Nov. 18, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
753 
FOLLOWING THE SCORES. 
Some Hints to Beginners. 
BV EDWARD BANKS 
Copyright, 1911, by E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. 
(Concluded from page 724.) 
THE MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT. 
A shooter’s temperament has a great deal to do with 
his success at the traps. A naturally quick-tempered, 
high strung individual will find that he has his work 
cut out for him to keep cool and not worry over what 
really are trifles after all. Once, however, let such a 
person school himself to take things quietly when any¬ 
thing out of the ordinary occurs, and he will then have 
in him the makings of one of the very best experts in the 
sport. The quick-tempered, high-strung man is equally, 
of course, a quick thinker, and it is quick thinking that 
counts wnen it comes to judging the flight of a target 
and where to hold. 
Don’t worry because you missed a target. It has gone 
and a goose egg has been chalked up against you on the 
score. Get the next, and the next one after that. Every¬ 
body is bound to miss sometime. Forget the miss and 
don’t think of anything but the next target, and deter¬ 
mine to break it. 
Don’t worry because there is an individual in your 
squad who has his own ideas of how to shoot, and is 
extra deliberate in his movements. Remember that the 
tedious individual is probably working as hard as you 
are, and doing his best to make a good score, so try to 
be philosophical. Worrying over it, however, will spoil 
your work to a certainty, and all worry of this sort 
should be strenuously fought against. 
Don't worry if when you call “Pull,” the target breaks 
as it leaves the trap. Try again, and don't go up in the 
air if the second one breaks also. Take it calmly, tell 
the trapper to pull another, and let him keep on doing 
that until a good one is thrown, or else wait until the 
trap is fixed. 
Don’t worry because the referee decides you missed a 
target when you thought (and perhaps some of your 
friends thought so too) that you had broken it. No 
referee is infallible, but his decision goes, so accept his 
ruling in a sportsmanlike manner. “Perhaps it was only 
a wad anyhow.” Just think so anyway, and it will help 
you to break the balance of your string. 
Don’t worry if the scorer gets mixed up in thescore, 
and gives you or some other person in the sqTiad a 
goose egg which should have gone to the credit of a 
third party. The scorer did not do it intentionally, and 
it is a matter that can easily be rectified. 
Don’t worry if the puller pulls the trap too fast or too 
slow. Don’t shoot at the target, but drop your gun 
from the shoulder and then get ready to call “Pull” once 
more. A referee watches the game very closely, and he 
knows whether the target went an appreciable period of 
time before or after you had called, and he also knows 
that the rules provide for a trap to be pulled promptly. 
Very often it is your own fault when the puller balks 
you in this way, and this brings up the subject of how 
best to call “Pull.” 
HOW TO CALL “PULL.” 
As a preamble to what follows, it should be stated that 
it is absolutely necessary, if a puller is to do good work, 
that the pulling apparatus is placed in such a position 
that the talking of bystanders is not liable to discon¬ 
cert him, render it hard for him to hear the call of the 
shooter at the score, or take his attention from the work 
he has in hand. 
In giving the word of command to the puller to pull 
the trap, avoid three mistakes: 
(a) Don’t call in a low, hesitating voice, otherwise 
you run the risk of the puller not hearing you; or if he 
does hear you, the pull is apt to be somewhat slow. 
Call in a sharp, clear voice; the puller is watching you 
and is keyed up to pull immediately he gets the word, 
so that if you call in the manner suggested, you in a 
sort of way startle him and he instinctively pulls 
promptly. 
(b) Don’t call in too loud a voice, for the effort is 
quite liable to disturb your aim by exhausting the air 
in your lungs, causing you to inhale when you should 
be doing nothing but pointing the gun at the target. 
One or two good experts do call in a very loud voice 
indeed, but they are decided exceptions to the general 
rule. 
(c) Don’t call immediately after the man ahead of 
you has fired. Give the referee time to call “Dead” or 
“Lost,” as the case may be; and at tournaments give the 
scorer also time to answer back. If you call too quickly, 
you run the risk of having the trap not loaded, or of 
having the puller miss your call on account of the 
referee’s decision or the scorer’s answer being mixed up 
with your voice. You have only yourself to blame for 
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