CONTENTS 
CHAPTER I 
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The targets, and how they were arranged — The effect of wind on a charge 
of shot — Why a gun shoots a httle high at horizontal birds, and a httle 
low at birds overhead . . i 
CHAPTER II 
Patterns and penetrations of guns at various distances when fired 
horizontally and perpendicularly, with deductions therefrom 
CHAPTER III 
Experiments with large shot — The comparative velocities of small and 
large shot in relation to a forward allowance for game — The boring 
of guns in regard to killing high pheasants — On hearing the shot 
strike the game — The distortion of shot-pellets . . . .18 
CHAPTER IV 
The height at which a pheasant can be killed — The best angle at which 
to shoot at a high pheasant — General remarks on high pheasants — 
— The influence of gravitation on the charge of shot — Perpendicular 
and horizontal shooting ........ 30 
CHAPTER V 
Twenty exceptionally high pheasants, and how they were killed — 
Deductions therefrom — On the shock given to a bird when struck 
by the shot-charge .......... 42 
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