Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-14
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road to success as teacher any more than there is marksman- Personal effort, demanding work and study, is the only avenue to proficiency. Hun dreds of times the writer has been in terrupted while keeping note on a new sn6oter for the purpose of de- tecting his faults. by a friend who happened along and decided the case offhand. telling the shooter what to do.
 As to Gun Fit.
 While the new shooter is confused by the bewildering effect of clashing opinions by equally incompentent ad- visers, along comes the gun-fit crank with a knockout" The beginner is normal in build. let us suppose; has a normal gun as to drop. pitch, length as well or better than he should ex- pect, considering his experience at the trap, when a well-meaning, enthusias- tic friend of the freshmen class takes throws it to his shoulder, squints along the barrel. then turns to the begin ner with surprise and alarm in his voice and says:
 why, man, you can't shoot that gun; it has too much drop; it's too long in the stock and too full in the cheek rest for you. (Picking up his own gum. Now there's the kind of a gun for you"
 The beginner. especially if he has plenty of money. feels relieved. He ina gined there was something wrong and is glad to know that his low scores were not due to inexperlence-no h1s fault in any way; merely a mechanical trouble to be remedied by getting the right kind of gun.
 The damage is done. The beginner turns away from the steep and rocky path of personal effort that leads up- wards and takes the paved boulevard of mechanical advantage that forever circles on the same level He joins the long train of mediocres in their never ending pilgrimage in quest Of the
 Strange as it may seem, am firmly of the opinion that the possession of wealth is a detriment to proficiency in trapshooting. The-man with limited means who cannot indulge in gun ex- periments. buckles down to shooting, without thought of new guns he can not afford. and learns to break tar gets The man with lots of money, ing to beat the game-trying to out gun the other fellow and find short cut to proficiency. In many cases the art of shooting is superseded by the pleasure of experiment. Changing guns finally becomes habit
 About the Straight Stock.
 I find, by talking to new shooters, that the majority of them do not un- derstand the principle governing the object of a straight stock. They know that a straight stock tone with h1gn comb and heeD makes them shoot high but they do not seem to understand why The object in making gun stock straight is to keep the shooter from dropping his eye to the sighting plane of the breech. It is intended to have the same effect on the shot gun as the elevation of the rear sight has on a rifle I have met many new shooters, and few experienced ones, who do not sect to understand this principle They make their gun stocks abnorma1ly straight and then crane their necks and squeeze their cheeks down on the comb to get their eve on a level with the breech. making every effort possible to overcome the obiect for which the stock was made straight.
 am doing my best to induce be- ginners who are of normal build 10 get a normal gun and learn to shoot it. An ordinary built man can take a gun with length of stock according to his arm reach, medium full, one ana one quarter inches to one and three eighths inces at the comb. ana two and one- quarter to two and tnree- eigtts at the heel. medium pitch, and becorae a good shot if he sticks to gun of those measurements
 Do not blame the gun or allow any one to make you believe that 1t IS the cause of your misses.