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Vincent Shield Match at Creedmoor. 
In the rifle match between teams from the Queen’s 
Westminster Regiment of London and the Seventh 
Regiment of New York city, at the state range at Creed¬ 
moor, Long Island, October 2 and 3, the English marks¬ 
men were defeated by 60 points; and the New York 
marksmen alsoi won both of the individual prizes 
involved. 
The scores at the end of the first day. when the 500 
and 600 yard stages had been shot, showed the Seventh 
marksmen in the lead with a margin of 34 points, or 833 
to 799 for the visiting team. High man at 500yds. was 
Capt. McAlpin, of the Seventh, with 73, while Sergt. 
Myer, reserve, had 72. At 600yds. marksman Shep¬ 
pard, of the visiting team, tied Sergt. Short, of the 
home team, each with 72 points. The attendance was 
very slim. 
On the second day two or three thousand persons were 
on the grounds. The wind was. raw and unsteady and 
the sky overcast. At the first stage, SOOyds., the English 
team tied the New Yorkers, but at 1,000yds., the 
Seventh’s team scored 3 points more than at 800, and 
won easily, despite the belief that at the longer ranges 
the visitors were stronger than at the mid ranges. 
In the individual matches the scores were closer. For 
the Landon cup, Sergt. W. B. Short was high man with 
278 points, but Corp. Fulton, of the visiting team, had a 
chance to beat his score. He needed 71, but made a 
3 to start with; then, still with a chance to win, he 
scored two 5s and two 4s, then ran nine bullseyes; and 
with a bull to win or a 4 to tie, he scored a magpie and 
lost. Each man fired two sighters at each range, and a 
score of 15 shots. 
The next match will be shot at Bisley, England, in 
1908. Sir Howard Vincent, donor of the shield, said 
his rpgiment would not challenge the victors for a 
match next year, because of the expense of a trip to 
England. The results follow: 
Seventh Regiment Team. 
. ,-Yards- N 
Sergt Short . 
500 
.69 
600 
72 
800 
67 
1000 
70 
Total. 
278 
Corp Taylor . 
.71 
69 
69 
68 
277 
Sergt O'Connor ... 
.68 
68 
67 
68 
271 
Capt McAlpin .... 
.73 
66 
68 
63 
270 
Lieut Crall . 
.69 
65 
70 
73 
277 
Pvt Beach . 
.72 
71 
65 
67 
275 
422 
411 
406 
409 
1648 
Sergt Fowler . 
Reserves. 
.66 67 
64 
64 
261 
Pvt Meyer . 
.72 
64 
69 
64 
269 
530 
Queen’s Westminster Team. 
Marksman Sheppard.. 
...72 
59 
66 
63 
260 
Sergt Tyrell. 
...64 
62 
65 
62 
253 
Marksman Halls. 
...66 
65 
69 
67 
267 
Marksman Gill. 
...71 
70 
70 
60 
271 
Corp Fulton . 
...69 
71 
68 
69 
277 
Marksman Thompson. 
...64 
66 
68 
62 
260 
406 393 
Reserves. 
406 
383 
1588 
Marksman Stocker ... 
.. .66 
63 
56 
50 
235 
Marksman Roche . 
...68 
69 
70 
56 
263 
498 
Landon cup, for the highest combined score: 
Sergt W. B. Short, Seventh Regiment— 
500yds.5 4455555554444 5—69 
600yds.5 5554555455555 4—72 
800yds.4 3555455355445 5—67 
1000yds.5 4455355555555 4—70—278 
Appleton cup, for the highest score made by a reserve 
man 
Private H. C. Meyer, Seventh Regiment— 
500yds.5 5545555554455 5—72 
600yds.4 4543455544345 5—64 
SOOyds.3 4545555545554 5—69 
1000yds.3 5 5 5 4 3 5 5 5 5 4 5 0 5 5—64—269 
The Trajectory of Sporting Rifles. 
Although the .303 rifle has been used as a sporting 
weapon for well over ten years, and although great 
emphasis has been laid on the importance of its rapid 
manipulation at short ranges for military purposes, de¬ 
tails of its trajectory are singularly vague and incomplete. 
The sparsity of up-to-date tables of trajectory implies a 
great difficulty in their production; yet the arithmetic 
involved would lie well within the reach of the ordinary 
boy of twelve years of age. In the Text Book of Small 
Arms three values only are given up to a distance of 
300yds., and these assume a muzzle velocity of 2037 f. s., 
and a value for “it” of .8, whereas other portions of the 
book show that 2060 f. s. is the standard figure for 
velocity, and .78 for the value of n. Metford’s table of 
angles, reproduced on page 275, is for the same velocity, 
and fits in with the same value of n. To produce a con¬ 
sistent curve the values are given to nine decimals of a 
minute of angle. The pity is that equal consistency was 
not observed in regard to the underlying data. Gibbs, 
the well-known rifle maker, also issues a table of angles; 
but these, again, are only approximate, as the weight of 
bullet assumed is 200 grains instead of the present 215 
grains. The angles are nevertheless the same as Met¬ 
ford’s. Even when a table of angles is obtained, the 
trajectory table has yet to be constructed. Possibly one 
of the reasons why tables of trajectory are so seldom 
issued Is that a certain amount of responsibility rests on 
the shoulders of those who would produce something 
new to take the place of old and tested material. More 
than this, trajectory tables have a merely indirect rela¬ 
tion to practical marksmanship as at present carried on. 
Rifles are certainly sighted on a basis of calculated 
“drops,” but even so, the Bisley marksman knows by ex¬ 
perience that it is unwise to place too much reliance 
on the fixed markings of a new rifle. At any rate, know¬ 
ing that the 800yds. target is relatively about the size of 
a large visiting card when viewed from 25yds. distance, 
he prefers to work up to the long ranges by a succes¬ 
sion of stages. He first finds the sight adjustment for 
the 200yds. target, where the area is relatively large, and 
the possibility of serious error small. This he regards 
as a kind of zero adjustment, and he knows what 
elevation to add to hit the 500 and 600yds. targets. With 
the information so gained, he can proceed to 800yds. 
with reasonable certainty of hitting the target. 
The sporting rifle shot is not perplexed by these de¬ 
tails. Each rifle is separately sighted for each distance, 
and a very little private practice suffices to establish 
the amount of foresight which must be seen to ensure 
hitting the mark at the various sporting distances. Tar¬ 
get shooting differs from sporting conditions of marks¬ 
manship by the circumstance that in the one case dis¬ 
tances are prolonged and hits are assured by previous 
experience of the same rifle and ammunition at the same 
measured range, whereas with the sporting rifle the dis¬ 
tances, while short, are only approximately measured by 
estimation before taking a shot. The target shooter is 
allowed a sighting shot; the game shooter must usually 
abide by the first result. In so far that the soldier has 
been urged of late years to familiarize himself with the 
conditions of snap shooting at short ranges—say up to 
the sporting limit of distance of 300yds.—it is curious 
that definite measurements of trajectory Npp to this 
range have as yet not been supplied for his guidance. 
Sporting conditions of shooting seldom allow for adjust¬ 
ing the sight to a nicety before taking a shot. A fixed 
adjustment must, as a rule, be settled beforehand, and 
if the judgment suggests that a chance which presents 
itself represents more or less than the fixed sighting 
distance the shooter must know where to aim, above or 
below, to increase the probability of a hit. It is all very 
well to assume a flat trajectory for so many hundred 
yards from the muzzle of the rifle, and to trust for a hit 
to a ricochet from the ground; but this kind of approxi¬ 
mation fails to salHsfy the shooter who is good to hit a 
dinner plate up to 300yds., given an approximate idea-of 
the distance. 
With no desire to claim greater merit than is involved 
in the ability to perform ordinary arithmetic, we put 
forward a table giving thirty-six trajectory measurements 
for the first 300yds. of the flight of a .303 bullet. The 
resulting table will doubtless be of great interest to 
all deer stalkers and big-game shooters, because express 
rifles as a rule give similar ballistics to those of the 
service cartridge. The bullets are adjusted to the same 
density, and the velocity of most of the cartridges in 
