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Show By JIM RHODY?" jfe? k 1 Mill V,--- Sighting Rule This rule should always be remembered re-membered when rifle sights are being adjusted: Always move the rear sight in the direction in which you desire the rifle to shoot. Move the front sight in the OPPOSITE direction. di-rection. The front or rear sight can be moved in its notch by placing a short rod of brass or copper against it and tapping the rod with a hammer, ham-mer, while the barrel itself is supported sup-ported against a hard block of wood. Set the rifle sights to hit where you aim at the average distance of most of your shots in your hunting territory. Carefully check the exact ex-act position of your sights as soon as you have "sighted in" so that they may be returned to proper alignment if accidentally jarred out of alignment. The sights on all rifles are carefully care-fully adjusted before the guns leave the factory. If your eyes are exactly normal and you hold the gun in the proper manner, your rifle should shoot true. However, there is considerable variation in the eyes of hunters and all shooters do not hold in just the same manner. man-ner. Consequently, one man may get bulls-eyes consistently while another, using the same rifle, might find his bullets going wide of the mark. The sights then may be adjusted to make the necessary shooting corrections. AAA i "Lady Size" i : :.iA ; Three-pound Spanish mackerel, mack-erel, like the one displayed here, are "lady - size" and "ladylike - got" according to Miss Pauline Dixon, Morchead City, N. C, who holds this specimen. She explains that they are easily caught by trolling lure on surface of the water. AAA Free Booklet The Remington Arms company has issued a "Handbook on Gun Club Cashiering" to assist gun club members in the many tasks falling to those who are called upon to act as cashier at a shoot. All any interested sportsman has to do to get a copy of the book is write to W. H. Foster, Jr., manager mana-ger trap and skeet section, Remington Rem-ington Arms, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. The handbook thoroughly covers every problem that might come before the gun club cashier, and lists many systems of money division. There is no charge for the booklet. AAA According to experiments conducted con-ducted by a Columbia university professor, the ten top-ranking animals, ani-mals, in the order of their respective respec-tive intelligence are: chimpanzee, orangutan, gorilla, monkey, dog, cat, raccoon, elephant, pig and horse. AAA Bluegill Popular Even though fall is advanced and the tang of winter is in the air over a great section of the United States, there is still some consolation left for the angler who has learned just how much sport the bluegill or bream can provide. These fish may be taken, even on flies, until the waters of his habitat freeze over certainly that is the case in Kentucky, at least. While small worms and minnows are the usually accepted diet of the bluegill, the fly rod is becoming increasingly in-creasingly popular in taking these small, but gamey fish. Some anglers, ang-lers, referring to the bluegill' s fighting propensities, assert tnat tr the bluegill ever got to weigh four or five pounds, he'd pull the angler in the pond! AAA Swan on Rampage A rampaging swan that attacked automobiles was reported in the vicinity of Grande Prairie, Alberta. Many complaints were received from motorists, and one told the Mounted Police that he had to defend de-fend himself from the bird with his skis. The bird was one of two that had been making their home in the vicinity vi-cinity for several years and its mate had been killed by an automobile. |