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Show IIQIEO SHOOTER i v : IKS H SUBJECT! , ' ' ! : .- Acl Topperwein, Noted Star, Gives Fans First Rate Information ijjfj By AD TOPIKT:.WJ3TX. fov Do you really use your sight when grj shooting at flying targets with the S"l rifle? . I have been asked this question a tfcJ thousand times. XL I have answered the question a! Ljrv.. thousand times by saying that I posi-i jR' ' tlvely do. j IHjJV A great many people who follow tho Mr- shooting' game are under the imprcs-. 31 sion that it is utterly impossible for! K a shooter, no manor how expert he1 Hn may be to actually "catch and line" H up the sights on a fast moving tar- H get and that all such shooting as hit-; H tins small pieces of coal, brick, mar-j HH blca, etc., in mid-air is simply done, HD by "instinct" which they claim is ac- Hl quired by constant practice and that HI the performer does not see his sights RT This is wrong. ft- Some wise ones even go as far a m saying that a good man with lots of K practice could shoot Just as well if he K- j knocked the sights off his gun and m I Just shot by simply pointing the gun, I like one points the finger. E , Wrong again. h ) The sights on a riflo or revolver ' f are put there for a purpose, a very important purpose. They arc just as necessary as tho rifling in your barrel. - j "Not only must you have sights, but j they must be adjusted accurately to mke your bullet go straight to the mark. A riflo without accurate Kg v sights is absolutely useless as far as FA-Yjdflr accuracy is concerned, ovon In the rytr hands of the most expert marksman. fl " When you meet up with a shooter who'claims that'ho doos not use or see hla sights, ask him to knock them i off. Then watch him shoot. This will tell tho story, rj Snap nhootlng at moving objects with n rifle or revolver Is only ac complished with a, great deal of steady ' j practice. The oyo, brain and finger must work together in perfect har- Jmony and the most important factor ' Is the gun which must be accurately sighted. |