Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
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 tricks, and tha- is the principal reason why many of our veteran sportsmen who received their shooting education in the old school still follow the habit of aiming with one eye and closing the other
 As matter of fact probably three out of every four sportsmen, or 75 per cent use one eye ouly while the other 25 per cent. use both eyes.
 It is obvious that there must be a decided advantage when both eyes are open, when we consider the disad- vantage of using a binocular for in- stance with one eye closed. With one eye the field is necessarily smaller and the view. not nearly as clear as when both eyes are used.
 If one has always kept both eyes open while aiming gun of any kind there will never be any wish to take up oneeye aiming. But should the sportman of the one-eye aiming habit wish to change over to two-eye aiming he will find it rather difficult at first owing to the fact that the brain has been trained to register only what one eye sees. This is usually referred to as the master eye" not that it is the stronger of the two, but because it has been trained to function in this way.
 It may be said, therefore, that if one has accusomed himself to the exclusive use of one eye in all shooting it would be best to continue to aim as here tofore. In the case of a new shooter, however, it would be a distinct ad- vantage for him to start right by using both eyes, thereby training the brain ! to register the sight correctly from the start.
 Charles Askins. an authority on the l subject, says:
 The style of aiming with both eyes 1 open may be exactly the same as with one closed; that is, the gun is brought up and there is a slight pause long enough for the eye to find the front sight which is then placed upon the l point of aim.
 "The focusing of the eye upon the front sight, however. will probably not l be so sharp as with one eye shut, with the consequence that the vision of the | game will be less dimmed. The man accustomed to aiming with one eye closed may find it best to teach himself to shoot with both eyes open while fo- cussing upon the sight after his ac- | quired fashion.
 | However, this is not the favorite or most effective mode of two-eye aim ing. Modern wing shots have pro- nounced in favor of the Carver method of gun pointing While this style o1 shotgun aiming is of modern origin, ir fact originated with Doctor Carver, yet it is the oldest of all systems of direct ing a. missile. It was used by the rock singers, the spear throwers the dart caster, and was brought to the greatest perfection by the long -bowmen.
 Shooting ir this fashion, an Indiar will drive a penny. from between a spli' As.I- 1G=I strike running deer at 300 and doubt Hess the Anglo Saxon bowmen wer' much better shcts than any Indian
 TRAP NOTES.
 Every member of the Boise Idaho Rifle and Gun Club has been sworn il as a deputy sheriff.
 Ira pshooters are inclined to tn , opnion that in breaking 495 of tn 800 registered targets at Maplewood Frank Wright, of Buffalo, N Y, ere ated a world record. According to tn dope we have, the best previous per formances at 800 targets were b. Charles H. Newcomb, of Philadelphia and Roy Burns, of Brookville, Ind .. both having broken 494 Wright wa o in wonderful form at Maplewood. miss s ing only 10 targets in a thousand an having four runs over 100, one of then being 250 straight.
 To those who have followed trap shooting for a decade. or more the result of the Heer- -Troeh mate was no surprise, but the poor sheotin of both Heer and Troeh was indeed surprise. It was the feeling in tn trapshooting world that the target missed by either could be counted O ; one hand. and then along came thi
 total: Heer, 473; Troeh, 4T0.
 Troeh is rated as the best squa
 shooter in the world and Heer is con
 sidered, by many. as the best trapshc of all tine-so when one misses 27 tar
 gets and the other 30 there is caus for surprise. it was Heer's poores
 shooting perfo. nance. and more tha
 likely the poorest exhibition Troe has ever given. The one scintillatin