All Ready for Camp Perry 
Here Is a Worth While Vacation Suggestion for 
can shooting men to their Mecca 
at Camp Perry, Ohio, has been 
definitely arranged for. The big range 
on the shores of Lake Erie will throw 
its targets and housing, its storéd-up 
supply of National Match ammunition 
and of National Match rifles and pistols 
open to the citizens of the United States 
on August 28th. Open house will be 
maintained continually from that date 
until October 2nd with a program of 
training and competition with small 
arms of every description which is the 
broadest that has ever been attempted 
by the N. R. A. and sanctioned by the 
War Department. 
The School of Instruction this year 
will occupy two weeks instead of one. 
Teams made up of selected men from all 
thesk-O2 1. C.. and €> M. T. C. Camps 
and all individual shooters who so de- 
sire may report on August 28th. Reg- 
ular organized civilian teams and na- 
tional guard teams will report on Sep- 
tember 6th. These two weeks embrac- 
ing the School of Instruction should be 
highly enjoyable ones, as the weather 
is ideal on the Lake at this season of 
the year and a splendid bathing beach 
in front of the Club House will afford 
ample opportunity for cooling off after 
a day’s work out on the mile-long fir- 
ing line. It has been possible to ob- 
tain the services of additional instruc- 
tors this year, so that civilian riflemen 
whe attend the Camp will suffer under 
no handicap from lack of competent 
teachers. This condition will be par- 
ticularly true during the first week, 
when there will be no one on the range 
except college students and such un- 
attached civilians as may report. 
ia annual pilgrimage of Ameri- 
Contrary to the general impression, 
it is not the expert shot who makes 
up the bulk of the attendance at the 
National Matches. It is the compar- 
atively new man to the game who is 
particularly sought for, particularly 
cultivated, and taken particularly good 
eare of. This condition will be more 
than ever true this year under the re- 
vised ruling relative 
to Tyros. In practi- 
cally éyery match on 
the Camp Perry pro- 
gram, one-third of the 
medals and one-fourth 
of the prize money 
goes to beginners who 
have finished below 
the regular list of 
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medal and prize money winners. These 
medals and the prize money are in ad- 
dition to the regular medals and prize 
money awarded to those Tyros who 
finish high enough to win the regular 
awards. The net result is that in every 
match about one-half the medals and 
one-third the prize money goes to men 
who come under .the official ‘“Tyro” 
classification. In view of this fact, the 
definition as to what constitutes a tyro 
is of the utmost importance. In years 
past, it has been necessary for a man to 
have been a medal winner in certain 
specified events before he lost his Tyro 
status. A great many shooters were 
overseas veterans of several National 
Matches, but never having been medal 
winners, still remained Tyros. It was 
felt that this was obviously unfair to 
the men who were actually novices, so 
that the ruling this year has been 
changed to provide that a Tyro is a man 
who has never fired in any National 
Match or in any of the N. R. A. matches 
conducted in conjunction with the Na- 
tional Matches. In other words, there 
is going to be a good deal of prize money 
and a great many attractive medals 
awarded this year to men who are at- 
tending the Camp for the first time. 
FROM September 15th to 24th the 
N. R. A. competitions will be fired. 
The old familiar events such as the 
Leech, Wimbledon, Presidents, Marine 
Corps Cup, Members Match, etc., are 
all slated to be repeated this year. In 
addition, there will be one or two new 
individual matches, one of which will 
be known as the Chemical Welfare Ser- 
vice Trophy Match, and which will be 
fired under service conditions with the 
gas mask properly adjusted over the 
face of the shooter. A complete set of 
pistol matches providing for every type 
of hand-gun has been programmed, in 
addition to the regular School of In- 
struction for pistol shooters. 
The shotgun clan has been taken care 
of in the usual manner, with a series 
of individual and team matches and a 

special registered tournament. All of 
these things are more or less well-known 
to the sportsmen of the country, but the 
parts of the program that will prove an 
eye-opener to most visitors at the Camp 
is the small bore .22 calibre range. 
The small bore shooting match has been 
a part of the N. R. A. program in con- 
nection with the National Matches since 
1919, but it was not until last year 
that the .22 calibre shooters received 
the encouragement which the impor- 
tance of the .22 as a training weapon 
warrants. 
AST year seven magnificent trophies 
were placed in competition for the 
first time on the small bore range. 
These trophies rival in,value, from a 
cash standpoint, the trophies regularly 
competed for with the biggest guns at 
Perry. Of course they do not have, as 
yet, the halo of tradition surrounding 
them that makes such events as the 
Wimbledon and the Leech sporting clas- 
sics, but they will acquire this in due 
time. 
So keen was the interest in the .22 
calibre game at the matches last year 
that the range facilities which had been 
provided, proved entirely inadequate, 
in spite of the fact that they were half 
again as large as the facilities of the 
preceding year. Before the small bore 
program was completed, it was neces- 
sary to improvise target butts, which 
doubled the capacity of the .22 calibre 
range. This year full provision will be 
made for the small borers, bearing in 
mind the lessons learned in 1923. 
The School of Instruction and the 
Matches are open to any citizen of the 
United States. Shooters or sportsmen 
who want to become shooters may re- 
port at any time during the period of the 
School and Matches and may leave 
whenever they want to. Rifles, ammu- 
nition, and quarters, as well as com- 
petent instructors, are furnished with- 
out cost by the Government. The only 
expense to the competitor is that of 
transportation and the cost of meals in 
the Government op- 
erated cafeteria, 
which will average 
POs stOmeole2D ee pen 
day, depending on the 
extent to which the 
shooter’s appetite de- 
velops under the stim- 
ulus of camp life. 
(Continued on p. 558) 
