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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1920 
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'GET THE RANGE FIRST 
A REPORT FROM OUR PROVING STATION CONCERNING THE 
AMERICAN SMALLBORE LEAGUE, ITS PURPOSE AND SCOPE 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNEY, Associate Editor of FOREST AND STREAM 
T HE American Smallbore League is a 
corporation not for profit organized 
under the laws of New Jersey for 
the purpose of promoting smallbore rifle 
shooting as a national sport. The Head- 
quarters and demonstration ranges are 
located at the National Proving Station, 
where there is the necessary personnel, 
equipment and facilities to hold open 
meetings and materially assist those in- 
terested in establishing outdoor, small- 
bore ranges throughout the country. The 
Executive Officer is E. J. Newitt, Ballistic 
Engineer and one of the men who assisted 
the late Lord Roberts in founding and 
developing the Society of Miniature Rifle 
Clubs of England. Mr. Newitt has been 
actively engaged in the promotion of out- 
door, smallbore shooting since the close 
of the Boer War and in securing his serv- 
ices the League will benefit by the experi- 
ence and advice of the leading smallbore 
expert of this country. All requests for 
additional information should be ad- 
dressed to Loring Andrews, Secretary, 
Tenafly, N. J. 
Any smallbore rifle club composed of 
five, or more, members may become 
affiliated with the League at the nominal 
expense of $5 a year, just enough to cover 
the actual cost of printing and mailing 
the various bulletins necessary to convey 
the general information that is required 
to carry on the various meets and 
matches, among which will be State, In- 
ter-State and National home-range events 
and an open meeting near New York for 
the benefit of those living in the metro- 
politan district. 
THE OPENING EVENT 
T HE first match will be conducted to 
determine what can be reasonably 
expected from the best smallbore 
rifles and ammunition under average out- 
door conditions. An unlimited re-entry. 
Make as many targets as you please and 
send in the best ones. 
ARM: Any rifle using the .22 caliber, 
iong-rifle, rim-fire cartridge; any sights. 
RANGE: 100 yards. 
.TARGET: Standard hundred-yard 
decimal, 2-inch ten-ring and 1-inch gradu- 
ations. These targets can be obtained 
without cost from the advertising depart- 
ment of any ammunition company and 
are issued with 4-inch and 6-inch black 
sighting-bulls. Use the size of bull’s-eye 
that suits you as the graduations are the 
same. 
POSITION : Any, and any form of 
rest permitted. 
SCORE: Ten consecutive shots. 
NOTE : Unless the score made is over 
90 with all the shots inside the 4-inch 
nine-ring, don’t bother sending in the 
target as it is sure to be beaten. 
A LL rifles are divided into two great 
classes; hi-power, long-range weap- 
ons such as the .30 Springfield, and 
the lo-power, short-range gallery, target 
and hunting rifles using the rim-fire .22 
caliber cartridge. And for the benefit of 
those who like to make comparisons, it is 
interesting to note that the ratio of range 
between the two rifles mentioned is 5 to 1. 
For example, firing at 500 and 1,000 
yards with the army rifle can be accurate- 
ly simulated with the .22 by using re- 
duced (1/5 size) targets placed 100 and 
200 yards from the firing line. During 
the past year we built and put into oper- 
ation a complete set of miniature military 
ranges and in using them made the in- 
teresting discovery that it takes just a 
shade more skill and judgment to make a 
creditable score on the C-5 target at 200 
yards, than is required on the big target 
at the full distance. If a club so desires, 
it is entirely practical to reproduce every 
military match in miniature and get re- 
sults that will give a fair comparison 
with the military records. 
Sites for hi-power ranges are always 
difficult to find and when located are sure 
to be situated at some inaccessable point. 
A large tract of land is required, the 
equipment is heavy and expensive, and 
after the range is built the organization 
controling it can not get enough shooters 
to use the range to justify the cost of 
construction and maintainence. 
On the ether hand a successful outdoor, 
smallbore range can be placed at a con- 
venient and attractive spot as only a 
small piece of land is needed, the build- 
ing of firing points and butts is a simple 
and inexpensive operation, the cost of 
maintainence is nominal, and best of all, 
the use of the telescope for spotting 
shots at all ranges up to and including 
100 yards, makes it both possible and 
advisable to dispense with pits and mark- 
ers for over 90% of the shooting. This 
all important factor of being able to use 
small ranges located at points near by 
and readily accessable to centers of popu- 
lation will enable thousands of men to 
become proficient riflemen who otherwise 
would never have an opportunity to fire 
a shot. The smallbore will reach a thou- 
sand for every ten now practicing with 
the service arm. Also the inexpensive 
ammunition used brings the sport within 
reach of the humblest means. 
