FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 16, 1907. 
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VALUE OF RIFLE PRACTICE. 
The quality of the Boer shooting was due en J 
tirely to the familiarity of their youth with the 
rifle. Among the republican ranks were to be 
tound many children of comparatively tender 
years, who shouldered their guns and fought 
through the campaign, side by side with their 
fathers and elder brothers, with remarkable 
steadiness and determination. Many a “Tommy 
Atkins” was sent to his last account by the hand 
of a youngster, whose height barely exceeded 
the length of the rifle he handled, and who by 
all theory should have been at home with his 
mother. Few commandos but included boys oi 
thirteen and fourteen years of age, who, in skill 
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equal and often the superior of their adult com- 
rcidcs 
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African boys, especially in the rural districts 
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by themselves, and by sheer dint of practice 
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distance, while among all ranks rifle practice is 
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The expertness of the Boer marksmen, anc 
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those who had. were quite incapable of long 
range shooting. 
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South African veldt (which renders correc 
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comer), and who practiced independent firing 
without any consideration of “form” or style 
Taking every kind of cover (for the Boer is 
born skirmisher), he was more than a match fo 
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