A Rifle Range That Any Boy Can Build
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A Rifle Range That Any Boy Can Build
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WHERE to shoot—is that the problem that has kept you from joining the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps and learning the joy of trigger magic? If so, a few practical hints are all you need to rig up a rifle range of your own, where shooting can be made safe. The most important thing is to select a backstop that will catch and hold the bullets. Every shot must be safe.
The side of a hill (as in the picture) makes the best backstop for a range. Dig it out square and face it with light boards to hold your paper targets. If there’s no hill available, you can build a backstop in your yard. A large packing case filled with sand or earth will be safe, but any backstop should be at least 4 feet high and 4 feet wide.
If your cellar or basement will give you a clear range of 5 feet, it will make a fine place for shooting all the year ’round, and in all kinds of weather. Here you can make a plain backstop as suggested above.
Start a W.J.R.C. Unit with your friends
The job of finding a place to shoot, sizing up a range and getting your rifles is always easier and more fun when you have a bunch of your chums with you. It’s a lot more exciting, too, to do the actual shooting when there are other fellows to compete with.
So why not get together with half a dozen of your chums, join the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps and organize a regular Unit which will be officially recognized by National Headquarters? Any boy who starts a Unit receives a Special Service Pin.
The W.J.R.C. will help you from start to finish in rigging up an indoor or outdoor range.
The W.J.R.C. gives you all the instruction necessary to be a real expert in the use of a rifle. It provides for officers, supervisors and adult instructors to keep your shooting safe.
It costs you nothing to join the corps. There are no dues and no military obligations. The W.J.R.C. exists to encourage better marksmanship and better sportsmanship among boys and girls of America. It is intended to develop the qualities of fair play and manliness which are essential to success in afterlife. Any boy or girl not over 18, who is in good standing in his or her community, 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 Organization where boys are competing for the famous Winchester Marksman, Sharpshooter and Expert Rifleman Medals. You, too, can earn these trophies of marksmanship if you join the W.J.R.C. and start shooting now.
Get the official plan and rule book
Write today for the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps “Plan for organizing a W.J.R.C. Unit,” and for the official rule book 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—alignment of sights, the three correct positions, rules for gun safety, the care of rifles, and the proper rifle for you to use.
If you are a boy scout or a member of any other boys’ organization, state what organization and give the name of the official in charge.
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1919-09
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85
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
