The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-24
They Object to Ammunition
Supplied by the State
Authorities.
TESTED AT sCHUETZEN PARK.
The New Powder Pronounced
Worthless-Good Scores at
Shell Mound.

Inc SnarpSnOOterS or the NdJlO0aI GuarQ
are indignant. They object to Lieutenant
Colonel Rowland of the Seventh Infantry
being allowed to shoot off his score at Los
Angeles while they have to go to Sacra-
mento to win their bars and medals. They
object to paying their own expenses, and
they make the same old protest against the
cartridges supplied by Uncle Sam.
Some of the best shots in San Fran
cisco said yesterday that the State scorer
was welcome to mark them up ten misses,
as they had no intention of competing if
they had to shoot shells supplied by the
State.
In letter to the CALL on the subject,
Fred G. Muller said:
In the interest of the sharpshooters of the
National Guard of California l desire to call
your attention to general order No. 8, issued at
sacramento in May last 1t sets forth that all
sharpshooters who have made score of ninety
or more will be permitted" to finish their
final string at Sacramento, and further that
they will be also permitted" to pay their ex-
penses to the capital as there is no available
cash in the treasury to meet the necessary out
lay.
Now, if the Government cannot pay our ex-
penses why not, in all reason and fairness, al
low us to shoot our final scores on the same
range at which we competed during our semi
annual target practice and thus save us time
Alu money! we are supposed TO De IN Sacra-
mento on the 2Sth inst. and that is collection
day and many OF US can i'll afford to leave our
business.
see that one Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland
Is to be allowed to shoot off his score on the
Seventh Infantry range, and I'd like to know
why we can't have the same privilege. All we
want is fair field and no favor, and may the
best shot win.
The ammunition we are to shoot with is not
good, and that is another thing that will keep
the sharpshooters away from Sacramento. At
-an w nil of
Shell Mound last week only about 90 out of
600 men who were called showed upon account
OF the cartridges served out. Everybody got
ten shells, and of course the bulk of them were
not used. Eighteen of us secured ten rounds
each of the stuff and went to Schuetzen Park
to test it. The shells were filled in '91 and
'92 and are not good now. 1t is an utter i'm
possibility to make an accurate shot with them
and the lead in the bullets ruins our guns. We
don't want to go to Sacramento and we won t
use the Government ammunition.
Among those who tested the Government
shells at Schuetzen Park yesterday were
H. r. Brown, T. J. Carroll, Captain w.
Elliott, T. G. Muller, T. B. Moulton, HI.
Robinson and NJ. Reilly. Before testing
the States ammunition the two latter fired
off a previously arranged match with the
following result:
R Re Ia Ia
Later in the day they had another con-
tcSG Will OHClc pdln SucllS WHICH re-
suited as follows:
Robinson. ..................4 8 4 2 4 3 8 3-35
Reilly. 2 2 4-33
With the Government powder Ell. r.
Brown made AZ while his average is Al;
Tom Carroll made Al while his average is
also AZ and the others were all in the same
boat. 81 am now trying to get the lead out
of my gun" said Brown, land l can tell
you this l have fired my last round of
! GovQrf, inf tfi0y Lo,,
all the sharpshooting they want in Sacra-
mento, but / will not be a contestant"
1.-The cartridges are not good, said T. j.
Carroll. "They are old stock manufac-
tured in 1891 and 1892 and no marksman
can do good work with them. The State
pays cents shell for this truck and if
they would allow US we would have them
reloaded here. The stuff is terrible on the
guns and wears shooter out. Why, |
would sooner fire fifty of my own shells
than five of Uncle Sans"
Judging by the samples l have used to-
day, the Government shells are bad very
bad" said Captain Elliot, ''and l for one
am not going to risk my reputation as
marksman by attempting to shoot with
them. / think we should be allowed to
use the same shells we practiced with and
that we should not be put to the expense
of going to Sacramento"
Captain F. B. Moulton said: "a sharp
| SnOOter SnOulQ De allOWeQ 10 choose his
own ammunition. Four-year-old shells
! that are the refuse of the East are not good
and no man can make good score with
| them"
| The Stanley medal was contested for at
| Schuetzen Park and won by Private Jones
with score of 46 out of possible so. The
other scores were:
Robinson A, Dawson 43, Boyen 43, Carrigan
| 43, A. Smith AZ, ]. Mulhearn As, NJ. Reilly d.
Jacobs 40, Fallon Al, Vanderbilt Al, Buston
Al, Stolph Al, F. Mulhearn 40 and J. PatcheI
40.
The State shoot of Company D of the
Fifth will take place in Schuetzen Park
Wednesday and Thursday next.