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'Rifle Range and Gallery . 
Fixtures. 
July 27-Aug. 1.—Wakefield, Mass.—New England Mili¬ 
tary Rifle Association. 
Aug. 10-13.—Camp Perry, O.—Ohio State Rifle Associa¬ 
tion. 
Aug. 14-20.—Camp Perry, O.—National Rifle Association. 
Aug. 21-27.—Camp Perry, O.—National Board for the 
Promotion of Rifle Practice. 
The Olympic Bisley. 
It is in many respects unfortunate that the spectacular 
and educational aspects of the shooting of the foreign 
teams is restricted to the comparatively limited assembly 
of the British public to be found at Bisley. When the 
weather is good there is a sprinkling of friends and 
others more or less directly interested, but the stormy 
and unsettled conditions of the past week have kept 
every one away. Britain, the home of long-range prac¬ 
tice, is a country of restricted space and compactly 
planned areas. As a natural consequence, rifle shooting 
practice is only indulged in by the few, and those few, 
unless they are very enthusiastic, get but little real prac¬ 
tice in the course of the year. Abroad, where spaces 
are less restricted, other conditions prevail. Short dis¬ 
tance practice is recognized at its proper value, and con¬ 
venience of access is considered of more importance 
than the extensiveness of a range much further distant. 
The conditions of the rifle and the cartridge have been 
adapted to the ranges employed, and a man becomes a 
shooter—it is immaterial what class of shooter, because 
everything follows when once a start has been made. 
The teams of foreign shooters are here to demonstrate 
their methods. Typical among the special competitions 
which have been organized under continental conditions 
is that at 300 meters. There is no particular magic 
about this distance, except that if one distance only 
were recognized for rifle practice, that distance would 
probably be 300yds. or 300 meters. The shooting is con¬ 
ducted standing, kneeling and prone. Each has its 
special features, both from the sporting and utilitarian 
standpoints, and the members of the foreign teams 
demonstrate in their own persons the hold such sport 
gains on men of all ages. The variety of rifles employed 
for the work equally displays the entrancing interest of 
the mechanical and theoretical sides of the pursuit of 
marksmanship. The receptive and appreciative attitude 
must be adopted toward all these matters. Long-range 
practice has created a limited band of very skillful shoot¬ 
ers, life-long specialists for the most part. Miniature 
shooting teaches, perhaps, less, but to an. infinitely larger 
number. The continental 300 meters system of shooting 
strikes a happy mean without introducing any of the 
supposed disadvantages inseparable from a compromise. 
Among incidental shooting, the work with the pistol 
is extremely interesting, again, because more elastic 
conditions widen the area to which appeal is made. 
Great as is the interest of revolver shooting, its natural 
place is to follow practice with the .22 pistol, otherwise 
the saloon pistol, to use a term which has ceased to be 
familiar. The benefit derived from the use of the smaller 
caliber is the power to practice in odd places and the 
avoidance of the recoil and report, both of which en¬ 
hance the difficulties of the initial stages. The familiarity, 
almost the contempt, with which the .22 pistol is re¬ 
garded is exemplified by the conduct of some of the 
foreign competitors at the 50yds. pistol range. To 
judge by the nonchalant air adopted, it is the most 
ordinary thing in the world for one shooter to stand 
fully exposed in the butts while 'his friends are shoot¬ 
ing. The favorite position is immediately adjoining the 
target, so that the finger may be laid on the spot struck 
by the last bullet. No doubt in theory it would be safer 
to stand within a foot of the revolver target at which 
Capt. Rankin is firing than, say, within a yard of the 
motor he is driving. Convention, however, ordains that 
shooting risks must be diminished to zero by the erec¬ 
tion of elaborate butts, while other dangers, in reality 
far greater, are ignored. While on the subject of pistol 
shooting it may be mentioned that the duelling contest 
with wax bullets at human opponents will take place in 
the Stadium next Monday. , 
The running deer shooting contest has been rendered 
doubly interesting by the introduction of a contest in 
which two shots must be fired during a single transit of 
the deer. Hitherto' the magazine sporting rifle has ousted 
the gunmaker’s double-barrel weapon, with all its elab¬ 
orate embellishments designed to aid true sporting con¬ 
ditions. Its special features had no place at the running 
deer, but now that two shots are required, the pre¬ 
eminence of two barrels compared with one is open to 
demonstration. The automatic might come in if it could 
fife a cartridge with sufficient velocity, but the double 
barrel is there ready, and it has already won the prize. 
Mr. Winans is the happy victor, having made 44 in the 
ties against 41 by Capt. Ranken. His rifle was made 
by Rigby to take a high velocity, light-weight, pointed 
bullet, which traverses the 110 yards range while the 
deer is covering about 16in. of its journey. Capt. 
Ranken used ordinary match rifle cartridges, which would 
increase the necessary lead by several inches. It was 
also apparent that he has not yet had an opportunity to 
study the new conditions as regards the timing of the 
two discharges. The first barrel is at present got off 
too late to allow for giving a proportionate share of at¬ 
tention to the second discharge. The competition is very 
sporting, and its repetition during the ordinary Bisley 
meeting should bring some of our best gunmakers for¬ 
ward with rifles on loan. High velocity, high recoil, and 
perfectly true barrels are the essentials to be met.' 
Individual competition at 1000yds., 20 shots in any 
position, with any rifle; highest possible 100. Scores: 
*Col J K Millner, U.K. 9S 
tK K V Casey, U.S.A.. 93 
JM Blood, U. K. 92 
R W Barnett, U.K.... 92 
W B Martin, U.S.A... 83 
A E Rogers, U.K.82 
P Colas, France. 82 
T F Elmatt, Canada... 82 
