October, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
469 
firing at 200 yards at a black bull’s-eye, 
8 inches in diameter. By taking this fine 
white line beneath the bull’s-eye, and 
granting that his hold is perfect, he will 
have been successful should the bullet 
strike in the center of the black bull’s- 
eye. 
It is apparent to anyone, then, that the 
target shooter desires his bullet to strike 
about 5 inches above the point where his 
front sight rests at 200 yards, and figured 
at 500 yards he desires to strike 13 inches 
above the point where the tip of the 
front sight rests. For the target shooter 
this may be the proper method of aim- 
ing and gives excellent results. On the 
other hand, how does this system work 
out for the man who merely indulges in 
target practice as a preliminary for 
sighting in his rifle and preparing him- 
self for firing against game? Does the 
big-game hunter desire to strike from 5 
inches to 13 inches above the point where 
the tip of the front sight rests? 
The game shooter, when he aims at 
game, puts the tip of his front sight at 
the exact point at which he desires the 
bullet to strike, and if he performs all 
the other operations perfectly his bullet 
actually does strike where the tip of his 
front sight rests. Surely, then, hunters 
cannot have two systems of aiming and 
two different methods of sighting their 
rifle for the same range, one for the 
target the other for game. If the hunter 
fires at game with the system employed 
by target shooters his misses will greatly 
exceed his hits. For the hunter, then, 
the problem to be solved at the very out- 
set is, will he accept the target shooter’s 
system of aiming and scoring, or will he 
subordinate the target shooter’s system 
to a workable system that will give re- 
sults in an actual test against game ? 
A METHOD that suggests itself to 
me is to adapt the target to the 
hunter. The principles of firing against 
big game have been demonstrated too 
many times to permit one to think of 
materially changing them, but the target 
itself could be very easily changed with- 
out loss either to the target shooter pure 
and simple or the big-game hunter, since 
it is merely a mechanical means to 
graphically show the hunter the results 
of his firing, while giving him a definite 
point at which to aim. 
All will agree that we must have some 
definite point at which to aim, no matter 
what system we use, but we are not 
bound down to the principle that only 
shots that strike in the black shall count 
as perfect ones. For example, my target 
for 200 yards’ shooting would be as fol- 
lows: On a frame 6 feet horizontal by 4 
feet vertical I would place a black bull’s- 
eye, 8 inches in diameter, solely as an 
aiming point. Now, with the bottom of 
the bull’s-eye (six o’clock, as target 
shooters say) as a center, I would draw 
a circle whose diameter is 20 inches. If 
the target shooter desires he can use this 
same point as a center and draw another 
circle which will give him his three rings 
and two spaces on the target. However, 
these last two points are not necessary 
for the big-game hunter. 
Now, whether you are a target shooter 
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