tae RETURN: OF THE 
PREE RIFLE 
(Continued from page 15) 
As the pro-rata cost of a good rifle 
is only a small part of the annual ex- 
pense of rifle shooting to most people, 
it is indeed good news to hear that at 
last a larger percentage of our rifle 
competitions are being designed to al- 
low the real rifle crank to shoot the 
weapon he prefers and, therefore, to 
shoot successfully, satisfactorily, and 
in comfort. 
Previous to 1910 or thereabouts, free 
rifle shooting was the most popular 
rifle shooting in this country. Most of 
the shooting was offhand, and what lit- 
tle free rifle shooting was done from 
other positions was usually rest shoot- 
ing by a group of men who obtained 
considerably more enjoyment from se- 
curing exceptionally small groups than 
from engaging in offhand competitions. 
Most of the principal free rifle 
matches, or as they were then called, 
Schuetzen rifle matches, were held at 
Walnut Hill, Mass.; Schuetzen Park, 
Philadelphia; Glendale Park, Glendale, 
Been. ¥.; Union Hill, N. J.; 
Schuetzen Park, Greenville, N. J.; 
Shell Mound, San Francisco, St. Louis, 
Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Charleston, S. 
C., and Chicago. 
The names of F. C. Ross, W. G. Hud- 
son, Mike Dorrler, Matt Gindele, H. M. 
Pope, D. W. King, among the offhand 
shots; and Rabbeth, Chase, Kelley, 
Rowland, Mrs. Partridge, Willard and 
others among the rest shooters, were 
just as well known as Stokes, Neuss- 
lein, Osborne, or Fisher are known as 
free rifle shots to-day. They were not 
only as well-known among riflemen, 
but were far better known to the gen- 
eral public because in those days rifle 
shooting received about the same pro- 
portion of publicity in the daily news- 
papers as is now given to prize fight- 
ing and golf. 
The free rifles either of the period 
between 1895 and 1910, or of to-day, 
were of much the same general build. 
The usual weight is between 11 and 14 
pounds with an average of about 12 
pounds. The single-shot rifles used for 
offhand shooting at 200 yards by the 
Schuetzen shooters usually were fitted 
with 30-inch barrels. Most of our pres- 
ent Springfield heavy match rifles are 
fitted with 24-inch barrels, but the 
over-all length of the two types are al- 
most exactly the same as the action 
part of the Springfield is much longer 
than the action section of most of the 
single shots. 
There is a growing tendency, how- 
ever, to use bolt action free rifles with 
barrels longer than 24 inches. The ad- 
dition of each extra inch of barrel 
length between 24 and 30 inches, adds 
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