. Rod and gun. ually the point aimedat is just behind the fore shoulder,but in order that vital parts may bestruck the bullet should enter the areamarked by the lower quarter of a linepassing downwards from the summitof the shoulder to the brisket. In thisarea the heart, lungs and more im-portant vessels lie, and in order to getthe heart, the shot must be placedabout the mid point of the area in-dicated above—and just behind theshoulder. The tendency is to shootabout the mid-chest. This is .fre-quently too high unless the sportsmanis familiar with the rifie he is using andhas his sights well a
. Rod and gun. ually the point aimedat is just behind the fore shoulder,but in order that vital parts may bestruck the bullet should enter the areamarked by the lower quarter of a linepassing downwards from the summitof the shoulder to the brisket. In thisarea the heart, lungs and more im-portant vessels lie, and in order to getthe heart, the shot must be placedabout the mid point of the area in-dicated above—and just behind theshoulder. The tendency is to shootabout the mid-chest. This is .fre-quently too high unless the sportsmanis familiar with the rifie he is using andhas his sights well adjusted for thedistance, and takes a correct a shot is very apt to go througtithe muscular tissue above the spinalcolumn and will not stop the ani-mal. The spinal column at the highshoulder of the moose lies far belowthe line of the summit of the shoulderas it is seen in the distance. Measur-ing from above downwards we findfive to eight inches of stiff hair con-stituting the mane which is erect, then. The Author and Guide BLACK BASS FISHING IN LOUGHBOROUGH LAKE a heavy layer of muscle in which arefound heavy bone spines which pro-ject upward from the spinal column,which takes up from nine to ten in-ches more. Then comes the spinalcanal in which the spinal cord lies,which takes up about two inches morespace and lastly the body of the verte-brae, about three inches deep in thispart. In other words, in order to getthe bullet in the chest cavity, whichlies immediately below the spine, itwould have to penetrate at a pointnineteen to twenty-three inches belowthe summit of the mane. A bulletpassing from fourteen to eighteeninches below the summit of the manewould not be a stop-shot since inthis area there is no vital the bullet however strike in the area between the one just de-scribed and the chest cavity, catchingeither the cord or a vertebrae body,it would certainly meet all the re-quirements. But since as so oftenhappens one has to aim low o
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