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Show BW Police to Hit What They Fire at TeUs cfi, I HBr) P. LANE i'e the champion. HB&t Eliot of the world. Young Eiane he Is only a little over V jKtf to title at the Olympic fi'm- Sweden, 1912, when he out-' out-' 'R&t pistol marksmen the big dEe has been selected to teach JEs policemen how to shoot. ,', RojuiiiBsloner McKay, feeling IWflKeQ needed the instruction, de-fdKply de-fdKply for the best and asked tLHfre It, Three times a week, jlHtte officers will be taught by i-fBi champion in 'the shooting uMBfoliCD Headquarters. Instead HKvdummies of human beings, lB.6tc.lKlll he used. Kjtaie, at the request of this TTBiells how easy it Is to be-jgBj be-jgBj pistol shot and just what nj&Alfred P. Lane. rtiHfc Champion Pistol Shot) IK-ln an Interview. jtfKrSN snoot? Certainly they jfctl And if what they shoot TB-Wt more than ten feet lM-jpKmotiiiies hit .it. Anyone .jjqjH up a gun and pull the lMBehoot; but as for hitting any-Kliiisat, any-Kliiisat, that is something else Htooling and for that matter Kbf shooting is the subject of Botception on the part of the 3K'tli9 layman than any other 'fccnr of. And perhaps before I -iHetr io shoot it will be well to ?Mof these misconceptions. "Bwauuon everyday misconcep-JBjb misconcep-JBjb supposition that a man who jjJMlTer In his pocket is protected, 'BpblicKnan is a protection mere-xK mere-xK carries a gun. If the man 03 fle policeman or citizen Jpo' how to shoot he would iwatas effective, as far as hit- JKe ,s concerned If ie nau a lahis pocket. As the average 2Bj gun it is not effective more ten feet from what he is Bp are shooting at a mau rMF rom you and suppose jB fourteen inches wide, which R9 so far as the effective area Vs body b concerned. If you iftHp ; Pointed directly at. his chest, (LjUhout wavering, the shot will "P; Bat if the gun wavers a half Quite likely, because of the IIMto'!? the trigger a trick char-the char-the novice that the bullet i mn afc a1- Ai,d that jtv1 isn't of much use beyond ? mai. unless you can use JKe 'Jest shooters I know are MP some of them take a drink f?P- On the other hand, there 'Sood ehooters who are total ii C0UrSG' amolslng to excess UDg to excess will inter- nan's digestion and react Ps system. milfr 0mc a sd shooter! Iuz lu moots ir i nad my H-Vo every man and soma ESfii2"lalce UP shooting and SSi re.a sun- Jf necessary, Sfy HVes 01 the rest V'W sll00t they would & , 7 Would have bettr far I ,5 have greater self-WminJ self-WminJ m acfluire a presence KftBS; 11 Would eive them RBhii.h y Woi,ld DG Possessed gilahmont which is likely to KLndy any minute. 11 ty6 ot reulrQ Shooters are not ilMde- Ay man can be- ;'h ihs ?arkBman- AU is 'o tnin. apply himself and 73 !?s is necessary. Peo-Ne Peo-Ne &lcrB tralQ-we don't. 6? cm 5B Te don,t d- The Sit done by a man in ilC..eyaay,conditfon. If he Wi S'ty I don't leave off pUim .i e any other man A o?0?1"5. t0 up his ftshnM? "ohhies. When a SSS?,80 toa meet we act !C to !Gn travolIaB men tto till tbingB easy. smoke lcen raadr!uk IC WQ want he bfi0,? WouW BP11 us-tnan- di,ffp'rence between tcotu?! any4 oer athlotos tP S ft' The shooter. ;nfc 0Und oob. You K 11,11 an e):pert pistol Qhot holds his gun out with a steady hand, gets it right over the bullseye and pulls the trigger. He doesn't Nothing could bo further from 'the fact. The pistol shooter cocks his gun with his thumb, holds it out townrd the target with his arm extended straight, takes aim along the sights, begins gradually to pull' the trigger, watches the gun weavo back and forth across the mark and, when it is in the middle of ono of its trips across the hullseye, finishes the pull of the trigger. There is no such thing as holding a" pistol dead over a bullseye and shooting it is a human impossibilty. Tho arm is hound to sway to and fro, even if ever so slightly, and the only way to hit the centre of the bullseye is to have the time and begin again some day, this time using a small weapon. Tho single shot pistol, while it has to be loaded each time and is, therefore, not the best for house or pocket use, is' very accurate for target work. The beginner be-ginner ought not to pay less than five dollars for his gun and a twenty-two calibre weapon of that type will last indefinitely. in-definitely. Ono of the faults most likely to crop out in a novice is a tendency to squeeze the life out of a gun; he takes a hold on the grip that speaks well for the raanu-iacturor raanu-iacturor of the revolver; if the maker nldn t put good stuff in the grip it would be crushed, so tightly do some' beginners squeeze. The natural and successful way Anyone Can Accurately j jmaik, Champ.on Lane Using an Automatic, lllus- rf iSft;ife . . - "Smm , fatmg the Correct Manner of tfl:MSSj!ft hammer fall just as the gun happens to be going across the centre of the mark-To mark-To the man who contemplates taking up shooting, I would advise the purchase of a fairly good gun; not necessarily a costly weapon but one which is sufficiently suffi-ciently good to come within the reliable class. Without a reliable gun the beginner be-ginner will be unable to learn how fast he ds progressing, for lie may make one good shot and one poor shot, whereas with a good gun both might have been good or bad. The beginner, also, should not get a larger calibre than a twenty-two. After he has been at it for some time it is all right for him to secure a heavier gun, but every average beginner should use a small one. If he starts with a thirty-two or a thirty-eight, the bang and recoil of the gun is very likely to cause him to flinch. He may be physically courageous and all that, but as he is not accustomed to firearms he still may develop de-velop a flinch. The reason for it is this: To shoot accurately the pull of the finger on the trigger must bo even, Bteady and slow, causing the hammer to fall at tho instant in-stant when the gun is In the right position posi-tion as regards the bullseye. Furthermore, Further-more, the hammer should fall so that it will snap down and not jar the gun. This will happen, if the pull- is right, because of the inertia of the gun itself. If the shooter is affected with flinching flinch-ing he cannot do this; he is always prone to yank1 the trigger and this yank throws the gun out of line with the target. tar-get. Thus, no matter how careful his aim has been all his effort has been useless use-less because of the gun being thrown out of line in the second before the bullet leaves the barrel. If he finds he is unable un-able to get over the tendency to flinch he might better give up shooting for a . to shoot Is to hold the grip with a sufficient suffi-cient but easy pressure, not in an unnecessarily un-necessarily tight squeeze. The more they squeeze the more they wobble and tho worse they wobbl9 the lesB they hit, I know of a young follow who started out to practice shooting; he said he was going to keep It up until he became so good he could put one bullet in the same hole on 'top of the one before it. If he adhered to his resolution he probably is shooting yet, trying to put two bullets in the same spot. It 1b not skill that does that, it's luck. You may imagine that with a pistol clamped in a vise and so fixed that it was absolutely motionless, every shot fired from it would go into the same hole; this sounds well but it isn't true. That, of course, is the way guns are tested for accuracy sometimes, but what counts Is the grouping of the shots. Grouping in this sense means tho clustering together to-gether in a small area. The good gun will plant all its shotB under those conditions con-ditions in a small area; if it is not a reliable gun some of the shots will stray away from the cluster and the cluster itself will be spread out more. The same thing applies to the Bhooter himself; the better marksman ho is, the nearer together to-gether his shots will hit and the fewer will stray away from the group. , It. is undoubtedly true that using both j eyes vhen sighting is easier on the eyes, z While a great many shooters used but one eye in starting in to learn to shoot it is much better to do so with both Champion Lane Illustrating Correct Cor-rect Position for Sighting a Pistol The Wrong Way to Hold the Wrist in Shooting, and at the Left, the Wrong Way to Hold the Hand. The First Ar Finger Should Be Used to . , sM Pull the Trigger and T'fever Be Laid Along the Barrel. eyes open. (I always use both eyes unless un-less I am using a telescopic sight. Then I close one eye because the telescope makes a difference in the light which strikes the eye and with both eyes open Lho light they receive would be unequal find cause a strain on the optic nerve. It's interesting to consider the hip shooting which is commonly stated to have been prevalent in the West in the frontier days. It is even now believed ;H A Searchlight Pistol, a German In-vention, In-vention, Designed to Correct Bad Shoot-fng Shoot-fng in Time of Urgent PeriL Tho Light-Throwing Barrel and Shooting ; fH Barrel Are So Adjusted, the Inventor '1 Claim,, That the Bullet Will Invariably :H Strike on the Black Spot Shown in the Picture, Which is Produced by a Black Centre on the Lens Through Which the Light Streams. Champion Lane ; JH Thinks Any One Can Learn to Shoot ' Well Enough with an Ordinary Pistol. In the Dark an Ordinary Flash At- tached to a Pistol Would Reveal to tho '11 Intruder the Position of the House-holder. House-holder. This Arrangement of Light, However, Enables the Latter to "Cover" the Target While Exposing Little ofi H His Own Body to a Return Fire. by many people that lt is possible id Jl sight a gun by Instinct just as a man IH points hlB finger. This is not entirely iH a delusion, for it can be done quite ef- fectively for short distances. At tea 'iH feet, say, a man who Ib familiar with a H gun can noint it more or less accurately 'H but as the distance Increases his accuracy : 'H decreases. The reason for this is that H the gun, to hit a man, doesn't have to be IH aimed directly at a certain spot when the ; ,IH distance is short. The aim may vary . iH several inches and stilL hit an effective iH spot, .but as the distance Increases the jH aim must be more accurate and this is jH possible only by Blghting and careful ilH shooting. jH Hitting a man while chasing him merely by 'finger aiming' is a faulty ; method and more or less of a delusion. iH If a policeman is chasing a burglar and wants to hit him the safest method Is to stop dead still and take a good aim. ' H Shooting while the shooter is running is dangerous to bystanders, not to the bur- glar. jH Many people, because of the stray bul- JH lets that are fired, believe a revolver or l''H a pistol to be a dangerous thing; they say iH it kicks up when it is fired and they be- H Ueve that a marksman 1b merely a good H guesser in that he can gueBS how much jH the gun is going to kick and aims his jH Bhot at a correspondingly low point This is delusion No. 7,831,002. A gun kicks, jH It is true, but the marksman doesn't have 'IH to do any guessing. When the sights are , fixed, allowance is made for the upward 'H kick due to tho recoil and if the sighting :H of the shooter is accurate the shot will tM be accurate. I now have a gun which IH 1 ordered sighted too low; I am gradually ' filing the. front Bight off so that when I' , have it where I want it the gun will be 5 very near absolute dependability. 'vH It is well to explain a little about au- ;'H tomatics; that is tho comparatively new type of gun in which the magazine, or i'l chamber which holds the bullets, is JH shoved up into the bottom of the grip or handle. It is commonly believed that "il with one of these guns the shooter pulls the trigger and holds it back until the jJ ten shots are fired. If this were the case jfl the Kim would kick "up a little with every , fl shot and the shooter would shoot him- self In the face In a fraction of a sec- ond. These guns shoot easily, with a 'il very slight trigger pull, and are rapid In , action. Tho weapon is reloaded each . fl time by the recoil, but the ten shots do not fly out on one pull of the trigger, as l fl is the case -In a machine gun. f; The misunderstanding on this poind t is doubtless due to two things to the S rapidity and case of firing and to tho j fact that when the guns were first il brought out there was a tendency for more than one bullet to come out on ono pull of tho triggor. This, however, as I I' IJ stated, Is a serious disadvantage and has been overcome. The natural tendency in tho automatic weapon is for this to hap- H pen, nnd in the machine gun a pneuma- fll tic device is attached to lessen the ra- ! Idity with which the shots are fired; ll as it is, the reports are a sort of buzz, jH they are so close together. , jH Tho great advantage to the man who 1 takes up shooting as a pastime is that it gives, him somethiug with which to occupy his mind outside his work. It is recreative in the extreme and isn't tir- , ing. As a sport it is different, there is ; no training, no strain. It develops and steadies a man's nerves; if he can stand ; BH up to a target and hit it ten times in sue- iH cession lt gives him a feeling of mastery flH and of self-confidence. Pie is bettor able' , 'H to look another man in the eye as a man, '"'1 should do. There are several shooting! . jH clubs and ranges in town where a man H can find facilities for practise, and it ia not expensive. Twenty-five cents worth) of ammunition will furnish an evening's" ill sport. Not very costly, is it? Not much 'H more than two 'wet' pool games would 'H cost. ) ; IH And by tho way, ell that the Sullivan) 'H law does is to make good citizens de-j jH fonseless, while tho 'crooks' carry guns' ; jH just the same. ! jH |