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the sight and the values of the graduations. 
That was the first time I ever held an ’03 
Springfield in my hands. A range chanced 
to be unoccupied, so I went to the firing 
line, assumed a sitting position and set 
the sight, without coaching or suggestions 
from anyone, and fired 10 shots on the 
“A” target (8" bull and 26" four ring) at 
300 yards. The score was 46, 6 bulls and 
4 fours, no sighting shots, and the entire 
group well inside of an 18-inch circle. 
This conclusively proves just one thing: 
What a beginner requires is a thorough 
training in the basic principles of marks¬ 
manship and once he has grasped the true 
values of the various elements of the game, 
he can shoot effectively with any rifle pos¬ 
sessed of a reliable degree of accuracy. 
This can be learned just as thoroughly 
by shooting a “22,” as with a “30-40” or 
a “30-50.” The man who can make credit¬ 
able scores with the “long-rifle” cartridge 
is his “22 musket” is a rifleman of no mean 
ability and will soon acquire an acquaint¬ 
ance with trajectory, windage and the other 
fine points of the game. Hand him a Krag 
or a Springfield and he will soon make 
the best of them scratch hard to beat him. 
And he has gained this vital knowledge by 
firing a cartridge he can afford to buy and 
one that with ordinary precautions is safe 
to fire, even in thickly populated districts. 
STOOLING BAY BIRDS 
Should you find that large birds, such as 
curlew, marlin and willet, have a roosting 
place on one of the bald marshes, the box 
blind should be used, or, if thoroughfares 
dissect the marsh, you can paddle your 
skiff, which should be painted green, up 
one of the drains toward the spot where 
the birds lower their flight, or circle over 
before alighting, and conceal it in the high¬ 
est tuft of grass. Curlew, and especially 
the “jack,” do not stool well where a blind 
has been erected. They are wary at best 
and wild when their favorite haunts have 
an unnatural look. Willet almost invari¬ 
ably stool well, and both the marlins are 
unsuspecting. The large and small yellow- 
legs, dowitchers, robin snipe and lesser 
birds are readily called within reach, pro¬ 
viding, of course, that the proper place has 
been selected. The bars and shoals are 
the favorite haunts of the blackbreast 
plover, the willet and dowitchers, while the 
birds are traveling with the wind, or as 
meadow pond-holes are the sure places to 
attract the yellowlegs, especially when the 
birds are traveling with the wind, or as 
baymen call it, a “free wind.” 
There are various kinds of stools manu¬ 
factured, such as both solid and sectional 
wooden ones, hollowed out, flat tin stools, 
cut out of sheet-tin, and several years ago 
a patented tin stool was introduced on the 
market, that met with favor in the eyes of 
those sportsmen who cared little for ex¬ 
pense. The latter are of very ingenious 
make, each half of the decoy being concave 
on the inside and convex on the out, thus 
representing one-half of a bird; the two 
parts are hinged together on the back, so 
that when shut they resemble a well-formed 
snipe, and when open can be packed one 
in another, after the manner of a nest of 
boxes, and occupy but little space. All 
these decoys are painted to resemble the 
different varieties of snipe, and are stuck up 
by means of sticks—short ones on dry bars 
or shoals and long ones for deep water. 
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