COLT AUTOMATIC PISTOL, MILITARY MODEL, CALIBRE .38
CHAPTER XIII
TARGETS
I began my instruction with a white bull’s-eye on a black target, but, as soon as the pupil becomes a little proficient, this bull’s-eye shooting should be stopped.
The pupil should then learn to hit the middle of a large object, not a small object of different colour, superimposed on a larger one.
The great difficulty beginners have in deer-stalking is that they aim at the stag as a whole, instead of trying to hit a definite part of him.
If you aim at even a large object in the former way, you are very apt to miss it entirely.
In France there are man targets of iron, the natural size of a man in profile, which can be stood on the ground in front of the butts. These are the best I know for shooting at with the small duelling charge.