New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
FOREIGN RESORTS.
Hotel Victoria VA nu,r.
Hotel Jungfrau a''''''
Hotel 8eIv0d0r0 A'''s''

bird, assuming that it is at a distance of
thirty or forty Yards
This method most sportsmen prefer TO
! undertaking to mentally measure off a
specified distance ahead of the bird and
Shoot at that, as is done in rife shooting
IN holding Off to one side of the target
IN wind II the bird is an incomer-that
IS, flying directly toward the man-whlch
Is what an aeroplane would be likely 10
do the sportsman would raise his shotgun
until the muzzle entirely obscured the
game and then shoot. If it was going
away he would shoot under il. This is so
different from rife shooting that only those
rlffemen who are familiar with the use OF
shotsuns know how rife should be aimed
IN order TO hit an object moving in the
air, and the sighting of a military rife is
so absolutely different from that of shot
gun that very few of those who actually
know what they ought to do are able to
do it with any certainty. While / myself
have often fired with rife at large birds
while flying. I cannot recall but one hit.
Rapid Snap Firing Difficult.
The army is introducing shooting at NOV
ing objects. which when carried out will
work a reformation in this respect But
on the military rifles are simplifed so az
to permit it TO be done properly. il must
be a good while before any considerable
number (either of regulars or national
guardsmen will become proficient The
ordinary soldier. however skflfuI he may be
in shooting at fixed mark with the fine
sights which he is accustomed to use. and
in doing which he takes his time is help
Lace II IA
which is Indispensable to hit an aeropIane
and those who have been most accustomed
to the former kind of shooting will find
the latter very difficult
As an iliustra ton, I may say that L did
not take up wing shooting until middle
life, having devoted myself prior to that
time 10 rife shooting ana it took me at
least two years after 1 began the former
before I could adapt myself 10 what I knew
was necessary so as to become proficient
mentary that no one can become a good
wing shot unless his gun fits him; that
is TO say, it must have such a bend anu
he throws it up with the rapidity which is
required in case he is shooting at a moving
object the barrel must be directly level
with his eye and pointed at the object at
which he is looking Il is only when this
is tho case that a man is enabled to sud
IDENTIFY turn and throw his gun to his shout
der and cut down bird going at an angle
at the rate of thirty miles an hour be
fore it has gone sixty feet, and It takes an
man long time to know how
a gun should be made so as TO fit him"
This illustrates what I meant in the
contained In the article that
did not believe It was possible to make
anything in the nature of artillery which
it would be possible to move with the
rapdity which is necessary in order to hit
a mark which is like flying swallow.
Naval Guns and Proiectiies.
I am aware that our naval guns are so
that aim can be maintained with
out regard to the ships rolling. and think
that a large dirigibIe balloon having a
steady flight could be hit by a heavy gun
If not too high up. But an aeroplane is a
different proposition, and I hardly think
that Rear Admiral Swinburne intended to
include that in what he said. Although
guns have been made which can ne shot