The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-31
THEY SHOOT
i, FOR RECORDS
Militiamen Who Want to
Take Trip to
Seasirt.

The record shoot competition which
is being held at the Kahauiki range tt
pick rife team to go to Seagirt
N. j., is still progressing, but will b.
over in a few days as only the s0'
and 1000 yard ranges remain.
Considering the very poor ranges
many of the men have made remarka
BILE scores and the team when picked
ought to make a splendid showing con
they have worked.
Captains Smith and Wolf of the 4tf
Infantry, who will be members of the
Army team in the Seagirt contest
passed through here recently and after
seeing the Kahauiki range preferred
not to shoot on it as it was the poor
est they had ever seen.
The targets are several feet in the
air while at Seagirt they are on the
level sand. The men when shooting
have to lie on embankments or benches
to see the targets above the bushes.
On the long distance ranges the range
flags show that the wind blows in sew
eral different directions over the course
owing to the gulches and the ravines
and hills DETECTING the wind.
Yesterday morning the men were do
ing Skirmish work, and this is the
hardest for the local men for the rea-
son that they have had less of that
kind of work than any other. The skir-
mish work consists in shooting from
varying distances from 600 yards to
200 yards.
The men yesterday fired twice from
600 yards distance, ran to the 500-yard
point. were allowed Is seconds to adj
just their sights and 80 seconds to fire
two shots. At the 400 and $50 yards
line they had to fire 8 shots in 30 sec
onds. Five shots were fired in 80 sec
onds when 800 yards from the target,
and at the last firing line 200 yards
distant, it was necessary to fire shots
in 20 seconds. The course was gone
over twice in this manner one time
after another, and it is easy to see
that On a hot day such as yesterday
this feat required strenuous work, but
in spite of it ALL some fine scores were
made. Col. Jones when seen last night
expressed great satisfaction at the re-
suits of the shooting as far as it has
gone.
1.-The shooting has been very good for
our range he said, land few of the
men over-shot, SO the percentage OF
shots will be much greater on a range
like the one at Seagirt which is per-
fectly level, so that if the bullets
richochet, as they often do, and hit
the target, the hits will be counted.
"Our record as we have shot in now
is so good that if the men do not keep
up to practice and go as far behind
it as points per score per man we
will still be within the first IA teams
who completed at Seagirt last year.
Without question the shooting shows
that we will do as we'll as most OF the
teams at Seagirt last year, judging
from the record competitions and what
the men have done in practice, and
under fair conditions of range and
weather the probable team which will
be selected, will I believe come with
in the first ten teams which will COM
pete at the national tournament this
year.
The men who are practicing in hopes
of making the team which will consist
of twelve men and three alternates are
as follows:
Col. Soper, Captains Sam Johnson,
Merle Johnson, Rose, Coyne and
Thompson; Lieutenants Wise, Coster,
Cummins and Whitehead; Sergeants
Devauchelle and Ellis, and Privates
Gouveia. Ferreira and Todd.
If the team from these Islands can
obtain a place among the first four
teen teams they will be doing unusu-
ally we'll as most of the winning teams
have competed for five years or longer
before taking prizes. The Hawaiian
team will be picked from probably but
a few companies, not over battalion
at best, and they will compete against
teams picked from the entire .. 5.
Army numbering 10000 men, the navy
and marine corps. The team winch
won the first prize last year was from
New York state and was picked from
twelve regiments.
The men will leave on the Solace or
Lawton this week if possible, or else
go on the Alameda.
There have been some humors at
tendant upon the making up of the
team that have not. as yet, been re-
lated. OF course, the team is some
what topheavy in the matter of officers.
but it will be none the worse nor any
the less at home because of that. The
militia of all the states is the same