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as head of Class “C.” The names of those who have 
qualified to date, and who are entitled to shoot off in 
the finals for first and second prize are: _ 
Class “A”—Dr. W. C. Heisey; Dr. Ord; G. E. 
Painter; Dr. Aber; J. F. Calhoun; Stanley Granger. 
Class “B”—A. H. Rigsby; Harry Brooks; J. W. Wil¬ 
son; T. Meredith. 
Class “C”—J. T. Newlin; J. C. Wampler, Sr.; Geo. 
Hitchens; Jas. Simpson; J. A. C. Sword; R. Taylor; 
A. L. Goldstrom; Mrs. Ashton. 
In this Class System Shoot there will be one more 
event for qualifying, namely Saturday, October 24, and 
on that day finals will be shot off for first and second 
prizes in each class. 
The Club shoot which is shot in with the regular 
events, was won by J. W. Wilson, with a score of 43, 
all of the rest of the Club members shooting, tieing 
with their handicaps, with an even score of 42. In the 
practice events preceding the shoot the results were as 
follows: 
Out of a possible 25 birds. 
FIRST EVENT. 
Hickman . 2z 
Granger . 19 
Cornelius . to 
Wilson . 15 
SECOND EVENT. 
Dr. Aber . 20 
Wilson . 18 
Willis out of 10 birds shot 9; Heisey shooting a 16- 
gauge gun got 8 out of 15. 
During part of the events Dr. Heisey and Sword shot 
16-gauge guns from the 14 and 12 yard line, respectively. 
The full scores of the day were as follows: 
J. F. Calhoun . 23 
Dr. Aber . 24 
Ad. Hickman . 22 
S. ' Granger . 21 
Dr. Heisey . 17 
R. Bradshaw . 16 
Dr. Feeley . 
J. A. C. Sword . IS 
Geo. Haberman . 18 
CLUB SHOOT. 
J. W. Wilson . 
W. A. Cornelius . 
J. A. C. Sword . 
Dr. W. C. Heisey . 
As stated above the next 
final of this series will be shot off Saturday October 24, 
the event beginning on the arrival of the 1 o’clock 
Scott Haven car instead of the 2 o’clock car and two 
traps will be used so that the event may be pulled off 
without any possibility of delay. 
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of FOREST AND STREAM, published weekly at New 
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York. 
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holders, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount 
of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: 
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CHARLES L. WISE, Treasurer. 
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October, 1914. 
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New York County 1109, 
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HOW TO START A RIFLE CLUB. 
RANGE MANAGEMENT. 
In cases where the Club can not afford a paid at¬ 
tendant the work of changing targets and controlling 
shooting must be performed voluntarily by members. 
Only those of considerable experience and an unselfish 
disposition are suitable for this work, and while on duty 
should be invested with supreme and unquestionable 
authority. Most Clubs will possess members whose in¬ 
terest in its welfare will induce them to give up an 
hour occasionally to range officers’ duties and no diffi¬ 
culty should be encountered in finding enough members 
to share this work so that the willingness of those who 
will serve is not over taxed. 
MUCH DEPENDS UPON ACTIVE RANGE 
OFFICER. 
The Committee should decide upon what days and 
hours the range should be open. The range officer on 
duty will change targets, stopping the firing when neces¬ 
sary for that purpose, allot targets to members wish¬ 
ing to shoot, sell ammunition, competition tickets, etc., 
and see that the shooting is properly conducted with 
due regard to the safety of members and the public. A 
small board to which is fixed a pad of paper ruled into 
square spaces numbered correspondingly with the num¬ 
bers of the targets will be found a very useful accessory 
at each firing point for allotting targets and identifying 
them with the shooter after they have been fired at. 
When a target is allotted to a member his name and 
the name of the Competition (or “practice” if the 
member is only practicing) is written in the square 
corresponding to his target number. 
When it is necessary to change targets the target 
frames will be taken to the butt and the old ones with 
the targets that have been fired at still on them will be 
brought back to the firing point. The members’ com¬ 
petition tickets will then be stuck on the targets, after 
which targets will be removed and new ones substituted, 
the frames will then be ready for the next change. This 
method, with the help of a few extra target frames when 
the attendance is heavy will avoid all delay in target 
changing. We will gladly supply Clubs with paper tar¬ 
gets gratis upon request. 
SCORING TARGETS. 
Targets which have been fired at in competition or 
matches should be at once counted and recorded by the 
Range officers and should not first be handled by the 
competitors who have made them. If the competitor 
does not think the range officer has given the proper 
count to his target, the target should be marked “pro¬ 
tested.” When all competitions are finished “protested 
targets” can be finally scored by a committee. Where 
it is impracticable or inconvenient to count the targets 
at once they should be placed in a locked box—a box 
having a slot cut in the lid or side answering very well 
for the purpose. Without great care competition tar¬ 
gets invariably get mislaid and this causes grumbling 
and dissatisfaction. 
HANDICAPPING AND STATISTICS. 
One of the most important items of successful club 
management is handicapping. Nature has failed to en¬ 
dow us all with equal ability and no amount of effort 
on the part of some men will enable them to equal the 
performance of others, consequently to make it possible 
for these to compete with any hope of success it is 
necessary to establish equality artificially. This may be 
accomplished by a process known as handicapping. 
Whatever system may be adopted, the fundamental 
basis of all handicapping is to first ascertain the rela¬ 
tive ability of members and then to add such a number 
of points as shall bring them all to one level. This is 
easy with members who shoot often but difficult in the 
case of casual shooters and novices, consequently the 
handicappers or handicapping Committee as the case 
may be should, after allotting a handicap, be invested 
with power to alter it at any moment prior to the com¬ 
mencement of any Competition where an improvement 
or otherwise indicates the necessity. Handicaps may 
be allotted on the basis of a very few trial targets the 
grouping on which will not fail to convey some estimate 
of the shooters’ abilitv to the handicapper. 
A GOOD HANDICAPPING SYSTEM. 
With the decimal system of scoring with 10 points as 
the highest value of a hit, a o-ood method of allotting 
handicaps is to regard the member’s ability as expressed 
by the average value per hit of his shots and allot him 
the difference between this average and to as handicap 
per shot, multiplying this handicap by the number of 
shots in the competition. For example A in a few tar- 
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