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FOREST AND STREAM 
[April i, 1911. 
SMOKELESS POWDER 
Again to the Fore 
At the New York Athletic Club’s 
Amateur Championship Tournament, 
March 22-23, L. S. German again de¬ 
monstrated 
The Regularity and Reliability of 
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In the previous shoot held by the New 
York Athletic Club Mr. German made 
High Score with 96 per cent. His 
record for this year was 91 per cent., the 
only score of 90 per cent, or better. 
You have a feeling of reliance when shooting 
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National Rifle Association Notes. 
The Interclub Rifle League is the first one of the 
series of indoor rifle shooting matches for the season of 
1911 to come to an end. From every standpoint, it has 
been a most successful tournament, and if all the clubs 
that were fortunate enough to get in the League, carry 
out their intention of being on hand next winter, it will 
undoubtedly be necessary to organize at least four 
leagues with about fifteen clubs in each league. More 
than this number of clubs is unwieldy, and extends the 
matches over too long a period, so that we can look 
forward to an Eastern League, Western League, Pacific 
Coast League, and probably a Southwest League next 
winter. 
The shoot-off between the Winchester Rod and Gun 
Club and the St. Paul Rifle and Pistol Association should 
be a crackerjack, and should be very close. It is quite 
probable that a large gallery will watch the shooting of 
each team. In addition to the regular N. R. A. judge, 
an extra witness has been appointed for this match. 
The Association’s annual report for 1910, which is being 
published by the War Department in connection with the 
annual report of the National Board for the Promotion 
of Rifle Practice, has been greatly delayed in advertis¬ 
ing for bids and making the necessary contracts which 
the War Department regulations call for. The book is 
now on the press, and under the terms of the contract 
is to be delivered April 10. The book will have over 200 
pages and 100 half-tone illustrations. 
Owing to the great expense entailed in getting it out 
the distribution will be limited and none will be sold. 
The executive committee of the National Rifle Asso¬ 
ciation have agreed upon the following distribution: 
One copy to each life and annual member, Adjutant- 
General and State Secretary; ten copies to each State 
Association; six copies to each affiliated regiment; four 
copies to each affiliated battalion; three copies to each 
affiliated company, troop or battery; four copies to each 
affiliated rifle club; three copies to each college club, 
and two copies to each school club. 
Affiliated organizations that have not already done so 
should furnish the N. R. A. with the names and ad¬ 
dresses of those officers to whom the book should be 
sent, under the above distribution. 
In case of civilian, college and schoolboy clubs, the 
report of officers for the current year is sufficient. Many 
clubs have not yet made their report of their officers for 
the current year, nor submitted a list of their members. 
Until these matters have been attended to, such clubs 
will not receive any reports or benefits for the year. 
Some little time ago arrangements were made with the 
Chief of Ordnance whereby N. R. A. rifle clubs and in¬ 
dividual members of the Association could purchase new 
Krag rifles from the Government arsenal at the cost oF 
$10. Under this arrangement a good many of these 
rifles were sold, but it was found that the cost of am¬ 
munition was quite a hardship, and representation was 
made to the Chief of Ordnance of the benefits that 
would accrue for making a special price on the am¬ 
munition for use in these rifles. Word has ju«t been 
received from the Chief of Ordnance, that under the 
same condition of sale as the rifle, the ammunition for 
same would hereafter be soM to N. R. A. rifle clubs and 
individual members for $15 per thousand rounds; the 
minimum amount of ammunition to be sold to be 200 
rounds. This concession is a most welcome one and 
ought to greatly stimulate rifle shooting among the 
clubs. It reduces their ammunition cost from nearly 3 
cents a shot to a cent and one-half. 
As soon as the League shooting.is out of the way the 
National Association expects to go ahead with its plan 
to build a model gallery range in the city of Washing¬ 
ton. Data of every description which might be used to 
advantage in such'a range is being gathered. 
Within a week or so the National Rifle Association will 
begin mailing out to its affiliated regiments a hanging 
colored poster covering the different features of the 
N. R. A. work as carried on by the regiments. A 
similar poster is being prepared to send to the civilian 
rifle clubs. The National Association within a very few 
weeks will also be ready to issue official score cards for 
use on outdoor ranges. These cards will be issued to 
civilian clubs and individual members, and are so ar¬ 
ranged that they can be adopted for use on any rifle 
range in the United States. 
The Association has been sending out a new circular 
to riflemen, urging them to become individual members 
of the National Rifle Association, and giving the follow¬ 
ing ten reasons why every rifleman in the United States 
should lend their support to the National Association 
and the work it is doing by becoming a member: _ 
1. You will receive a copy of “Rifle Shooting in the 
United States for 1910,” and thus keep in touch with 
what is going on in the rifle shooting world. The book 
contains a full report of all rifle shooting events for last 
year, and is finely illustrated. 
2. You will receive a copy of the joint program of 
the annual matches of the National Board for the Pro¬ 
motion of Rifle Practice, and the National Rifle Asso¬ 
ciation of America, with entry blanks, etc. 
3. You will be given an opportunity to qualify as a 
member of any international rifle team organized by the 
National Rifle Association. * 
4. You will be given an expert, sharpshooter, or 
marksman’s decoration for qualifying in any of the 
above classes under Special Course C, War Department. 
5. You will be eligible to buy a new Krag rifle from 
the Ordnance Department for $10. 
6 . You will get a reduction of $1 a year on a sub¬ 
scription to the shooting and military weekly. Arms and 
the Man. 
7. Yon will get special prices from nearly all of the 
leading firms dealine in arms, ammunition and rifle 
shooter's sunnlies. (See “Rifle Shooting in the L T nited 
States for 191C.”) 
8 . You will be welcomed at any rifle club or gallery 
or at any rifle range of any organization affiliated with 
the National Rifle Association on presentation of your 
member’s card. 
9. You will be allowed to compete in the national 
individual match and the national pistol match without 
