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penalty for breach of this rule is the disallowance of the 
entire score on the target touched. 
TIES. 
35. In individual competitions for prizes in kind, and 
in any competitions specified by the committee ties 
will be decided by refiring the specified string at the 
longest range included in the competition with such 
time limit or proposition thereof as was required by the 
conditions of the competition. 
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Subject to the foregoing ties will be decided as follows: 
36. In individual and team competition for prizes. 
(a) if at more than one distance by the highest 
score at the longest distance. 
(b) if still a tie, by the fewest hits of the lowest 
value. 
(c) if still a tie, by shooting off at the longest dis¬ 
tance. 
In handicap competitions subject to rule 35 ties will 
he decided in favor of the competitor receiving the 
smallest handicap, and if still a tie by the application 
of rule 36. 
HITTING THE WRONG TARGET. 
37. A competitor hitting the wrong target shall lose 
the hit. 
38. Any competitor deliberately firing at another com¬ 
petitor’s target shall be disqualified and further subject 
to such penalties, including dismissal from the club, 
as the committees may decide. 
MISCONDUCT. 
39. Any member guilty of any dangerous, dishonest or 
discreditable conduct may be at once suspended from all 
the rights and privileges of the club by the range officer 
and will be further subject to such penalties including 
dismissal from the club as the committee may decide. 
SPOTTING. 
40. In individual competitions at bullseye targets the 
competitors may use a telescope. 
41. In individual competitions at man targets spotting 
is not allowed. 
42. In team competitions one spotter or coach per 
team, who may use a telescope, is allowed. 
DEFECTIVE RIFLES AND AMMUNITION. 
43. In cases of defective cartridges where the bullet 
does not leave the barrel another cartridge may, with 
the permission of the range officer be used, but no other 
defect will be recognized. 
44. In competitions with a time limit no extra time 
will be allowed in case of miss fires but the competitor 
may fire another shot if he is able within the time. 
45. Should a rifle break, jam or otherwise become de¬ 
fective the range officer may permit the competitor to 
finish his shoot with another rifle, but no extra time 
will be allowed. 
General Hints. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
New members should not be allowed to wander around 
and find out for themselves. Rather it should be the 
business particularly of committee men to take them in 
hand and explain the usual method adapted for loaning 
rifles, obtaining ammunition, targets, and enjoying the 
facilities offered by the club generally.. If the new mem¬ 
bers are novices they should be handed over to some ex¬ 
pert and instructed in the rudiments of loading, hand¬ 
ling and firing their rifles without danger to others. 
There should be no difficulty in any club in finding a 
few members willing to devote a few minutes occasion¬ 
ally to giving a novice a start. 
The secretary is a most important factor in the pros¬ 
perity of the club and good energetic secretaries are 
rare. Members should bear in mind that the secretary 
gets much work for little thanks and exercise forbear¬ 
ance when everything is not quite right. If the right 
man is found for the job. encourage and help him in 
every way and don’t forget the practical encouragement 
attaching to a little honorarium when funds afford it. 
On the other hand if the secretary is not up to or 
neglects his work don’t hesitate to get another. A few 
months neglect works incalculable harm, while slackness 
in the secretary usually leads to slackness all around, 
and it is not long before irregularities in cash and am¬ 
munition occur. 
CASH AND AMMUNITION. 
A sub-committee should be appointed to check the 
cash taken against ammunition sold and should check 
the stock of ammunition regularly at least once a month. 
A leak in ammunition exceeding 1 per cent, demands 
instant investigation. If a paid range attendant is em¬ 
ployed the cash he takes should be handed over weekly. 
LIGHTING AND ECONOMY. 
A good deal of electricity and gas can be saved by 
having the butt lighting switches at the firing points 
with 2 or 3 circuits for each butt. 
Empty cases and lead are quite an asset and should 
be collected regularly. If the attendant is given an in¬ 
terest in the proceeds this is generally more efficiently 
done. 
A great many targets may be saved if a few gummed 
patches are available for repairing those that have been 
used for sighting in and have only a shot or two on 
them. A good way to get this attended to is provide 
the attendant with the patches and pay him a small sum 
per 100 for the targets when patched. 
SWINDLING. 
Riflemen are reasonably honest and should be im¬ 
plicitly trusted to adhere to the rules of all competi¬ 
tions, _ but should any irregularity however small be 
committed the honor of the club demands that the mat¬ 
ter be investigated by the committee and the member 
if guilty dealt with rigorously without fear or favor. 
Rifle shooting is a clean sport and it is the first busi¬ 
ness of riflemen to keep it clean. 
LADIES’ AND BOY’S. 
Small bore shooting is quite a good sport for ladies 
and many become very good shoots; moreover their pres¬ 
ence among collections of men, usually exercises a re¬ 
straining and refining influence. There is no reason 
why a club should not admit lady members. It is a 
great help to ladies to shoot sitting with their elbows 
resting on a table. 
COUNTING TARGETS. 
Be liberal in counting targets otherwise there will 
soon be trouble. When reasonable doubt exists, award 
the shooter the benefit of it. On the other hand don’t 
decide an important competition on a doubtful hit, 
when scores including some doubtful hits are very close, 
call it a tie and shoot off. 
COMPETITIONS. 
Use gummed back numbered tickets for every com¬ 
petition and stick these on the tickets preferably be¬ 
fore, but otherwise immediately after they are shot at. 
These tickets should bear the name of the competition, 
the name of the competitor, the date and target num¬ 
ber and its own serial number, thus: 
WASHINGTON RIFLE CLUB. 
WEEKLY HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES 
NAME . 
DATE. Target No. 
Different colors for different competitions save trouble 
and mistakes. 
Keep a proper competition record book, and post a 
record of the names and scores of the winners on 
the pavilion as soon as possible after the completion 
of the competitions. 
Draw club vouchers for the value of all prizes im¬ 
mediately they are won and leave them witn the at¬ 
tendant for collection by the winner. Any delay -in 
these matters invariably causes great dissatisfaction. 
Club prize vouchers should be accepted by the club 
in payment for anything up to their value, or cashed by 
the attendant if required by members. 
AMMUNITION AND RIFLES ADAPTED TO 
SHORT RANGE TARGET SHOOTING. 
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS. 
The essential requirements of the ideal cartridge for 
rifle club purposes are that it should be inexpensive, 
accurate, and of low energy, features which at the 
moment are combined to a greater degree in the .22 
rim fire long rifle cartridge than in any _ other. 
This cartridge has an externally lubricated bullet 
weighing 40 grains with a muezie velocity of about 
1,000 f. s. muzzle energy of about 90 ft. Ib. and an ex¬ 
treme range of about 1,350 yards. 
The reliability and accuracy of such good examples 
of this ammunition as the .22 Long Rifle Lesmok manu¬ 
factured by the Remington Arms Union Metallic Car¬ 
tridge Company is not exceeded by any other cartridge 
however much larger or more expensive up to and 
including 100 yards, while at 200 yards it is very diffi¬ 
cult to beat. 
The standard of accuracy attained in manufacture 
is such that when fired from a suitable rifle in a machine 
rest at 100 yards a three inch ring will include all 
the hits while over 90 per cent, will be covered by a 
2 inch ring. At twenty-five yards and fifty yards one- 
COMPETITION 
date '9'Tf . - 
WEATHER . 
NO. 
NAMES 
SCORE 
TOTAL 
NET 
SCORE 
HANDICAP 
TOTAL 
GROSS 
SCORE 
Z5 
YDS. 
50 
YDS. 
100 
YDS. 
/ 
<77 
93 
AS<2 
/8 
320 
2 
89 
87 
3L7S 
23 
399 
3 
<7h 
9S- 
<?S- 
3186 
12 
398 
9 
89 
86 
8' 
336 
32 
398 
cT 
/20 
9(e> 
93 
289 
9 
398 
6 
ti 
86 
XV- 
3S7 
S9 
29b 
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^T"~totals 
Sb$ 
698 
S32 
169-8- 
199 
1789 
general averages 
nu 
to 
8SU 
27V-. /6 
2-9 
<298.76 
Card Record for General Averages. 
