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the professional in giving you lessons in driving, etc., 
impresses upon you the fact that you must keep “your 
eye on the ball.” It’s the same in throwing a stone or 
a baseball—neither Cy Young, Matthewson, Bender, nor 
any of the world’s great pitchers, would ever have 
achieved the reputation they have if they had looked at 
the hand with the ball in it, instead of keeping their 
eyes fixed on the spot where they wanted to put that 
ball. It’s the same in shooting. Look where you think 
the shot ought to go, and if you have gauged the flight 
of the clay target correctly, it is long odds in your favor 
that you will hear the referee call “Dead.” 
HOW TO LOCATE THE RIGHT SPOT. 
Opinions differ somewhat as to whether targets shot at 
by beginners are more often lost by being “shot under” 
than by being “shot over”; that is, whether the shot goes 
under or over the targets that are missed. Observation 
seems to warrant the claim that far more targets are lost 
by novices through over-shooting than by under-shooting, 
disregarding for the present the question of “lead” (t. e., 
the proper distance to hold ahead of a target), which will 
be touched on later. 
The reason for such a claim is this: The novice does 
not appreciate the fact that owing to the straight stock 
on his gun, he should see his target well above the gun 
barrel; that is, look (and consequently point the gun) at 
some imaginary point below the target. If he shoots 
quickly, the target should as a rule be just clear of the 
barrel; if he is a slow shot, the imaginary point will 
have to be considerably lower, for by the time the shot 
gets out to the target, the object aimed at will have 
passed the apex of its flight and have commenced to drop. 
“LEADING A TARGET.” 
_ On quartering targets—that is, targets thrown to the 
right or to the left of an imaginary line drawn from the 
shooter’s feet through the trap and prolonged indefinitely 
—another element enters into the almost instantaneous 
calculation that has to be made as to the place to hold. 
That element is the desired amount of “lead” to be 
given such a target, so that when it gets to a certain 
point the shot will be there to meet and smash it. It 
has been stated that you should hold, or look under, a 
straightaway target; on quartering targets you must do 
the same, and in addition must also lead them—i. c ., hold 
(look ahead) of them, gauging the right spot with a 
rapidity of calculation that can only be attained by con¬ 
stant practice. 
Experts will tell you that it is almost impossible, unless 
you try to do so, to shoot too far ahead of a target. In 
other words, very few quartering targets are missed by 
novices through being “led too much,” their tendency 
being to hold too close to a target, even if they have led it 
a bit. Just how far to hold ahead of a quartering target is 
something on which no hard and fast rule can be laid 
down. You will hear a shooter say about some particu¬ 
lar shot: “I held a foot (or a foot and a half) ahead of 
that target.” What was his unit of calculation? Cer¬ 
tainly not an actual foot (12 inches) out where the target 
was, because a fast-flying target will cover considerably 
more than a foot of space while a load of shot is traveling 
40 or more yards. In all probability, the actual distance he 
held ahead of that particular target was a distance which 
looked to him as if it was a 12-inch space measured off 
by a foot rule. 
Another reason in favor of allowing enough (or even 
a little too much) lead is the fact that a load of shot 
does not get out to the mark in a bunch; it comes string¬ 
ing along to a certain extent, and consequently if the 
lead has been a little more than necessary, the tail end 
of the load will often break the target, the bulk of the 
shot having crossed the line ahead of the target. 
When shooting at quartering targets, don’t stop swing¬ 
ing the gun when you pull the trigger. If you stop the 
gun when you pull, you will in all probability miss the 
target. Swing with the target, and keep swinging until 
you have seen the target break. 
One often hears an expert complain because he missed 
“a pop-up straightaway.” The reason generally is that it 
looked so easy that he got careless and took no special 
pains to hold correctly. As a matter of fact, while there 
is more calculation to be done in the case of a quartering 
target than on a straightaway, there is more time for that 
calculation, because the quartering target is not getting 
away from you as fast as the straightaway, and accord¬ 
ingly does not get out of your pattern (out of gunshot) 
so quickly. It is always best, therefore, to be as careful 
on straightaways as on quartering targets, but to shoot 
the former more quickly than the latter, so as to get the 
full benefit of your pattern. 
Good advice to the beginner is: Learn to shoot in quick 
time on all targets, especially on straightaways. Don’t 
hesitate, because first impressions are always the best, 
but avoid anything like snapshooting. 
The novice will find it extremely hard at first to de¬ 
cide just why he missed a certain target, but as he grows 
more expert in the game he will be able to tell, nine 
times out of ten, what was wrong with his aim. There 
are of course times when, no matter how well you hold, 
a target will get away from you, occasionally without 
even a trace of dust knocked off it. The reason for this 
failure to score when your decision as to the spot to 
hold on was correctly made, may be taken as due to the 
occasional pattern which was open enough to let a target 
through it. Experts will tell you that this happens to 
them _ so seldom that it is almost a negligible quantity. 
Still it does occur, but one of the remarkable features of 
the sport of trapshooting is that it occurs so seldom be¬ 
cause the object shot at (a saucer on edge as it were) 
is surely a small mark. The novice should make a strong 
effort to note why he missed a target, and try to correct 
the mistake in future when he gets a target of the same 
flight. 
[to EE CONCLUDED.] 
Eagle Gun Club. 
Three straight scores out of ten men shooting was 
the record made in the Eagle Gun Club shoot on Nov. 4, 
at Manoa, Pa. The high gunners, who did not flinch 
on a. bird were Felix, Jones and Mack, and their 
straight score enabled them to share up first money. 
Four men tied for second with 9 kills, they being 
Knowles, Gideon, Paul and Bivans. Redmond also was 
tie for second place with the 9-men, but he missed his 
last bird and it dropped him to a deadlock with Aiman 
and Ocheltree. 
Knowles and Ocheltree shared the miss-and-out event 
with 8 kills. _ Felix was in the running, but fell out on 
his eighth bird. Scores: 
Felix, 30.2222221222—10 
Jones, 28.1111111212—10 
Mack, 29 .1121111121—10 
Knowles, 29.. .2221011121— 9 
Gideon. 29....2222202122—9 
Bevans, 28 ...2102210210-8 
Aiman, 29 ....2022112012- 8 
Redmond, 28. .2102210210-8 
Paul, 29.2011222222— 9 
Ocheltree, 2S.2221012102— 3 
Miss-and-out event, handicap rise: 
Knowles, 29 .22212222—8 Paul, 29 .222220 —5 
Ocheltree, 28 ....22122222—8 Mack, 29 .110 -2 
Felix, 30 .22121220—7 Aiman, 29 .2110 -3 
Jones, 28 .1112120 —6 Bivans, 28 .120 -2 
Sleepy Hollow Country Club. 
Scarborough, N. Y., Nov. 4. —It would have done our 
old friend J. T. Skelly, of the Du Pont Company, good, 
and eradicated for all time the wrinkles brought on 
through worry over the future of the woman trap- 
shooter, had he been spending a day among the dear 
old landscapes of Washington Irving’s “Legends of 
Sleepy Hollow,” and dropped in last Saturday afternoon 
to see Miss Pauline Brandreth metaphorically wipe the 
eye of all the men shooters present, and lose the cup to 
a mere man with a handicap of 8. This nimrod shot 
from scratch, and showed all the form one finds among 
Elmer Shaner’s disciples. She pumped true patterns 
through the ambient atmosphere forty times out of fifty 
endeavors. We herewith nominate this lady follower of 
Never-say-die Blandford as our first entry in the ladies 
event at the Grand American Handicap next year. 
The scores: J. F. Hahn (8) 42, Miss Brandreth (0) 40, 
Theodore Douglas (4) 32, J. L. Kremer (4) 30, and H. 
Montgon’.e.'y (6) 29. 
Boston Athletic Association. 
Only six gunners got into their shooting togs last 
Saturday at the first shoot of the Boston Athletic Asso¬ 
ciation at their traps at Riverside. O. R. Dickey shot 
from scratch and took first honors with 84 out of 100. 
There was only one visitor, G. M. Wheeler, for whom 
the surroundings seemed a great handicap. He broke 
only 72 of his offerings. Scores: 
G. FI. T. G. H. T. 
O R Dickey. 84 0 84 G M Wheeler.... 72 0 72 
II W Knight.... 70 12 82 C B Tucker. 70 0 70 
G IFassam . SO 0 80 F Whitney . 59 10 69 
Marine and Field Club. 
New York, Nov. 4.—Many foreign attractipns com¬ 
bined to keep down the attendance at the opening shoot 
of the Marine and Field Club last Saturday. There 
were only five gunners on hand to try out the new traps 
arranged on the water’s edge. Incidentally the sea view 
effect is eminently satisfactory, and will, when the mem¬ 
bers get used to it, improve scores mightily. The match 
was at 200 birds, and the scores: C. B. Ludwig 174, r. 
R. Towne 163, C. M. Camp 144, F. Eyland 136,- F. A. 
Snyder 148. 
