Excerpt from The Sporting Rifle: The Shooting of Big and Little Game Together With a Description of the Principal Classes of Sporting Weapons Hen practising with rifle, pistol, gun, or foil, there is an unfortunate tendency to overlook the fact that such practice is only a means to an end. Such practice, unless strictly confined to the Object in View, is apt to degenerate into a mere game Of skill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.