The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-12

in this kind of shooting can plant A
| calliber bullets in Il space the size OF
mans body at forty or fifty yards In
rapid succession with rarely miss.
The long barrelled revolvers, inch
6is inch, inch and ~ inch, give
greater accuracy than the short-bar-
relied weapons. Being heavier. they
do not throw up so much. and are
capable OF being held steadier But
| the difference between shooting with
! them and with the short pistols is so
| marked that excellence with either is
a separate and distinct art. To shoot
we'll with 2ls inch, or Sls inch bar
| rel off-hand. and at ranges from
twenty to fifty yards distance. is a
! very uncommon accomplishment. BY
| shooting we'll, l mean shooting quick
| ", and with a fair degree of accur-
| acy for nine shots out of ten. There
| is nothing very difficult in taking one
| of the short -barrelled reyolverS in both
hands and making good scores at tar
| gets This can be learned byt, prac-
| tice.
But the ability To shoot Off-hand
with the short barrelled guns" hold
| inc the weapon in one hand, is IL
science. 1t Is not to be mastered by
| simply thruSting out the revolver.
aiming and firing, Most revolvers of
this kind and even the long-barrelled
ones. are built with IL rib above the
barrel. and u high. coarse sight above
the rib, to make up for the tendency
of the weapon to raise or throw up
In deliberate target shooting by the
novice so much time is generally
taken to get aim that the hand of
the shooter 'wabbles," and his shots
go far and high. The first thing to
do after getting revolver is to clamp
II in wise between two pieces of
wood, and find out il it is absolutely
accurate. If five or six bullets all go
about i'm the same spot when the re-
volver Is fired. the gun is all right.
Next go to a first-class gunsmith, ana
have him reduce the trigger pull.
Nearly all revolvers pull too hard on
the trigger
A hair trigger balance is of course,
to he avoided, but moderately easy
pull is highly desirable for the sake
of accuracy. The next thing to do
is to apply the principles of snap
shooting with the shotgun or archery
practice to your shooting with the re-
volver. Shoot with both eyes open.
Don't try to drive tacks with a bullet,
but do try To get so that you can hit
"A spot as big as Il saucer al ten, tWen-
ty or forty yards. Practice shooting
at all angles, up and down, sideways.
quartering shots, on the water,
straight up in the tree or directly
down hill, Learn your weapon thor
oughly. Find out just how much ii
throws up. ana mstinctively allow for
that raise as You pull the trigger.
Don't use II revolver that shoots To
either one side or the other. shoot
by intuitive judgment, not by taking
aim but simply by holding the revol-
Yer firmly and getting the angle with
both eyes. as wing shot does with a
shotgun or a skilled archer does with
bow.
A man should be able in this way to
shoot IA squirrel out of tree, or even
a duck on the water, good long dis
tanCe away. When going To mill in
Iowa with General Hardeman i'm my
boyhood days, | saw him kill seven
prairie chickens from the wagon in
seven consecutive shots With a 44-
calibre cap and ball revolver. Every
chicken was shot at least twenty five
yards away, and in two or three in