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THE FIELD.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1887

SHOOTING.

LESSONS IN SHOOTING

SIR, - I notice a letter in The Field of last Saturday, signed H. H. H., asking if any of your correspndents can recommend a "good professor" to teach the art of shooting, &c. I strongly advice H. H. N. to pay a visit to Mr Charles Lancaster, of 151, New Bond-street. I myself have learnt many valuable hints from him, and I have taken several friends of mine (who were, I may say, real "duffers") to him, and they have all blessed me and their "professor," inasmuch as they can now make very respectable bags. The fact is that Mr C. Lancaster is not only an excellent and painstaking "coach," but he understands better than any gunmaker I have come across how to fit a maff properly a man with a gun. I notice H. H. N. asks partciularly about fit. Of course, the sportman himself must state what weight of gun he can conviently wield during a long day's tramp. This is a very important question, as I have lately discovered. I though I could carry, so as to use pretty sucessfully, a 12-bore weighing 6lb. to 7 lb.; but I have at length discovered that this weight of game gun has been beating me for several seasons past.

I may mention one fact which will, I think, show that Mr Lancaster can assist in the art of shooting. I met Miss Annie Oakley the first day she shot at his private grounds, and I was also present when she first came to our club ground (the Gun Club). At the period Miss Oakley could kill about one blue rock out of seven. After Mr Lancaster had finished his course of instruction she killed for-one rocks out of fifty, and for this performance she selected her Lancaster 20-bores - a pair of beuatful guns built for exhibition shooting - in preference to her Lancaster 12's. Miss A. Oakley had previously told me that "her ambition was to kill thirty-five blue rock out of fifty beofre she left England."

PURPLE HEATHER.

THE FIELD.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1887

SHOOTING.

LESSONS IN SHOOTING

SIR, - I notice a letter in The Field of last Saturday, signed H. H. H., asking if any of your correspndents can recommend a "good professor" to teach the art of shooting, &c. I strongly advice H. H. N. to pay a visit to Mr Charles Lancaster, of 151, New Bond-street. I myself have learnt many valuable hints from him, and I have taken several friends of mine (who were, I may say, real "duffers") to him, and they have all blessed me and their "professor," inasmuch as they can now make very respectable bags. The fact is that Mr C. Lancaster is not only an excellent and painstaking "coach," but he understands better than any gunmaker I have come across how to fit a maff properly a man with a gun. I notice H. H. N. asks partciularly about fit. Of course, the sportman himself must state what weight of gun he can conviently wield during a long day's tramp. This is a very important question, as I have lately discovered. I though I could carry, so as to use pretty sucessfully, a 12-bore weighing 6lb. to 7 lb.; but I have at length discovered that this weight of game gun has been beating me for several seasons past.

I may mention one fact which will, I think, show that Mr Lancaster can assist in the art of shooting. I met Miss Annie Oakley the first day she shot at his private grounds, and I was also present when she first came to our club ground (the Gun Club). At the period Miss Oakley could kill about one blue rock out of seven. After Mr Lancaster had finished his course of instruction she killed for-one rocks out of fifty, and for this performance she selected her Lancaster 20-bores - a pair of beuatful guns built for exhibition shooting - in preference to her Lancaster 12's. Miss A. Oakley had previously told me that "her ambition was to kill thirty-five blue rock out of fifty beofre she left England."