Making a homemade range for shooting
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Making a homemade range for shooting
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Making an up-to-date range from a dingy cellar
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“ NO PLACE to shoot.”
That’s no excuse for
a fellow with any in-
nuity. Here is what the
Boy Scouts of Toop 18 did
in the thickly settled city
of Albany. They wanted
to form a Local Unit of
the National Winchester
Junior Rifle Corps. They
wanted to learn the fine
points of rifle shooting and |
carn the famous Winchester Marksman,
Sharpshooter and Expert Rifleman Medals.
They got busy with their Scout Master
and looked around for a place to build a
Je, Foal they hit on a 50 ft. space
in the cellar of the church!
Making every shot safe
The first thing to do was to cover up the
window and build a safe
backstop over it. This
was done by using a
picce of boiler plate 1/4
of an inch thick and 4 ft.
by 4 ft, large enough,
you see, to stop even the
wildest shots of the be-
ginner. Over this were
clamped heavy 1 7/8inch
boards,
Now this backstop of 1 7/8; reinforced by
1/4 inch boiler plate, will hold any stray
shot from a .22. But shot after shot con-
centrated on one spot will soon chew your
board to shreds. so to take care of the
concentrated fire just behind the targets,
two extra pieces of 1/4 inch boiler plate, 2
ft. square, and covered with soft 2-nch thick
boards, were nailed to the backstop about
18 inches apart. so ft. from this backstop
they built a regular counter 3 ft. high and
2 ft. wide with a carpet cover—just like the
kind you see at public shooting galleries.
This was the “firing line.”
Target set up and lighting system
Targets were carried to the backstop from
the firing line in pairs—so that two boys
could shoot at the same_time—by means of
an overhead pulley and wire system.
The gallery was lighted by electric light behind the
firing line and the targets were lighted by electric ight
reflected down from bubs above the backstop and pro-
fected from stray bullets by the beams of the celar roof.
A neat little club room with benches built into the
walls adjoined the gallery, and its spick and span
white-painted walls were decorated with handsomely
framed pictures of the club's camp life, record targets
and Winchester ' Marksman and Sharpshooter
diplomas, won by various members.
Start a W. J. R. C. “Unit”
with your friends
The job of finding a place ta shoot, rigging up a
range and getting your rifles is always easier and
cheaper then sou hate a bunch of your chums in on i
“There's more fun, too, inthe actual shooting wher
there are other fellows to compete with.
So why not get together with half a dozen of your
chums, fin te Winchester Junior Rifle Corpe and
organize a regular Unit or Club which will be officially
recognized by National Headquarters. When vou
Have enough Marksmen in’ sour Unit, you will be
matched against other Units. Any boy who starts a
TIRE gets a Special Service Pin.
The W. J. R. C. will help you from start to finish
in rigging up your indoor and outdoor range.
The W. J. R. C. gives vou all the instruction neces-
sary to become a real expert in the use of a rifle. It
provides for officers, supervisors and adult instructors
to make your shooting safe. |
Tt costs you nothing to join the W. J. R. C. There
are no dues and no military obligations whatsoever.
The W. J. R. C. was organized |
solely 0 encourage better
marksmanship and better sports-
manship among boys and girls |
of America. It is intended to
develop the qualities of fair play |
and manliness which are essen-
tial to success in after life, Any |
boy or girl not over 18, who isin
good Sanding in his or her com-
munity, is eligible.
Membership in the W.J.R.C.
covers the entire United States.
There is hardly a town now that
has not at least a small “Unit” |
of the big National Organiza |
tion where boys are learning to
become expert riflemen and are
competing among themselves
for the famous Winchester |
Marksman and Sharpshooter
Medal. You, too, can earn |
these Krophies of marksmanship if you join the
W. J. R. C. and start shooting now.
Get the official plan and handbook
Write today for the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps
“Plan for organizing a W. J. R. C. Unit,” and for the
official handbook, “How ‘to handle a’ rifle safely.”
This booklet tells you all about the W. J. R. C. and
describes in detail the fine points of Shooting gigs
ment of sights, the three correct positions, rules for
gun safety, the care of rifles, and the proper rifle for
You to use.
1f you are a boy scout give your name in full, the
troop you belong to, and the name of the Seout Master.
If you are not a boy scout, state what boy organiza-
tion, if any, you belong to, giving the name of the
official in charge.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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85
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 4, 1919
