The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-03-29 00:00:00

Now Reedy, Part Ist, (post free), One Shilling,
TILE RIFLEMAN'S COMPANION.
A NEW WORK BY FRANCIS JOHN LOCK,
SLIDING

LONDON

Author of "The Volunteer's Friend," 140 h Thousand,
and Special Correspondent for the Doily/Vacs).
• (10NTAINS 200 pages, stout paper, Crows
Bvo., with Drawings from Photographs of the Au-
thor in the Standing and Lying Positions. Address,—
Editor Rifleman's Companion, at Deacon Leadenhall-
street, E.C. ; or may be obtained of any bookseller ia
the World.
Amongst the subjects (classified and indexed) treated
upon are: Lucky Shooting—Training—How to Select a
Rifle—Natural Deviation—Home Practice—Range Pm-
Lice—Aiming—Coaching:- Windage7Burrowing—Ga .t
;

W rather —Unite ce seary ilaste—Stghts— Sighting— Si
tacles—Blur—Temperament—Dress— Stimulants—l
—Positions of the Swiss, Belgian, French, Scotch,ll us.
Mean, tierman—Secret of Shoulder Shooting—Light--
Shade—Mirage—Refraction (revised) Registration—
Cross Winds—Eddies—Fouling—Pull of Trigger—Pre.-
sure—Lucid Explanation of Use of Screw Sight Eleva-
tor—Wind Tables, corrected from 'The Volunteer's
Friend "—Damp Weather—Misty— Heat Sunshine--
Varied Llevahous—Ammunition—How it is tested by
Crack Shots—Defective Sighting—The only way to get
Consecutive Eyes—Confidences—The Balance—The Grip
Military Breechloaders—Martini Rapid Firing
Lying Positions Numerous Target Outlines Ruled
ditto, lutersectiug Lines—Steel Barrels, How to fit them
bud where to obtain them for 19s 6d—Sure Shoulders— e
How the •• Cracks" master the Wind—Warning to Com-
petitors at All-comers' Matches—Cooking the Scores—
Corps, County Fees—Physical and Moral Effecte of Vol-
unteering—Father and Son as Private Practice (with
separate dude:)—Canting the hide—Practices of Messrs
Baker, Burt, Cortes, Humphry,Caraeron, &c.—How to
detect Short Cartridges—Bad Bullets—New Barrels—
Peculiarities of different Ranges—Cause of Ricochets—
Change of Wind—Density of Atmosphere—The Usesoi
the Barometer, Hygrometer, and the Anemometer fully
explamed—Shootuig from 600 to 84.10 Yards—Qualifies.
tions for a Really hood Shot, &o,
Target Outlines, with Registers, cloth 12 stamps.
Rota few cloth copies '".I. he Volueteer's Friend" (100
pages, crown Svo) remaining, these can be sent to young
shots at wholesale—price-14 stamps, post free, or six
copies for 6s.
Officers desirous of advancing the shooting powers of
their companies, and of emulatiog the example of others
by presenting copies of •• The Volunteer's Friend " te
their men, can have 25 cloth copies for 205; 50 for his
6d. Sixpenny Edition, 36s per hundred.
The Metal Screw Sight Elevator, with Tabulated Scala
(range practice obviated), is 6d ; postage, 2d.
A best Steel Barrel Snider, chequerea stock, as allowed
at Wimbledon, sighted cornctia IltUlt is range similar in
retry respect to Wimbledon, accuracy guaranteed, price
£6 los.
Lock's Sight Black (equal to one dozen bottles any
other), id per bottle, post free.
A box containing one dozen Is bottles of Gould's Fluid,
or chemically retiued oil, sent to any address on receipt
of Post-office Order, Si 6,1. Su bottles for 4s fid.
" Lock's Treatise on Pitman's Shorthand." 6 stamps
post free. (No reacher required).
Stamps accepted as payment, but, when convenient,
send Post-office Order, pay able to Francis John Lock at
the Lesdenhallstreet Post-office, London. Cheques
creased Birbeck Bask.
All Volunteers' necessaries supplied by th. 3 Editor.