656 ifcfnas of tbe 1Rofc, raffle, an& (Bun 



looked extremely awkward and uncomfortable in what 

 was then considered a most eccentric attitude. 



A few years ago MacVittie went out to Canada, 

 and we thought the famous Dumfries man was lost 

 to us. But it was not so. He joined a rifle corps 

 in the Dominion, and came over as one of the Canadian 

 team to shoot against the Old Country for the Maharajah 

 of Kolapore's Cup in 1892, and since then he has crossed 

 the Atlantic, if not annually, at any rate several times 

 to shoot at Bisley. Last year he won his badge among 

 the select Queen's Hundred for the ninth time, supple- 

 mented with a prize of $, and after five-and-thirty 

 years of continuous shooting his eye seems as sure and 

 his hand as steady as when he first pulled a trigger 

 at Wimbledon in the 'Seventies. 



I hardly know where to stop in my recollections of 

 famous Wimbledon marksmen. Major H. C. Gibbs, 

 the great Bristol shot, of course claims a more than 

 passing mention, for he is unquestionably one of the 

 greatest marksmen of the age. Every rifleman has 

 heard of his record score on Sir Henry Halford's 

 private range at Wistow, on October nth, 1886 

 248 out of a possible 250 at 1,000 yards. Thirty-seven 

 consecutive shots did he put into the 3-feet bull's-eye, 

 and only twice in his fifty rounds was he off the bull. 

 He shot with a Metford rifle. In 1894 Major Gibbs 

 scored 71 out of a possible 75 at 1,100 yards, and 

 were I to attempt to enumerate his great scores I 

 should fill a page with figures. 



Then there is Major S. S. Young, who amongst 

 other notable feats with the old military match rifle, 



