which his gun and the game are travel- 
ing. If, therefore, the alignment is kept upon the game, it is 
obvious that the gun muzzle is traveling very much slower than 
the game, as it is nearer the axis round which both are traveling. 
We do not know how quickly a man may be able to move his gun, 
but if he could make his muzzle move as fast as his game it is 
obvious that he reduces "allowance" to a question of inches instead 
of feet, as he would give a sideways motion to the. shot as it left 
the muzzle equal to that of the game. But if any one tries this he 
will find that a tremendous jerk is necessary. The usual practice 
of those who jerk is to get the gun aligned with the game and then 
to jerk. This does not of course necessitate so much pace in the 
muzzle of the gun as has been contemplated above, because the 
gun jerked in front of the game is an equivalent to more or less 
allowance in front, as well as effecting a variation of the direction 
of the shot in the way the game is going. To test the pace of the 
gun against the pace of the bird it wou"d be necessary to come from 
behind up to the alignment with the game, and then let off without 
stopping the movement at the instant the gun passed the game. 
We believe that any one who tries this upon really quick grouse 
will find that it cannot be done, which means that it is impossible 
for a man to move a gun muzzle at the rate of forty or sixty miles 
an hour. 
W^e think we have made it clear that the absolute judgment of 
/listance necessary for "allowance" in front of the bird is impos- 
sible, and that swing or jerk at the rate of speed required to make 
allowance unnecessary is also impossible, and therefore we have a 
fight to assume that to become a good shot at really fast game one 
Xnust race the bird with the gun in some way — that is, swing or 
jerk, according to and set by the pace of the game, and "make al- 
Ipwance according to judgment also. 
'We have said nothing about "personal equation" and the time 
the shot takes to leave the barrel, .because, although these trouble- 
.some factors may mar the progress of a bad shot, a good one, 
such .as we are considering, lias learned to "time" himself neces- 
girily or he would not be good. He and his gun are in touch, and 
he does not pull his trigger when he is satisfied with his aim, but 
the instasjt b'efore, when he sees that he is going to, be satisfied 
with his aim. To prove this ifc is only necesskry to point out the 
ttiany tim.es a good shot will fire at a. bird aaomer nas killed fee- 
*ore the good shot has pulled trigger. Th« l&ttef fWimit at once 
that the bird was dead before he ptilled. It is obvious that if the 
muscular movement to pull the trigger were initiated after the aim 
ha<l been got it would not be pulled at a dead bird. 
_ The object of "swing" is to reduce the necessity of accurate 
judgments of speed, distance and to some extent of "allowance" 
!° peir equivalent by means of a very simple physical movement. 
Ihis latter "swing" or "jerk" is assisted by more or less "allow- 
ance, the latter varying little or nothing with the pace of the game 
for similar distances, not varying because the speed of the gun 
yaries according to the speed of the game and should be set bv it. 
We shall perhaps be told that this is the condemned practice of 
following the game round, but really we need hardly say that it 
IS nothing of the kind. We would rather call it hastening to catch 
the game up. We do not think it necessary that the muzzle of the 
gun should travel far; perhaps only inches, perhaps feet; but 
travel it has to, not necessarily when at the shoulder; perhaps 
when coming to the shoulder. 
In order that "swing" should be possible, there must be a con- 
siderable length of time elapse between first sight of the game and 
the shot, and this necessity has hitherto beaten the advocates of 
clay-bird shooting. They cannot give a good, long sight of a 
quick target. They can give you a quick target overhead, and 
they can give you a good, long sight at a target overhead, but 
the two cannot be, or, rather, have not been, done together. When 
one occurs, the other is absent. 
It will be observed that shooting schools have their limitations, 
therefore; they are not so entirely stock-fitting grounds as they 
used to be, because it is possible to train shooters tip to a certain 
point at them. We are, however, inclined to doubt whether the 
majority of them begin in the right way. We do not believe in the 
teaching of snap shooting as an early lesson, and yet most of the 
arrangements are made specially to teach snap shooting or else no 
shooting. It is easy to understand why gunmakers prefer to test 
for bend, and cast-off and length of stock at snap shots. They 
must do so in order to get rid of the possibility of the shooter 
bringing alignment to the correction of his gun stock. It is, how- 
ever, one thing to say that snap shooting is right for stock fitting, 
and another that it is the primai-y necessity for a shooting school, 
in which one of the essentials is practice with a stock that does fit. 
Snap shooting, as a lesson, should not, in our opinion, ever be 
given until after the pupil is perfect in every other form of shoot- 
ing. It is the most difficult of all; something has to be done that 
is not neces.sary in any other kind of shooting, and we say it should 
only come last, because great experience is necessary to accurate 
judgment in throwing up a gun and firing into space or thick 
bushes, a guessed distance in front of game you possibly cannot 
see at all when you shoot. 
Clay-bird shooting is snap shooting, but the snap shots are of an 
easy kind, and it must not be supposed that being able to pitch 
up the gun in front of the clay and breaking it in style would in- 
dicate the possibility of slaying a blackcock gliding over a few feet 
of ride in a Scotch cover, at an apparently quiet pace of fifty or 
sixty miles an hour. If snap shots at the clays could teach this 
we should have no word of praise high enough for them. 
We fancy that the person who started out to learn shooting by 
practicing such snap shots at clays would be very uncertain, and 
have no chance of improvement. Everything now in the actual 
sports of the field depends upon speed in shooting. The modern 
gunner is unhappy unless his skill is tested by speed — tall pheas- 
ants, because when they are tail they are fast also, and grouse and 
partridges driven down wind— that, is the fashion, and it is useless 
to oppose fashion tinless you are prepared with a new one, and a 
better one. It is, therefore, somewhat out of the fashion to talk of 
practicing for game shooting at clay birds, more especially when 
the latter are not thrown overhead. We agree that something may 
be learned at them, provided an expert stands by to tell you ex- 
actly where you shot on every occasion, and why you shot there. 
This, however, has nothing peculiar to the shooting school about 
it, and is just as easily done at game. It is the expert that does 
the work, not the appliances, in both cases. 
If you are a good game shot you will probably shoot itlnch too 
far ahead of clay birds thrown overhead, for the reason that you 
judge their speed before you shoot, and they are slowing down all 
the time. It becomes a question whether, this being the case, it is 
good to go on practicing at them. It is obvious that if you learn 
the trick of them you must not apply it to living game, or you 
will assuredly shoot behind it. 
But there are, all the same, many bad tricks in shooting that a 
really clever onlooker can find out by watching a very few shots, 
whereas tlie shooter himself might shoot on for years without 
being any the wiser. In the first place, an expert is no use unless 
he can see exactly where his cvistomer shoots in respect to his 
game. (Here, we should remark, that, unfortunately for the ex- 
perts, most men who miss much never miss twice alike. What is 
the unfortunate expert going to do in such a case as that?) It is 
the opinion of Mr. Purdey that the try-gun is no good, and he 
gives as a reason that when it is thought that an error has been 
detected in stocking, and better work is being done, then sud- 
denly, for .some unknown cause, it happens generally with poor 
shots that they do exactly the reverse of what they have been 
doing, and the try-gun has to he altered back again. This up-and- 
down work Avill proceed a whole afternoon, and five hundred car- 
tridges have been known to be uselessly expended in trying to 
get the shooter to mount his gun twice alike, or to pull the trigger 
twice in the same time. 
Everything— or nearly so — as we have explained, is laid out at 
shooting schools in order to find the right bend and ca.st-ofi to 
give a man. That is not everything — use will make a man shoot 
well with nearlj' any stock, provided that he has shooting in him. 
A constant change of stock is never advisable, and it is far better 
to stick to a stock that all the expert.? declare manifestly wrong 
than to change from that which long custom has made successful. 
Although fit of stock is so much talked of nowadays, there are 
some pofnts in shooting lessons that we hear far less about than 
we used to forty j'ears ago. And yet we venture to say that some 
of those are of much greater importance to a shooter than shape 
of stock, because the latter depends upon Ihe habit of the shooter. 
The first of all is the teaching of how to throw up the gun so that 
it invariably comes exactly in the fame spot with neither bump nor 
jerk; the second is to pull the trigger before the gun touches the 
shoulder, so that the shot shall leave the muzzle as tbe butt comes 
home, and before reaction or jerk takes place. The third is the cure 
of gunshyness, a fault from which most bad shots suffer as well as 
all beginners. Gunshyness may show itself in nothing more than 
blinking the eyes, but it frequently effects a movement of the body, 
also, out of keeping with the idea of good shooting. These appear 
to us to be the elementary lessons for a shooting school to teach 
even yet. 
We would make one other observaticn, and it is this: that we do 
not agree with the statement that all the aiming should be done 
with the left hand. There arc fashions flying about, the result of 
hearsay evidence. Btit if any one wishes to discover that the riglit 
hand is of use in aiming, let him try to aim. at a rocketing pheasant 
with his right hand in his pocket and a string attachment to the 
trigger. We will undertake that he will not kill his rocketers in 
his best form, and we shall be prepared to bet on the bird every 
time. Another mistake is the forward position of the left hand for 
every person alike. It is very excellent for pigeon shooting, whence 
it came; but everybody and every shooting school will do better 
by studying varying length of reach than the pictures of other 
people's ideals. All men are not cast in the same mould; and it 
is obvious that a broad chest gives less forward reach when both 
hands clasp the same object than that permitted by a narrow chest. 
Keystone Shooting League« 
.HoLMESBOSfi Junction, Pa., Oct. 19. — The regular weekly live- 
bird shoot of the Keystone Shooting League was well contested. 
Three of the contestants made straight scores in the club handicap 
event, at 10 live birds. There was a stiff wind and good birds, con- 
ditions to well try out the skill of the shooters. 
Club handicap event, |2.50 entrance: 
Russell, 28 1222022220— 8 Boiver, 26.... 1112202012—8 
Henry, 29 2002222222— 8 Smith, 27 0111221000— 6 
Budd, 29 2102022121— 8 Van Loon, 28 2011110011— 7 
McCoy 29 2222222222—10 Huttenlock, 27 1012201022— 7 
Geikler, 27 222222222*— 9 Fitzgerald, 28 1212121222—10 
Darby, 27 2222212222—10 Rothaker, 28 22*2220122— 8 
Davis, 27. 0211020111— 7 
Sweepstake event, 7 live birds, 28yds. rise, $2.50 entrance, three 
monevs: Budd S, Darby 4. Davis 7, Van Loon 6, Russell 7, 
Geikler 5, Rothaker 5, McCoy 7, Henry B, Bower . 5, Smitli 3, 
Fitzgerald 4. Hattenlock 3. _ ' 
Second event, 7 live birds, handicap rise. $2 entrance, three 
moneys: Bower, 26vd£., 5; Smith, 27yds., 5; Fitzg.erald, 27yds., 5; 
Budd, 29yds., 6; Darby, 29yas., 6? Russell, BSyds., 7; McCoy, 
29vds., 7. 
Third event, 25 bluereclcs, 16yds. rise, $2 entrance, three moneys: . 
Stevenson 23. Russell 23, Dr. Darby 21, Van Loon 20, Davis 20, 
Geikler 09, Cowas 1|, Heniy 17- 
Baltimore Shooting Association* 
The seventh annual tournament of the Baltimore Shooting Asso- 
ciation, Oct. 16, 17 and 18, Baltimore, Md., did not have so large 
an attendance as was expected, yet the competition was sustained 
starchly. 
The first two days Were devoted to target shooting; the third to 
live birds. There was $100 added monev. The handicaps in the 
target competition were from 11 to 20yds. Live-bird handicaps, ^ 
to 32yds. Division of moneys first day, percentage system — 40, SO, 
20 and 10 per cent; second day, Rose system— -8, 5, 3 and 2. 
Oct. 16, First Day. 
The magautrap was used for the first time on the dub grounds, 
and gave satisfaction to the contestants. The weather was delight- 
fully pleasant. Winchester (A. H. Fox), was high man in the 
averages of the day, shooting from the back mark, 18yds. 
Following are the sepres: 
Events: 123 4 56789 10 11 
Targets: 15 20 15 20 15 25 1-1 20 15 20 20 
Lupus n 16 15 IT 13 21 12 19 14 17 16 
Gtrman 12 IS 12 19 13 22 14 19 15 18 18 
Hicks 12 14 11 16 15 21 10 12 14 16 17 
Winchester 14 18 15 17 13 22 15 19 14 16 20 
Dupont 12 Vi 12 H 8 18 10 .. . , .. 
Von Lengerke 11 16 15 17 14 22 13 14 13 17 15 
Malone 11 16 11 17 14 23 11 16 13 16 i6 
1< E S 13 16 14 16 14 23 13 18 15 18 15 
CoUms 13 17 11 17 Ifl 22- 13 16 15 17 17 
C owan 12 8 10 16 
Bsughman 12 14 13 18 12 .. ,. li 14 .. 
Leland 12 18 ;. .. ... .. '., .. 
Hazel 14 19 15 18 13 21 14 17 12 16 17 
Steubner 9 18 14 18 12 16 8 18 14 15 19 
Bond . 14 14 15 16 13 24 13 17 15 15 15 
13 15 15 19 la 20 14 18 11 19 19 
rhomas 10 IfT 11 ., 13 17 14 14 9 18 17 
Hwlliben 12 17 14 14 .. 19 .. 15 
George 7 isj i; _ \ _ 
P'-^on 13 20 13 16 13 .. 17 
Stansbury g 
i^aul j4 J4 
Edwards ' 13 
Oct. 17, Second Day. 
A heavy wind, prevailing throughout the dav, was unfavorable for 
good scores. It blew much more stiffly toward the close of the 
day s programme, and affected the scores unpleasantly. Messrs. 
Malone. Winchester and German shot from the 18yd. mark; the 
others from the 16yd. mark. German was high man for the day; 
i'lalone second. Scores: 
Events: 
Targets: 
Hicks . 
Winches 
Malone 
Leland 
RES. 
Seitz 
1 
2 
3 
4 
6 
15 
21) 
15 
20 
15 
il 
15 
13 
15 
15 
14 
16 
15 
19 
13 
8 
15 
9 
16 
9 
13 
IS 
13 
20 
11 
11 
16 
12 
17 
15 
12 
17 
14 
15 
13 
14 
17 
13 
17 
14, 
12 
12 
9 
19 
13 
L2 
14 
10 
1(1 
13 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
25 
15 
20 
15 
20 
20 
22 
IM 
16 
12 
18 
15 
23 
12 
17 
13 
17 
n 
21 
12 
9 
12 
17 
19 
21 
12 
16 
12 
15 
16 
2n 
10 
19 
14 
18 
14 
24 
13 
17 
12 
13 
17 
23 
12 
13 
14 
16 
17 
13 
12 
8 
11 
13 
17 
18 
11 
14 
12 
16 
15 
17 
111 
15 
14 
13 
16 
20 
11 
15 
13 
18 
12 
7 
8 
6 
7 
16 
11 
9 
15 
15 
12 
15 
Smith 
Allburger 
Hullihcn .•■r..,^;.' 
Tracy .'. 
Oct. J8, Third Day. 
This was live-bird day. A stiff wind favored the birds, and made 
a more severe test of skill on the part of the contestants. Mr. 
Malone was not feeling well, and was not, in constquence. shooting 
in .forin. bond made straight scores in both of the main events: 
Leitz killed straight in the 15-bird event. The scores: 
Fifteen bu-ds, entrance $10, class shooting; three moneys, EO, SO 
Hi.cks 221202102222000-10 Bond 212121112111222-15 
Se'tz, 221111122222211-15 Von Lengerke.22222U221u2l22-14 
Hazel 022011102202022-10 Franklin 2 2222110122200—11 
CoUins 222022222020220-11 John 022211120012010-10 
Malone .lU110220w WiUis (>12212212120201--12 
Dupont 11112212100222l-a^ 
Seven birds, entrance |5, high guns, three inoneys: 
Bond 1211121-7 Ha2d 1210011-5 
Hicks 2222202-6 Collins 2222200-6 
Von Lengerke 2202221— fi Reif 12v2021— 5 
Dupont 1111110—6 Leland 2210U20— 1 
John 1211120-fl Malone uUtjw 
Seitz 10U210-5 
Miss-and-outs, $2 entrance: 
Hazel 4 4 5 3 6 2 Hick.s 3 1 4 
Malone 4 0 3 4 6 1 George 3 .. 4 .'. '.1 
Seitz 4 4 5 4 6 .. Cole 2 .. 
Bond 0 2 1 1.... Dupont 4 7... 
Von Lengerke. 1 4 1 Baughman 1 1 2 
CoUms ......... 0 3 5 4 .. .. Willis 1 3 2 
Osslnlng Gtin Club. 
OssiNlNG, N. Y., Oct. 19.— Herewith please find scores of the 
Ossining Gun Club, made at the regular weekly shoot, Saturday, 
Oct. 9. A strong, driving wind pulled the av-erages down some- 
what : 
' Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 15 Bp S 
H W Bissing 4 5 5 6 .. 5 4 
N Tuttle 6 3 .. 6 4 
C G Blandford., 9 8 7 8 13 .. .. 
Geo EdgeJ-s..,,...., ............. 3 .. .. 1 
W Fisher 5 
Dr Snow 3 2 5 6 
P J Doyle 3 
E D Garnsey 6 5 4 
T Willi, Sr.; : .: 5 i :: .f .f 
L Travis , 2 3 
S McBeth i,4i.ii.i.i.... 2 4.. .. '.. 
Hutchins ...i. ^.i........ 2 
W S Smith '. .. ,'. '4 " 
Prize event: Class A— Blandford, 12, 14. Class B— Tuttle 6. 
C G. B. 
Richmond Gun Clob. 
New Brighton, S. L, Oct. 12. — The club shoot of the Richmond 
Gun Club, held at Silver Lake, S. I., resulted as per the appended 
scores. The next shoot will be held on Nov. 2: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 10 10 20 10 20 10 Targets: 10 10 20 10 20 10 
G Bechtel 8 5 10 1 9 5 L Albrecht 9 5 11 
F Schoveriing.. 9 7 12 7 8 . . j J Sclienck 5 2 .. 
Schwarzman... 3.. 4 FT Crystal 3 2 .. .. 
J Keppler...... 9 8 7 
A. A. ScHQVERLiNG, Sec'y- 
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