Outing . THE CONVENTIONAL TARGET SHOOTER SATTITUDE CAN VIEW ALL COMERS WITH CON-FIDENCE the average man. She has never jadedher nerves with stimulants nor dulledthem with narcotics; her muscles arelight, loose, and trained to delicate work,while a mans are frequently over hardand trained to put forth strength in vio-lent, abrupt jerks. Personally, for all deliberate shots,and shots at wilderness small game arevery deliberate indeed, I find best theconventional target shooters attitude:feet firmly placed, body erect and pistolarm fully extended. If the arm is thruststraight out in front, it is
Outing . THE CONVENTIONAL TARGET SHOOTER SATTITUDE CAN VIEW ALL COMERS WITH CON-FIDENCE the average man. She has never jadedher nerves with stimulants nor dulledthem with narcotics; her muscles arelight, loose, and trained to delicate work,while a mans are frequently over hardand trained to put forth strength in vio-lent, abrupt jerks. Personally, for all deliberate shots,and shots at wilderness small game arevery deliberate indeed, I find best theconventional target shooters attitude:feet firmly placed, body erect and pistolarm fully extended. If the arm is thruststraight out in front, it is lax and uncer-tain ; if straight to the side it is overtensed. About midway between theseextremes will be found a very steady andcomfortable position. In such shooting a painstaking align-ment of the sights and a gradual, steady,increasing pressure on the trigger arenecessary. A sudden jerk will point thepistol high at the moment of resulting miss is very generally ex- 592 OUTING
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