Oct. 28, 1911.1 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
639 
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N. K. A. Notes. 
OF INTEREST TO INDOOR SHOOTERS. 
Washington, D. C., Oct. 12.—At a meeting of the 
executive committee, held today, important action was 
taken of great interest to gallery shooters. It was de¬ 
cided to adopt a qualification code for indoor work and 
a decoration was adopted in the form of a watch fob 
for issue to members who made the qualifying score. 
The conditions as laid down call for ten shots stand¬ 
ing and ten shots prone at 75 feet on the N. R. A. 
gallery target, one to ten count, using a .22 caliber rifle 
with sights other than telescopic. 
Quualifying scores in the two classes will consist as 
follows: Marksman qualification, 80 standing, 85 prone; 
sharpshooter qualification, 90 standing, 95 prone. 
Those who qualify as marksman will receive a fob. the 
medallion and bar being of bronze; the sharpshooter's 
fob will be of silver. The medallion contains the in¬ 
scription, “Proficiency in indoor rifle shooting,” and the 
ribbon bar the word “Marksman” or "Sharpshooter,” as 
the case may be, and the year. 
It is planned to give a complete fob the first year and 
every subsequent qualification a ribbon bar. For the 
tenth year the ribbon bar will be of gold. This is an 
extremely handsome and useful prize, and there is no 
doubt that a large per cent, of the devotees of indoor 
rifle shooting will strive to win one of them. 
The shooting for qualification must be done on the 
official target issued for the purpose by the National 
Rifle Association. All shooting must be done in the 
presence of two witnesses. Both members of the Na¬ 
tional Rifle Association and member of affiliated organi¬ 
zations will be eligible to compete. 
SERVICE RIFLE IN THE WOODS. 
A surprisingly large number of National Rifle Associa¬ 
tion members have provided themselves with the latest 
model Army rifle this fall for use in big-game hunting. 
Many letters have reached the office of the association 
from these members, telling of the marvelous efficiency 
of this rifle as a game getter, and the great advantage 
in having a rifle with an absolute flat trajectory up to 
400yds., and throwing a bullet which, apparently, has an 
explosive effect after entering the animal. Seldom more 
than one hit is ever required, and with the result of an 
exceedingly small portion of wounded animals escaping. 
The government is to be congratulated upon being the 
possessor of such an all-round good arm—an arm which 
has already won all of the international championships 
that are laying around loose, and which now bids fair 
to lead the strictly hunting rifles at their own game. 
INTERCLUB INDOOR MATCHES. 
There will soon be issued from the office of the asso¬ 
ciation a circular letter to all the affiliated civilian rifle 
clubs looking to the organization of the indoor leagues 
for the indoor season’s work. 
Present indications are that such a large number of 
clubs will enter these popular matches, that it will be 
necessary to have at least three leagues. Just how to 
divide these clubs is a problem, as there probably will 
be at least twenty clubs east of the Mississippi River 
and fifteen or more west of the river. Later it may be 
possible to organize a league in each geographical sec¬ 
tion of the country. This would result in a battle royal 
between the winning clubs of each league for the cham¬ 
pionship. 
At the close of the league shooting last spring sug¬ 
gestions were invited from all the clubs as to desired 
changes in the rules governing the matches, with the 
result that more than two-thirds of the clubs were satis¬ 
fied with the present conditions, so that in all probabil¬ 
ities no change will be made, with the exception that the 
making of the weekly reports will be put up to the 
club secretary instead of the judge. 
ISSUE OF N. R. A. MEDALS. 
A circular letter has recently been sent to all affiliated 
organizations that have not made reports of competitions 
for the medal presented by the association, calling their 
attention to this medal and inquiring if the same was 
desired, with the result that many organizations who had 
■psuvertently overlooked this prize offer of the National 
wine Association hustled to hold a competition for the 
medal, as well as for the marksman, sharpshooter and 
expert decorations now issued by the association. 
Secretary Stimson as a Marksman. 
Police Commissioner Waldo of New York, is not 
, c °nly map behind the man behind the gun who up¬ 
holds the dignity of his position by showing those in 
Ills department that shooting at a top-notch clip is his game. 
Just see what Secretary Stimson did: 
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 20.—Secretary of War Stimson 
to-day astonished the army by his skill at target firing. 
He. and Major-General Wood spent, the day on the 
military reservation at Leon Springs, twenty-two miles 
from here, where the Seventeenth Infantry and a bat¬ 
talion of the Twenty-second Infantry are at target 
practice. 
.Capt. George M. Bomford coaxed the Secretary to try 
his hand with an army rifle. What might be called the 
post-graduate course in marksmanship is the firing at 
bobbing targets. These targets are silhouettes in the 
form of men. They rise from a trench and remain in 
view only five seconds. They are painted olive drab 
and are difficult to see at ranges of 500 and GOOyds. The 
Secretary’s first shot plowed up the dirt near one of the 
targets. The four other shots were in rapid succession. 
The red flags went up. indicating that two targets had 
been hit at 500vds. Then he acepted congratulations. 
He learned to shoot as a member of Squadron A, the 
crack New York organziation. 
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