Experts on Guns and Shooting

Excerpt from Experts on Guns and Shooting
ON such a Well-understood subject as the use Of the shot gun the Opinion Of any one man is generally of little use to his fellows, and I venture to say that the more dogmatic a man may be, and the more experienced and successful, the less helpful his decided Opinions usually are to his fellow sportsmen. They will unquestionably be correct and appli cable to his own case, but his sight, his nerves, his muscular development, and his breathing apparatus, and his stamina may all, or any one Of them, make his advice, based upon his own experience, not only useless, but expensivelv mis leading to any other user Of the gun. For this reason, although a shooter Of many years' experience, I have not, in the following pages, put forward my own Opinions, except where I could not bring out the points I had in view with out their assistance. In shooting, as in gunmaking, I have gone to many experts for Opinions, and my care has been to present these opinions in a way that they shall not mislead by universal application, or by being misapplied to cases that they do not fit. My owii hardest tasks in life have been set when I had to start by unlearning all the teaching I had had upon certain subjects, and in my capacity as Editor ofla/ulnml and reviewer of sporting books, I came across from time to time so much accepted Opinion that did not stand analysis, and had certainly misled many sportsmen, that I determined to write the series of articles for Land and Water which is now collected in this form. That is the reason for the editorial we adopted in the following that also is the excuse for criticism when those who know they have made mistakes, rather than admit a journalistic misfire, stick to their guns, careless of the harm they do to their friends.
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