SHOOTING AT SEA GIRT. 



The recent Sea Girt meeting has been an 

 overwhelming success, and it is quite evident 

 that long-range shooting with military rifles 

 is becoming very popular. In fact, there is 

 some danger that the entries another year at 

 Sea Girt mav be too large to handle satisfac- 

 torily ; but this is a condition that may be 



boards at Bisley. Then some patriotic Brit- 

 ishers came to the conclusion that they ought 

 to pay more attention to the .303, as that was 

 the national arm. In their match shooting, 

 many of these English shots have used a hy- 

 brid rifle consisting of a .303-barrel, fitted to 

 a Mannlicher action, using it, of course, as a 

 single shot — a poor compliment to the Lee- 



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remedied by holding preliminary competitions 

 at other points and so narrowing down the 

 number of final competitors at Sea Girt. 

 Hence we anticipate no serious trouble in this 

 direction. 



Military rifle shooting on either side of the 

 Atlantic is conducted on fairly practical lines 

 by men who think for themselves and have 

 very clear ideas as to what they need. For 

 many years the .256 Mannlicher swept the 



Enfield breach mechanism. On this side, rifle- 

 men are sticking pretty closely to the Krag, 

 but as experience proves that the Krag is 

 neither better nor worse than the .303 in its 

 ballistic properties it is probable that the 

 Mannlicher .256 would at least hold its own 

 with the Krag in long-range shooting. 



Our own idea is that the perfect military 

 rifle should have 'a barrel of about .275 cali- 

 ber. In shooting the 7-mm. Mauser agaim t 



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