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FOREST AND S T R E A M 
September, 191? 
D OESN’T take long for old- 
timers of the woods to get 
set for lunch or supper. And 
nowadays, in their simple, satis¬ 
fying spreads, you will most often 
see the open jar of Beech-Nut 
Peanut Butter. 
These old-timers, in carrying 
Beech-Nut, know that the little 
space it occupies in the kit is 
more than compensated by the 
nourishment it yields. For Beech- 
Nut Peanut Butter contains three 
times the food value of steak, four 
times that of eggs. 
Then the flavor —a blend of best 
Virginia and Spanish peanuts, roasted, 
salted, and crushed to smooth butter. 
For your next trip, get Beech-Nut 
Peanut Butter. From your dealer or 
outfitter. 
BeediNut 
Peanut Butter 
Beech-Nut Packujg Company 
CANAJOHARIE, N. Y. 
“Foods of Finest Flavor” 
THE “UNITED” CAMP GRID 
The Grid that will not sag or warp 
Electrically welded joints and reinforced frame. 
Manufactured by 
UNITED STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 
Dept. M. Battle Creek, Mich., U.S. A. 
Makers of 
Simplex and Du¬ 
plex Camp Grids, 
Meat Broilers, Po¬ 
tato Bakers and 
other CampUtensils 
THE NEW HUN TARGET 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNFY 
I N the days “befo’ the war” when rifle 
shooting was merely a sport even 
among military organizations, folks 
were content to gauge a man’s skill in 
pointing the grooved tube by his ability 
to place his shots in or about a certain 
circular black spot at a given distance. 
It was all a matter of deviation from the 
center of the bull’s-eye. Whether the 
direction of the error was up or down, 
right or left, did not make an iota of dif¬ 
ference, the 
values award¬ 
ed were always 
the same. Take 
the Army’s A 
Target for in¬ 
stance: The 
bull’s-eye, 
counting 5 
points, is 8 
inches in di¬ 
ameter, about 
the size of a 
man’s face, but 
the next ring, 
counting 4, 
measures 2 6 
inches in di¬ 
ameter, the 3- 
ring 46 inches, 
and outside of 
that a 4 by 12- 
foot rectangle 
counting 2 
points. This 
target was de- 
veloped at 
Creedmoor in 
the early 70’s 
and I mention 
it in detail be- 
The Hun Target 
The target, as shown above, is a % reduction—12*4 
cause “ it has yards = 100 yards—25 = 200. Clip this and try it 
been in contin- out * n the back yard at these ranges 
Copyright 1918, by the Essex School of Musketry. 
uous use since 
that time for shooting at 200 and 300 
yards, having recorded more shots than all 
the other targets put together, also it is 
still a prime favorite on the ranges in the 
present training camps for the National 
Army, where it is largely used for shooting 
at 100 yards. Skill in marksmanship is 
based on confidence and confidence is 
founded on success. This makes it ad¬ 
visable to start the tyro off under condi¬ 
tions that are sufficiently easy to permit 
him to make a creditable score and so 
prepare him for more difficult shooting. 
In this respect the A Target is doing 
yeoman service, but it contains one glar¬ 
ing defect, it utterly ignores the great 
fundamental principle of all battle firing: 
A low shot is a potential hit, a high shot 
is a total loss. 
The soldier who can hit German heads 
as they rise over a trench a hundred 
yards away is just the sort of citizen we 
need on the battle line. He is not an 
expert rifleman, but he is a good practica 
shot and the time, money and labor ex¬ 
pended in creating that degree of skill is 
now proving to be a very profitable in¬ 
vestment. The man who can place his 
shots in an 8-inch bull’s-eye is capable ol 
hitting human heads and to that extenl 
the A Target is useful, but it does not 
penalize high or lateral misses and sc 
fails completely as a training medium 
A shot 9 inches above or to one side 
of a Hun does 
not disturb 
him in the 
least, yet on 
the A Target 
that sort of a 
miss is reward¬ 
ed with4 points, 
while in reality 
it is almost 
valueless. On 
the other hand 
a shot directly 
beneath the 
face of Herr 
Hun will in 
all probability 
“r i c o c h e I 
home,” that is 
rebound from 
the earth and 
spring blithely 
through a se 
o f distorted 
German feat 
ures. While 
the ricochet if 
always more 
or less uncer 
tain in its con 
duct, it pos 
sesses a battl 
value that can 
not be ignored 
for when it does strike the amount of exe 
cution done is simply terrible. Also it i 
the natural tendency of all men to shoo 
high, and this fault can only be correctei 
by constantly and consistently penalizin; 
every high shot until the ability to “hoi 
low” becomes habitual and instinctive. 
’HE first move in the right directioi 
T . 
was made by clipping 12 inches fron 
the top of the Army E Target whicl 
represents a conventional silhouette of ;■ 
man kneeling. This was named the Heai 
Target and gave the general' outline tha, 
was needed, but unfortunately it is usei 
merely as a silhouette target where noth 
ing but hits count, all off-shots beini 
unrecorded. In rifle shooting a bull’s-ey 
teaches you nothing, while a 2 may teacl 
you a lot, and during instruction prac 
tice it is more important to carefully sig 
nal the misses than it is to record th 
hits. In battle practice and firing prob 
