Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-22

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A Searchlight Pistol, German In
yentiOn, Designed to Correct Bad Shoot
ing in Time of Urgent Peril. The
Light-ThrOwing Barrel and Shooting
Barrel Are So Adjusted, the Inventor
Claim, That the Bullet Will Invariably
Strike on the Black Spot Shown in the
Picture, Which is Produced by Black
Centre on the Lens Through Which
the Light Streams. Champion Lane
Thinks Any One Can Lean to Shoot
Well Enough with an Ordinary Pistol;
In the Dark an Ordinary Flash At ;
tached to Pistol Would Reveal to the
Intruder the Position of the House.
holder. This Arrangement of Light,
However, Enables the Latter to "COver"
the Target While Exposing Little of
His Own Body to Return Fire.
by many people that 1t is possible to
sight a gun by instinct just as a man
points his finger. This is not entirely
a delusion, for it can be done quite eff
fectively, for short distances. At ten
feet, say, a man who is familiar with a
gun can point it more or less accurately
but as the distance increases his accuracy
decreases. The reason for this is that
the gun, to hit man, doesn't have to be
aimed directly at a certain spot when the
distance is short. The aim may vary
several inches and still hit an effective
spot but as the distance increases the
aim must be more accurate and this Is
possible only by sighting and careful
shooting.
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merely by finger aiming Is a faulty
method and more or less of a delusion.
If policeman is chasing burglar and
wants to hit him the safest method is to
stop dead still and take good aim.
Shooting while the shooter is running is
dangerous to bystanders, not to the bur-
glar.
Many people, because Of the stray bull
lets that are fired, believe revolver or
a pistol to be dangerous thing; they say
1t kicks up when it is fired and they be-
lieve that a marksman is merely good
guesser in that he can guess how. much
the gun is going to kick and aims his
shot at a correspondingly low point. This
is delusion No. 1881, 002. A gun kicks,
it is true, but the marksman doesn't have
to do any guessing. When the sights are
fixed, allowance is made for the upward
kick due to the recoil and If the sighting
of the shooter is accurate the shot will
be accurate. l now have a gun which
l ordered sighted too low: am gradually
filing the front sight off so that when T
have it where | want it the gun will be
very near absolute dependability.
1t is we'll to explain little about au-
tomatoes; that is the comparatively new
type of gun in which the magazine, or
chamber which holds the bullets, is
showed up into the bottom of the grip or
handle. 1t is commonly believed that
with one Of these guns the shooter pulls
the trigger and holds it back until the
ten shots are fired If this were the case
the gun would kick up a little with every
shot and the shooter would shoot him
self in the face in fraction of a Sec
ond. These guns shoot easily, with a
very slight trigger pull, and are rapid in
action. The weapon is reloaded each
time by the recoil, but the ten shots do,
not fly out on one pull of the trigger, as
IS the case in a machine gun.
The misunderstanding on this point
is doubtless due to two things-to the
rapidity and ease of firing and to the
fact that when the guns were first
brought out there was a tendency for
more than one bullet to come out on one
pull OF the trigger This, however as |
stated, is a serious disadvantage and has
been overcome. The natural tendency in
the automatic weapon is for this to hap
pen, and in the machine gun pneuma-
tic device is attached to lessen the ra-
pidity with which the shots are fired:
as it is, the reports are a sort of buzz,
they are so close together
The great advantage to the man who
takes up shooting as a pastime is that
it gives him something with which to
occupy his mind outside his work. It is
recreatiye in the extreme and isn't tir-
ing. As sport It is different there is
no training, no strain. 1t develops and
steadies mans nerves; if he can stand
up to target and hit it ten times in sue
cession it gives him feeling of mastery
and of selfconfdence He is better able
to look another man in the eye as a man
should do. There are several shooting
clubs and ranges in town where a man
can find facilities for practise, and II ia
not expensive. twenty-five cents worth
of ammunition will furnish an evenings
sport Not very costly, is it? Not much
more than two wet pool games would
cost
And by the way, all that the Sullivan
law does is to make good citizens de.
fenseless, while the crooks carry p7,ns
lust the same