Show the secret of win shooting shooting on tho wing is a mechanical art like billiard playing boxing or fencing there mil of course be degrees or excellence but any ono with the full use of his faculties and alio ambition necessary to success in anything can acquire it the in becoming subservient to the 03 c the two must be connected as by electricity the eye is never at fault it it w ere tharo would bo little hope of improvement but any ono may improve the quickness of the muscles of the arm I ook at alio of professional card players and conjurers in the art of manipulation the same practice applied to the gun will make the brilliant shot one often hears it said to be a good shot requires a quick eye it matters not how buick iho ayo ie unless the arc educated to act in unison with it every one can sec quick enough ono bird out of a trap before five hundred people and they will all sec it at alic same time but only the practiced shot can throw up the gun to hn shoulder with accurate aim and simultaneously pull trigger before the bird lias blown ten feet take tho adroit fencer or bacr he sees an opening and hn practiced obey tho eye and and alie thrust or blow homo quicker than the ayo can follow of what use then is the sight on a gun very little as X seen by tho successful way gin iDers kill ducks when it is too dark to sec alie sight or scarcely to see the barrels A sportsman should shoot gamo the same as an indian his arrow by looking at the object bogli eyes open it may be done by closing one eye is nothing gained by this there arc awu ways of shooting on tho wing one to up the gun to the shoulder and pull the trigger at alic same time this is termed snap bahoot fiig the equally good and better to begin with and more certain upon the particularly in open shooting is to follow the bird and when covered firo while alic gun is in motion when yon pull alie trigger the other hand lias a tendency to slop that misses alic bird but education will teach it not to stop lie same as wo teach both hands a action while playing on tho piano isac |