FOREST SPORTS. 
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Brigade is eight hundred yards. Whether this be exact or not, 
I have seen wonderfully accurate shooting made with it, by the 
ordinary rank and file of Infantry Regiments, at three and four 
hundred yards, and should consider my life as not worth five 
minutes’ purchase, if set up at that distance before any one of 
fifty or sixty men of her Majesty’s 71st Highland Light Infantry. 
I am told that William Moore and William Gray, of the 
Edgeware Road, London, are doing marvels with double-bar¬ 
relled rifles on this principle, and were I bound for the prairies, 
taking into consideration the rapidity and ease of loading, par¬ 
ticularly on horseback, the simplicity of the engine, and the 
saving of friction, which I presume gives the extended range, 
I would prefer one of these beautiful weapons, to any implement 
of destruction in the known world. 
Some able writer, on this branch of shooting, has observed, I 
think very correctly, that the difference between American and 
European, i. e., Scottish or Tyrolese rifle shooting, consists 
mainly in this,—that whereas the American marksman, with a 
ball no bigger than buck shot, or even smaller, will knock the 
eye out of a Squirrel at sixty yards, where the European would 
probably miss the animal altogether,—the latter, with his ounce 
bullet, will be nearly sure of a Man, a Red-deer, or a Chamois, 
at three or four hundred yards, when the former would not so 
much as think of firing at it. 
This is true,—he might, however, have added, that the Euro¬ 
pean being compelled to shoot altogether in the open, while 
infinitely inferior to the # American at still or sitting shots, and 
off* rest, is often as far superior at animals in rapid motion. 
All these points can be traced to the circumstances of the 
case. Except on the prairies, where shooting is comparatively 
recent, the nature of the country precludes the possibility of 
long shots, since an animal can rarely be seen sixty yards off in 
the dense forests of America. The same dense covert gives 
facility for stealing on his game, and shooting it at rest, to the 
American hunter, which has led to his fabricating his weapon 
in that form which is best suited to a very sure, deliberate aim. 
