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FOREST ANI) STREAM 
March, 1918 
T. K. LEE 
Birmingham, Ala. 
Champion pistol shot 
of the U.S.A.—winner 
of several World's 
championships with 
rifle. Just began trap 
shooting in 1917 but 
was runner up for 
Alab a m a State 
Championship 
and won 
Alabama 
Sweep- 
stakes 
by 
I can make better 
scores with an 
ITHACA ” 
Any man can shoot an 
ITHACA better. 
Catalogue FREE 
Double hammerless 
guns, $29.00 up; 
single barrel trap 
guns, $85.00 up. 
Address 25 
ITHACA GUN 
CO. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Find the Best Load 
for Your Gun 
To find out what your gun, 
he it shotgun or rifle, will 
do with different loads and 
which is the load best 
suited to it for each par¬ 
ticular need, there is no 
way to get at the facts ex¬ 
cept to experiment and 
none so good as to load 
your own ammunition, and 
try it out. Why don’t you 
experiment? It’s a mighty 
interesting pastime — you 
get better results—and save 
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Ideal Manufacturing Company 
270 Meadow Street New Haven, Conn. 
25c 
Postpaid 
For 
all lubrication and 
polishing around the 
house, in the tool shed 
or afield with gun or rod. 
NYOIL 
In the New Perfection 
Pocket Package 
is a matchless combination. 
Sportsmen have kuown it for 
years. Dealers sell NYOIL at 
10c. and 25c. Send us the name 
of a live one who doesn’t sell 
NYOIL with other necessaries 
for sportsmen and we will send 
you a dandy, handy new can 
(screw top and screw tipf con¬ 
taining 3k' ounces postpaid 
for 25 cents. 
VH. F. NTE, New Bedford, Mass. 
Good Sport in the South 
On my large, old rice plantation ten miles from 
Georgetown, S. C., I have some of the finest shoot¬ 
ing for deer, turkeys, ducks, quail, rabbits, squirrels 
and snipe in this part of the South. The finest 
fishing, both fresh and salt water, on the coast. 
Private fresh water lake excellently stocked, few 
hundred feet from camp. Most exciting deer hunt¬ 
ing with well trained horses and hounds. A re¬ 
markably attractive locality for the visiting sports¬ 
men. I have a large plantation home overlooking 
the water and bungalows which I use as lodges for 
visiting sportsmen, and together with excellent 
Southern cooking I can promise you a long-to-be- 
remembered trip. 
Write at once and state when you can come, as 
I can take care of only a limited number and must 
know in advance. Send for booklet. 
F. E. JOHNSTONE, sofrrHCAROUNA 
A WINTER INSTRUC¬ 
TION COURSE 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNEY 
«|WIAN\ targets have been devised since 
the advent of rifled firearms, but 
fortunately few of them have survived. I 
say fortunately, for the most desirable 
thing about any target is that it shall repre¬ 
sent some standard design that is uniformly 
used by shooters throughout the country, 
and at standard distances. For only in this 
way can skill with the rifle be compared, 
and a record kept of the performances of 
different riflemen at different times and 
places. 
“What we want at present is more rifle¬ 
men to shoot at the targets we have; and 
anyone who endeavors to foist upon us 
new target designs I always feel inclined to 
regard almost as a malefactor.” 
Thus wrote Dr. W. G. Hudson exactly 
fifteen years ago and, while I am not one 
of those who refuse to correct an error 
because it has been sealed and blessed at 
Washington, I fully concur with the Doc¬ 
tor that “outlaw” targets should be avoided 
whenever possible; so I have laid out this 
instruction course under “standard” con¬ 
ditions. 
My experience as an instructor of small 
arms practice has taught me that the surest 
and quickest way to make a rifleman is to 
give the man a definite object to work for 
and graduate the instruction into successive 
steps, in order that each time a man comes 
out to shoot, he leaves with a sense of 
having accomplished something, of being 
at least one step nearer a practical degree 
of proficiency with his weapon. Upon this 
basic principle I evolved a series of instruc¬ 
tion courses that did away with desultory 
practice and left no opportunity for a man 
to tinker with his sights until he becomes 
bored with the game and disgruntled with 
himself. And by permitting a man to reach 
the top by a series of selective scores, the 
mere completing of the course as a whole 
did not rob it of its original interest; there 
is always the incentive to improve the rat¬ 
ing made by further shooting. When an 
instructor has created an interest in the 
game his work is only just started, he must 
sustain that interest, otherwise he fails 
utterly, regardless of his other qualifica¬ 
tions. 
A S to targets and ranges, all the firing is 
done on one type of target at one 
distance, the range used depending entirely 
upon the available facilities, and the shoot¬ 
ing may be done either indoors or outdoors 
as circumstances warrant. 
If only so feet can be obtained, use the 
standard fifty-foot gallery target prescribed 
by the National Rifle Association having a 
3/16 inch scoring bull counting “io” and a 
black sighting bull’s-eye of inches. At 
75 feet use the standard N. R. A. 25-yard 
Indoor League target having a half-inch 
ten-ring and a two-inch sighting bull. For 
fifty yards use.the standard N. R. A. small¬ 
bore target for that distance with a one- 
inch scoring bull, a three-inch sighting bull, 
and half-inch graduations. As my outfit 
have a hundred-yard, outdoor range 
equipped for winter work we use the stand¬ 
ard N. R. A. small-bore target which has 
a two-inch ten-ring, a six-inch sighting bull 
and one-inch graduations. 
These targets are made in proportion to 
the respective ranges used and one of the 
chief advantages of the proposed course is 
that clubs firing over different distances can 
make accurate comparisons of the relative 
skill displayed by their members. If your 
dealer can not furnish you with the targets 
needed, I would suggest you write me and 
I will see that you are supplied with them, 
and do not hesitate to consult me about any 
other matters that may trouble you. 
A man’s rating is based on ten selective 
scores of ten shots each, and all targets 
for “record” must be certified to by the 
Range Officer. No “sweetening” or “sugar¬ 
ing” of scores until a man has fired the 
entire course, although a reasonable number 
of sighting shots will be allowed at all 
times. In short, a man may shoot as much 
as he pleases until he obtains an aggregate 
score that suits him, as the purpose of the 
course is to encourage the shooter to per¬ 
fect himself in the basic principles of the 
game and this can only be accomplished by 
persistent and intelligent practice. And 
the posting of the scores in the range as 
soon as they are made, turns the firing into 
a continuous re-entry match and awakens 
the competitive spirit. 
The first part of the course consists of 
six ten-shot strings at Slow Fire in three 
different positions. Three strings fired 
from a rest at prone, sitting and standing, 
respectively. And three strings fired with¬ 
out a rest, one prone, one sitting and one 
standing. Sixty shots in all. 
Rapid Fire calls for ten shots in two 
minutes when a single shot rifle is used, 
or ten shots in one minute with a repeater, 
no marking until the string is completed. 
Two strings from a rest, one prone and 
one sitting. Two strings without a rest, 
one prone and one sitting. Forty shots 
for record. 
As the scoring bull counts “10,” the en¬ 
tire hundred shots make a possible aggre¬ 
gate score of one thousand points and 
the ratings are as follows: Expert, 850; 
sharpshooter, 750; marksman, 650. 
THE STRIKING ENERGY OF FALL¬ 
ING BULLETS 
C. V. Q., of Portland, Ore., asks in the 
January issue: “Where may I obtain data 
showing the striking power of bullets 
when they return to earth after having 
been fired straight up in the air?” 
Herewith is a solution of the problem: 
The terminal velocity of a falling pro¬ 
jectile is that velocity at the time when the 
resistance of the air upon it equals its 
weight. The velocity of a falling bullet 
