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National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice. 
Washington, 13. C., March 6. — Great interest is being 
attracted throughout the country by the Hiree-cornered 
niatch between England, Australia and America, for the 
indoor championship of the world with miniature rifles. 
This match was the result of an invitation from the So¬ 
ciety of Miniature Rifle Clubs, of Great Britain, to the 
National Rifle Association of America, and a similar as¬ 
sociation in Australia. The competition will be held 
during the week beginning April 19, and each contesting 
country will be represented by fifty-of its best marks¬ 
men. The work of selecting the American team is now 
in progress, and during the week of March 22 the tryouts, 
will take place on the local ranges. Most indoor shoot¬ 
ing in this country is at 50ft.. and as the international 
match is to be at 75ft., considerable practice is going on 
among marksmen who hope to make the team. The tar-, 
gets to he used are circular, with a counting hull ^^in.,^ 
counting 10, sighting hull lin. counting 9, and eight con¬ 
centric circles, y^\n. apart, counting 'from 8 down to 1. 
The National Rifle Association is furnishing duplicate 
targets for practice to all clubs wishing to enter candi¬ 
dates for the team. When the tryouts are held a repre¬ 
sentative of the National Rifle Association will be 
present to certify to the scores made by the contestants 
and the men making the fifty highest scores will rep¬ 
resent the United States. In the niatch the shooting 
will take place on the local ranges. Targets have been 
sent to the N. R. A. from England, properly counter¬ 
signed. They will be distributed to the contestants, and 
when returned, will be verified and sent to England. The 
tryout targets must be in the hands of the secretary of 
the N. R. A. not later than noon on April 5. 
In this match there will be 30 shots per man, in 
strings of five. The conditions are verv liberal, admitting 
of any position, any rifle of not over .230 caliber, and any 
sights not containing glass. The Americans who shoot 
principally off-hand at this distance would have pre¬ 
ferred that at least a portion of the shots should have 
been fired from the shoulder, but of course the con¬ 
ditions suggested are agreeable. The Society of Minia¬ 
ture Rifle Clubs has obtained a handsome trophy for the 
match, which will be held for one year by the winning 
country, and then competed for again, as this will now 
be .an annual event. 
Some time after April 15 there will take place the 
most extensive and important test of ammunition ever 
held in this country. For this purpose the Winchester 
Repeating Arms Company, the Union ^letallic Cartridge 
Company, and the United States Cartridge Company are 
engaged in manufacturing a million rounds of ammuni¬ 
tion for the U. S. rifle. A similar quantity is being man¬ 
ufactured by the Ordnance Department of the U. S, 
Army, and when the test is made a certain quantity will 
be taken from each lot and tested to determine which is 
the best. The ammunition which is given the palm will 
then be held subject to requisition from the State author¬ 
ities and from the Army, Navv, and Marine corps,- and 
will he used for practice for the teams which will take 
part in the great national matches at Camp Perry, 
Ohio, in August next. The Ordnance Department will 
hold out 100,000 round’s of the choicest ammunition for 
the matches themselves, and no other ammunition will 
be permitted to be used in them. This restriction ap¬ 
plies only to the matches under the supervision of the 
National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, and \yill 
not affect the rules for ammunition in the National Rifle 
Association matches or those of the Ohio State Rifle 
Association, which will be held about the same time. 
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