The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM.

Now Ready, Pert ht, (poet free), One Shilling,
THE RIFLEMAN'S COMPANION.
A NEW WORK BY FRANCIS JOHN LOCK,
READING

LONDON

Author of 'The Volunteer's
,Friend," 14th Thousand,

and Specia. Correspondent for the Doi/ y News).

CONTAINS 200 pages, stout paper, Cron 3
Sim., with Drawings from Photographs of the Au.
thor in the Standing and L)ing Positions. Address,—
Editor Rifleman's Compete.), at Deacon Leadenhall.
street, E.C.; or may be obtained of soy bookseller in
the World. . . . .

A-
mongst the subjects. (classified and indexed) treated
upon are: Lucky shouung—Training—How to Select a
Rifle—Natural Deviation—Home Practice—Range Prac•
tie.—Aiming—C.dtching—Winclage—Burrowing—(.iu
Weasher—Unnecesaary Haste—Sights—bighting—Sy
taclea—Blur—T emperament —Drees— Stimulsuts—
_rositid•a of the Swise, Belgian, French, Scotch, A de.
Hem, lierman—Secret of Shoulder Shooting—Light—
Shade —.ltuage—liefroction veviaed) Beg stratfun—
Grdes Winds—Eddlea—Foriling—Pall of Trigger—Free.
sure—Lucid Expianatiou of Use of Screw ffigut Elem.
tor—Wind Tables, corrected from The Volunteer's
Friend --Damp Weather—Misty—Heat Sunahiae—
Varied Elevations—Ammunition—Row it is tested by
Crack uhuts—Defective Sightuig—The only way to get
Consecutive Eyes—t;outidence The Balance—The tiny
Alo•tary Breechloaders—Martini— Rapid Flring
Lyiug Puaitions Nuffiernua Target Ootallea Ruled
lateraectwg Linea—Steel Barrels, How to fit them
and where to °own them for 19a (id—Sure Shoulders—
/low the Crack," maater the Wind—Warning to Cum-
inniture at All•coiners' Mac:nes—Cooking. the Scores—
Corps, County Fees—Pnysical and Moral Effects of Vol-
unteering—Father rid Sou as Private Practice (with
separate Indei)--,:anung the IL:ilia—Practices of Meier'
Baker, Bart, t.ortes, klumphry,Camerou, .kc.—Elow to
detect Short Cartridgea—bad Bullets—New Barrels—
Peculiarities of different lisoge•—Cause of /Neon/I,lB—
Igo of Wwd—Deusity of Atmosphere—The Uses of
the Barometer, Hygrometer, and the Anemometer fully
explained—Shooting from WM to WV Yards—Qualifies,.
Tons for • Really tiood Shot, drc ,
Ti-get Outlines, with ttegitters, cloth 12 stamps.
But • few cloth Copies " Ihe Volunteer's Friend " (100
pages, crown new) rerosining, these can be sent to young
shots at wholess'e—price—lt .taTops, post tree, or six
copies for 6d.
Officers desiroua of advancing the shootag powers of
thee compraies, rid of emt.'at'lg the example of others
by presenting copies of '• The Volunteer's Friend ' to
their men, can have 25 cloth copies for 20s; 50 for 37,
6d. Sixpenny Edition, 36. per huadred.
The Mete Screw Sight Elevator, with Tabulated Scale
(range practice obviated), 7a 62 ; postage, 22. .
A beat Steel Barrel Snider, chequered stock, as allowed
at W•mbladon, sighted correctly upon a range similar in
envy respect to Wimbledon, accuracy guaranteed, price
.E 6 15s.

Lock's Sight Black (equal to one dozen bottles any
other), lid per bottle, post free.
A boa containing one dozen le bottles of Gould'. Fluid,
or chemically retied co, sent to sny address on receipt
of Post•ollice Order, St tid. Sm bottles for 4s tid.

" Lock's Treatise' on Pitman's Shu—ithTiti:'ti.stamps
post free. (No Teacher required).
Stamps accepted as payment, but, when convenient,
send Post-ottice Order, payable to Francis John Lock at
the Leadenbe ..street Foot-office, London. Cheques
crossed kkroeck

All Volum:sera' necessaries supplied by the Editor.

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