The San Francisco call., 1896-02-17

VI 10 cause the marksmen to shift their
WWlnugauges, but the light was treacherous.
NoHe Detter than rif1emen realize the tricks
we Hgnt on an ordinary bright day can play.
l. frequently happens that within the space
On Oh second the atmospheric conditions
wiz cnange so as to completely upset q
mans calculations. For example, the
oiack disk in the white target on a20O-yard
lange VIII appear not over 100 yards away
ana the next minute it will be so dim as
70 appear 250 or 800 yards away.
-Such illusions are bad enough, but the
feneman IS completely at sea when the
puiiseye Stretches down to meet the
'front.' sight on his rife. That, is the round
piack disk appears to become elongated
like an egg on end. When this illusion
lakes place the marksman had better wait
1or the atmosphere to clear or he will be
taxing great chances of making Wild
shot.
Another atmospheric caprice is when
the heat and light give the lower part OF
the round disk fiattened appearance like
the bottom of pear To fully explain the
causes of these eccentricities would take
too much space, but briefly stated they are
heat, light and wind.
Such conditions existed yesterday, and
IT kept the marksmen thinking rapidly to
keep pace with the changes. For all that
number OF very good scores were made
held its regular contest for class medals.
The scores and winners were as follows:
Champion medal, won by John Zimmerman,
1863 rings; first class medal, won by ID. Bach.
332; second class medal, won by p. II. Rulfs,
296; third class medal, won by w. Dressler,
200; first beSt-shot medal, won by G. Huer,
- last best-shot medal, won by 81. Bockmann,
25.
Several of the military sharpshooters
held their monthly medal shoots Since
the reorganization of the National Guard
many new men have entered the volun-
teer service and neerly all are young men.
All of the latter have entered rifle shoot
ing with enthusiasm, and, while their
scores are not very high, they are deter
mined to succeed. Many of the new mem
bers were on the range practicing yester-
day. Following are the companies, marks
men and scores:
Company of the First-E. c. Cordell SO.
Lieutenant A. F. Ramm 43, w. Osmond 35,
George Sullivan 81. Charles Perry AT, J. Gilky-
son %, H. B. Sullivan 81, A. McCulloch 80, L.
R. Townsend ~. ]. R. Wear 43, W: Krug q.
Roberts SO, William Kelly So, j. J. Yaeger 35,
A. E. H. Apthorpe 40 Gus Ungerman 43, w. L.
overstIeet %, W. Baumgartner 46. L. thinner
man Sc, A. Gehret AZ, \; Fetz Al, J. Fetz a. R.
Company A of the Fifth-Captain Poulter
43, Sergeant Donnie 43, Sergeant Brier 80, c..
E Maker Al, Lieutenant Vaughn 40, " Sum-
lutrS u uCketI 4O, Jduanlgdn r. Peter-
son 80, ]. w. Peck 29 McCombs 3, Parritt 2,
Moore %, Brink 81, Herman "a, Fellows So.
Bryan %, Bodwell %, Jumper 80, Jahnigan
%. Strong %, Ellis A. Learn SO, Littlefield 43,
]. Taggard 81. J. S. Stewart 43, McKillican 3s,
c. Taggert 35, Tymeson SO, Patrey u. Hall 13,
Deeds 80, Dickerson 33.
Knights of the Red Branch Rifles, practice
Captain J. sheehy. 43; Sergeant D. Russell, 50
2. Sullivan, %; j. Campbell, 81; Sergeant NJ.
Gaul, AZ; Sergeant ]. Smith Al; ]. Tracy, al
Lieutenant N. Mannix, 80; b. Murphy, 80; P.
Rahill, Al; P. Rush, Al; Ed. Lee, AZ; E. Rahill,
30; Rogsson, So; Killeen, So; Corporal J. j.
Rogsson, 40; G. Egan, 27; P. Kearney, 26; J. ].
Loughry, 30: J. D. Loughry. %; Corporal John
Green, Al; j. Fahy, 80; j. Hogan, 80.