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THE WEAPON OF THE HOUR. 
By Fred. O. Copeland. 
I F the children of Uncle Sam really have to 
come forward and shoot to kill, a good round 
per cent, of them will not be at a loss to know 
which end of the rifle to point. It is true that 
the army of sportsmen which each season goes 
into the autumn woods and the greater army of 
citizens which does not but in which the heredi¬ 
tary cunning of the trigger finger must lay dor¬ 
mant, would need real experience with the mili¬ 
tary rifle in order to make things seem unfriend¬ 
ly in the yonder trench. 
To this end the National Board for Promo¬ 
tion of Rifle Practice has sought within its means 
to familiarize the citizens of the land with the 
military rifle. During the first five months of 
this year 443 civilian rifle clubs, 7 college rifle 
clubs, 2 preparatory and military school rifle 
clubs, 31 high school rifle clubs, have been or¬ 
ganized, making, with the clubs previously or¬ 
ganized, 1,315 clubs. Every one of the forty- 
eight states except four has at least one club 
which falls in one of the above groups. 
A rifleman is developed in the following manner : 
“Slow Fire,” the target being marked after each 
shot and a spotter indicating the exact location 
of the hit. 
“Magazine Fire,” the target being exposed 30 
seconds. Five shots are fired during the ex¬ 
posure. If there are more than five shots on 
the target it is not recorded and another string 
is fired. The idea is to fire deliberately instead 
of rapidly. 
“Marksman Course” is fired at 200 yards, no 
rest being used. “Slow Fire”; 5 shots prone, 
5 kneeling, 5 squatting, 5 standing, and the same 
is gone through with in “magazine fire.” 
“Sharpshooter Course”: the arm, hand or rifle 
must touch a post or parapet. “Slow fire,” 
200 yards, 5 shots standing from post rest; 300 
yards, 5 shots kneeling from trench; 400 yards, 
5 shots sitting or squatting from trench; 500 
yards, 5 shots prone from trench, then a skirmish 
run of 20 shots. 
“The Skirmish Run” begins at 500 yards, 5 
shots being fired at each of the above distances 
and positions. The targets are exposed thirty 
seconds for each range and down and one half 
minutes for each advance which is at double, 
time. 
“Expert Rifleman Course” is fired at 500 yards, 
no rest being used. Five shots are fired “slow 
fire,” prone, kneeling, squatting and sitting. 
There are four strings of changing position fire 
of 5 shots each. 
“Changing Position Fire” is shot at the target 
up 5 seconds, down 5 seconds; one shot at each 
exposure, the sequency positions being: prone, 
kneeling, squatting, kneeling, and prone. 
The military rifle used by the United States 
Government at present is the Model 1903 Spring- 
field rifle chambered for the Model 1906 cart¬ 
ridge. It is a bolt action rifle, that is, a repeating 
action which works by means of a bolt on the 
right side which is lifted up and pulled back to 
eject the empty shell, and pushed forward and 
turned down again to feed in a new cartridge 
and lock the action. The magazine is a box 
underneath the bolt in which the cartridges are 
placed, either one at a time or from a clip, the 
clip being a brass strip which holds five cart¬ 
ridges by the grooves in their heads. When the 
atcion is pulled back, the extractor yanks the 
cartridge out of the chamber and as it reaches 
the rear position is kicked out of the action by 
the ejector. The bolt, in going forward, scrapes 
a new cartridge from the top of the magazine 
and pushes it ahead of it into the chamber. 
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