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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1921 
WHEN THE FIGHTING SMALL-MOUTH BREAKS AWAY OR 
THAT WORLD-BEATER MUSKY TOSSES THE HOOK— 
Blame it on yourself for not reading 
FISHING TACKLE AND KITS 
By Dixie Carroll 
Say, Dixie must have written a million words and then chopped out all the scales and 
fins off it until there’s nothing hut MEAT — 334 pages of it. 
Not a line in it that isn’t interesting to the old timer or educating to the embryo angler. 
Night-fishing, the kind where you get all the thrills of standing on your head atop the 
Washington Monument — you can’t tell where the snags or the weeds are— sometimes you 
even think the bass strike the old plug so hard that they would like to jump >n the canoe and 
^ You’d better send us your check for $3.00 and well send you the greatest feast of 
piscatorial reason and flow of soul that Dixie Carroll or any other outdoor writer ever spilled 
on the subject. 
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known to the shooter, with a time limit 
set, so he can deliver a shot at an un- 
known range, which would approximate 
conditions in the field. Here is simu- 
lated practically every condition that 
enters into shooting at stationary game 
except the mental factor, which, of 
course, no form of practice can help. 
Continued practice in the machine-like 
movements of bringing the rifle to the 
shoulder and the proper manipulation of 
the trigger and aim have been found to 
be of benefit to the soldier in firing 
against that most dangerous of all 
game, man, so that if it is of value to the 
soldier, it should be of value to the 
shooter and assist him to mechanically 
perform the correct motions in times of 
mental stress, such as brought about by 
buck fever” or when in imminent bodily 
danger, such ias one incurs when being 
charged by a lion. 
Practice against a stationary target 
will serve the game shot in good stead 
when he approaches the more difficult 
art of running game shooting. Here all 
the time spent on proper aiming, proper 
position, proper trigger squeeze must be 
combined into one complete, unified 
whole, in spite of what some people 
would have us believe. 
On running game shooting the rifle 
does not jump to the shoulder, the cart- 
ridge explode and the deer crumple up at 
one hundred and fifty yards. Far from 
it. Here the shooter goes through all 
the motions of a target range, but With 
certain additional movements. Now 
enters the ability to properly time the 
Ewing of the rifle so that at the instant 
his sights are properly aligned he 
squeezes the trigger. 
I said “squeeze the trigger”, not “snap 
it”, for snapping or jerking the trigger 
can lead but to one result, a missed 
shot. But the trigger is not squeezed 
with the same deliberate slowness as 
against a stationary bullseye. The 
squeeze is the same but the time element 
enters in and the shooter takes but a 
fraction of the time to squeeze the trig- 
ger in a running shot that he does when 
firing against a bullseye with a time 
limit. 
In difficult running game shots the 
shooter must unconsciously do certain 
essential things. The only way in which 
he can acquire the ability to unconscious- 
ly do these things properly is to practise 
them diligently until they become second 
nature to him. They can only become 
second nature to him by firing at a sta- 
tionary target on which he can see 
where each and every shot strikes. 
Against a stationary bullseye he can 
practise timing and swinging his rifle 
and firing, and, in addition, he can see 
wherein he makes his errors by inspect- 
ing where his shots struck. If he com- 
mences his education by firing at a mov- 
ing target, as some would have him do, 
he does not get the benefit of knowing 
exactly where every shot struck. The 
result is that he proceeds to fire the next 
shot with, at best only an approxi- 
mation of where his shot hit. When 
these various points have become sec- 
ond nature to him, he is ready to shoot 
against a moving target, but not be- 
fore. 
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