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FOREST AND STREAM 
MAY, 1920 
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Only with a thoroughly clean barrel 
can you put the shots where you 
want them — the cleanliness that is 
assured by using 
Pyramid Solvent 
Dissolves residue of high power 
smokeless and black powders easily, 
quickly. Loosens metal fouling. Re- 
duces use of brass brush. Contains 
no destructive chemical and no mois- 
ture. After using 
Pyramid Solvent, use 
3-in-One Oil to prevent 
rust and to lubricate. 
Pyramid Solvent is for sale by 
most firearm dealers, 3 ounces 
in a convenient flat can that 
fits pocket or shooting kit, 30c 
per can. If your dealer can’t 
supply you, send 35c and we 
will 6end you a can postpaid. 
Three-in-One Oil Co. 
165 EZP Bdwy. f New York. 
C218 
The Wilbur shotgun peep sight will revolutionize 
wing shooting; no excuse for missing; game birds or 
clay birds. Patented and perfected by an old trap 
and field shooter. Teaches the art of wing shooting; 
will increase the score of the trap shooter; corrects 
the faults of old shooters; shows how to lead your 
birds; compels proper handling of gun: puts the 
shooter down on his gun where he belongs; proves 
the correct fitting of your gun. 
Made of blued steel, clamps Instantly and rigidly 
on breech of barrels. Fast enough for use in snap 
shooting. Has two openings with center post for 
alignment with ordinary sight at end of barrels. 
Any object seen by the shooter through this sight 
when trigger is pulled, is DEAD — as such object 
must be at the time in shot pattern when gun is 
discharged. On quartering birds lead is shown ab- 
solutely — NO GUESS WORK. 
MADE IN 12 and 20-GAUGE ONLY. Not made 
for single-barrel or pump guns. 
Price, postpaid. $2.50. with full instructions in 
the art of wing shooting. 
Write for “Treatise Wing Shooting Made Easy.” 
WILBUR GUN SIGHT 
116 West 39th St. Room 140, New York City. N. Y. 
— Sale Army Goods — 
Purchased from Quartermasters Department. 
Offered at prices far below government cost. 
All New Goods — No reclaimed or renovated 
A FEW SPECIALS 
These prices good for this month only. 
Army Style Heavy Work Shoe. 100% Leather. $5.35 
Officers Mole Skin Trench Rain Coats 23.50 
Blankets. 0. D., 66 x 84 8.00 
Leather Jerkins, wool, cloth lined 8.50 
Army Officers’ Raincoats 8.50 and 10.00 
Army Socks. 35c pair. 3 pairs for | .00 
Hip Rubber Boots 7 00 
Army Style 0. D. Shirts 3.50 
Herman’s U. S. Army Shoes 8.85 
CAMP FURNITURE, TENTS, 
CAMP KITS and OUTFITS 
Send 6c postage for Catalog ‘‘C- 16,” 
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THE HARLLEE METHOD 
SMALL BORE RIFLE SHOOTING BASED ON THE COURSES 
USED ON THE NAVY RANGES DURING THE WAR 
By CAPT. ROY S. TINNEY, Associate Editor of FOREST AND STREAM 
iERE is nothing to be 
gained by digging up 
alibis and avoiding 
facts, so let us start 
by frankly admitting 
there is something 
radically wrong with 
rifle shooting. Inher- 
ently it is one of the 
finest of sports, a 
game that is peculiar- 
ly suited to the tradi- 
tions and temperament 
of the American people, yet it has failed 
to receive the attention it so richly de- 
serves. Why? Because the shooting has 
been conducted to suit the whims and 
prejudices of a few cranks and no effort 
was made to make the game attractive 
to the man who must be reached, the man 
who, as yet, has taken no interest in 
marksmanship. The game is now bur- 
dened with a lot of arbitrary rules that 
immediately discourage or disgust nine 
men out of ten who happen to take a 
passing interest in the sport and the 
ranges have been constructed without the 
slightest consideration for the comfort 
and convenience of those who use them. 
In fact, it would appear on the face of 
things that those in charge had taxed 
their ingenuity to the utmost to make 
the game as unattractive as possible. 
Rifle shooting is the only sport that is 
officially endorsed and materially sub- 
sidized by the government, yet as things 
stand now it lags far behind golf and 
tennis. For years Uncle Sam has im- 
plored men to shoot, even offering the 
inducement of an issue of free arms, 
ammunition and equipment, and yet the 
draft brought out the fact that the aver- 
age American knew nothing about marks- 
manship. All of which proves conclusive- 
ly that something is radically wrong. 
T O begin with, the old orthodox black- 
and-white bull’s-eye target is obso- 
lete and never was of any real 
value, except for aiming and grouping 
practice. Drop into a shooting gallery 
some evening and watch how the car- 
tridges are expended. Most of the lead 
goes after the moving targets, next come . 
the pipes and other breakable objects 
that instantly record a hit by satisfying 
that inborn love of destruction peculiar 
to the human animal, the ringing bull’s- 
eyes are a bad third, and not one shot 
in a thousand is fired at the solitary 
paper target that reposes over near the 
wall. The shooting gallery is a straight 
commercial proposition run by a busi- 
ness man. He gives the public what they 
want and thereby prospers. Our rifle 
ranges insist that you shoot in a manner 
that is illogical and unattractive and 
therefore fail. The ancient bull’s-eye 
target with its concentric rings has been 
“weighed in the balance and found want- 
ing” so why not discard it right at the 
beginning? 
Those concerned with the promotion 
of marksmanship in any form, be it rifle, 
pistol or shotgun, must never for a mo- 
ment lose sight of this: Just so long as 
you can keep a man’s interest in the 
game up to concert pitch he learns and 
improves with astonishing rapidity, but 
once let him regard the firing as mere 
work, and all hope is gone. To maintain 
a sustained interest is vital to success. 
Also there is a deep rooted ambition to 
distinguish himself, to reach a certain 
standard of perfection that places him 
in a class a degree or two above the 
“common run,” an overpowering desire 
to become an officially accredited marks- 
man in the eyes of the world and wear 
some insignia that is prima facie evi- 
dence of his achievement. Here at the 
FOREST AND STREAM SHOOTING 
SCHOOL we have worked out a course 
of instruction that is both practical and 
