Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-28
RIFLE RANGE TO CEASE
PUBLISHING BULLET
Mid Month Appearance OF Little Maya
zine VIII BE lis Last. Is
Announcement

with the cessation of activity at the
Glen Burnie naval rifle range on &C
count OF the end of the war the Bull
let" the official publication there, has
reached an end OF its usefulness and
the mid-month appearance OF this peri
odical is it's last. With the money re-
naming in the treasury after their
magazine has passed ont OF existence
the Jack tars. who have published it
nine months. donated a davenport to
the new Red Circle club. of the
War Camp Community Service. at 625
St Paul street, Baltimore.
This piece of furniture. which has
/ cen placed in the main living room at
the club, will bear an inscription stat
ing it's donation.
The Bullet was semi-monthly pub
location and II ran through Is issues.
More than $4,000 copies have been
sold, and while its principal appeal
was to soldiers. sailors and marines
who shot at the range large number
of copies were sold outside this circle.
The last issue, dated December Is,
published a summary of the work
which was done at the old Saunders
Range from December 81, 1917, when
the first contingent of men reported
there, until November 80 of this year,
during which period nearly $4,000
men were trained in target practice.
First, the construction program, in
volving the enlargement of the range
facilities, was carried through. The
largest single item was the erection of
butts to accommodate SO new targets. A
conception of the magnitude of this
task may be gained from the following
quotation from THE Bullet"
1.-The size of the job may be judged
wall of $500 cubis feet of clay, the
wall being 10 feet high above target
base, II feet wide at base and feet
at top, the length for "a Aiken targets
being $40 feet This required an exca-
walton in front of the butts 30 feet in
width and 21a feet in depth. The exca-
walton beneath the markers tread was
so made as to provide good surface
drain, at bottom of which tile drain
has been constructed on the whole
length of the butts and passes under
the three target houses"
The whole building program was
carried out on the same scale, and it is
said that this range is now one of the
best equipped in the country.
In the work of training rifiemen, the
first step was to train efficient coaches
and Lieut.-Co W. c. Harllee. who was
placed in charge of the range, secured
a corps of experts.
Prospective coaches had to qualify
as both an army and navy expert and
learn the mechanism and control oil
the target butts; he also had to learn
the mechanism and firing of the Lewis
and Colt machine guns and the mech.
anism and firing of the Colt automatic
pistol and double action revolver.
AT the same time that the range was
being improved with modern facilities
and buildings and an expert corps OF
instructors were being trained, mer
from army and navy units, state
troops. college students and civilians
we're being put through courses In
small arms firing. Up to July 1, 1900
men shot at the range, of whom 1,70(
qualified as marksmen, SSS as sharp.
shooters and SCI as expert rifiemen.
From July l to November 30 1880
men arrived at the range-71 from the
navy, 81 from the marines, 1883 from
the army, AL state troops and 524
civilians. The army corps comprising
this number came principally from
Camp Meade. During the period TO-
942 men qualified as marksmen OIL
higher.
In accomplishing these results a
total of 3,6S3,S00 rounds of rife am
munition were fired. Thirty-three
thousand four hundred rounds of pistol
ammunition and $4,000 rounds of re-
volver ammunition were also ex-
pended.