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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1920 
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THE 22 SOLVES IT 
FIRST REPORT FROM THE FOREST AND STREAM SHOOT- 
ING SCHOOL— AN INSTITUTION DEVOTED TO THE GUN 
Bv CAPTAIN ROY S. T1NNEY, Associate Editor of FOREST AND STREAM 
O NLY recently the Adjutant of a 
Post composed of the “Veterans of 
Foreigns Wars” asked for volun- 
teers to form a rifle club and every man 
present stood up. These men were not 
mere parlor patriots, every one of them 
wore a gold cheveron, and when a notice 
was issued for a shoot on January 18th, 
they turned out on the range with the 
weather 12 degrees above zero. Men who 
had served a winter trick in Northern 
France turned out in a blizzard to prac- 
tice marksmanship — a year after the war 
was over. As a matter of fact, the match 
was shot on one of the ranges provided 
by the Forest and Stream Shooting 
School, at Tenafly, N. J., which is fully 
equipped with housed-in and heated firing- 
points and butts, and so perfect were the 
arrangements made for their comfort 
that they shot the match in their shirt 
sleeves, but they did not know this until 
they reached the range. 
The proving grounds and experimental 
ranges maintained by Forest and 
Stream are located adjacent to Camp 
Merrit and during the past year many 
returned soldiers applied for instruction, 
because, as they would explain, “I’ve al- 
ways wanted to iearn how to shoot a rifle 
and I am ashamed to go home without 
knowing how.” Pause a moment and re- 
flect what that brief quotation means. 
Men fresh from the world’s greatest war, 
asking some civilians to stop their con- 
struction work long enough to teach them 
how to shoot a rifle so they need not be 
“ashamed to go home without knowing 
how.” The boys who came back from 
France have learned to love and respect 
the rifle, but the sad truth of the matter 
is that comparatively few of them were 
taught how to shoot. The Marines and 
the Regulars made history with their 
marksmanship, literally performed mir- 
acles that gave us back our lost reputa- 
tion as “a nation of riflemen”; the Amer- 
ican Expeditionary Force won the great 
International Rifle Match that was held 
near Paris last summer, and on this side 
a civilian team successfully defended the 
Dewar Trophy against the Society of 
Miniature Rifle Clubs of England, but the 
plain truth of the matter is that the 
marksmanship of the average American 
is not on a par with these .standards. 
The performances of a few have re- 
dounded to the cerdit of the many and 
today we stand before the world, a sus- 
picious, restless and still hostile world, 
with a fighting reputation considerably 
beyond our ability. This unpleasant 
thought is unfortunately a fact. We c^n 
and have repeatedly, put out a team that 
literally beat the world. This has been 
done with all three weapons, rifle, pistol 
and .shotgun, both at home and abroad, 
but so far the net result of all efforts to 
promote rifle practice has been to create 
a few super-experts, utterly forgetting 
that our army is composed of average 
Americans, and, as conclusively proved 
by the war just closed, the backbone of 
all armies is the doughboy and his little 
gun. 
A T various government arsenals and 
storehouses there are two or three 
million rifles, carefully covered with 
cosmoline and packed neatly in long- 
wooden cases ; with them are many, many 
millions of cartridges made especially for 
these arms, all carefully preserved 
against a contingency most people claim 
will never arise, said persons faithfully 
echoing certain noisy opinions that were 
voiced prior to 1914. This situation 
caused certain sensible men to suggest 
that a portion of these idle guns and im- 
mense stock of slowly deteriorating am- 
munition be used to train that- part of our 
population who desire to learn how to 
shoot and this suggestion met with one of 
those half-hearted responses that is far 
worse than out-and-out opposition, and if 
anyone is curious on the point just let him 
try to secure an army rifle and a few 
bandoliers of ammunition. It can be done. 
But the delay, red-tape, limitations, regu- 
lations, bonds, papers and exasperations 
attendant on the transaction will soon, 
cause the most enthusiastic civilian to 
lose heart and turn to some other form 
of outdoor sport. And even after the gun 
and cartridges have been secured, the 
civilian rifleman is confronted with a sec- 
ond and greater obstacle, the utter lack 
of ranges that are safe and suitable for 
the hi-powered military weapon. Today 
we face the unique and almost tragic 
situation of having many shooters and 
no place for them to shoot. The problem 
is no longer to create a popular interest 
in marksmanship, the crying need is for 
ranges, a chain of ranges scattered 
throughout the length and breadth of the 
land. Just open the game to “any rifle, 
any ammunition,” and all that is lacking 
is a place to use the equipment now re- 
posing in closets and gun cabinets. 
During the past year a group of men 
have been working quietly and faithfully 
to provide an institution where this, and 
other similar problems can be solved; and 
in spite of the clutter and confusion that 
always attends the building of a new 
plant, these unheralded workers in the- 
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