Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-10
TARGET TIPS AND
HUNTING HELPS

At last l have run down the rail
monkey-wrench thrower in our club,
and he is not our much-abused and
always amusing Doc. Henderson,
either. In fact, owe some apologies
to the old Doc, for | guess | have
even referred to him in my letters to
YOU as being our official trouble
Strator. This young fellow is the
kind that makes a little argument
and Of course there is no easier place,
short of an Irish wake, to start one
than at a gathering or riflemen.
The Ayes (Eyes) Got it in the Eye.
As you will gather from what |
have said this guy doesn't really
know much of anything, one way or
the other, about shooting, and is not
even able to get away with some real
infoImation after it has been dump
ed out for him. to help himself. But
Re always has that uncanny ability
to start something. Well, at our
Waekly shoot last night, down at our
indoor range, he This name is Pike,
tv thea wav). reSurrected an argu-
ment We had a while back, famed 1t
into q blaze, and then like the blame
fool he is. went home before he learn
ed anything.
1t was tre old question of eye
sight and whether or not 1t prevents
the possibility of two or more shoot
ers aligning the sights of rifle III
exactly the same way.
You know, the arms and ammuni-
ton manufacturers have for years
refused 20 admit that given rifle
Of a cretain calber and cartridge
made after a fixed formula, 1t was
PRACTICAL to fit the rifle with rear
sight graduated exactly to the curve
Of that particular combination OF
nile and cartridge and have the steps
on the sight successfully meet the
requirements of even majority OF
shooters. They all along have con
tended, that if, for example the zero
were established at seventy-flve
yaIas and the steps of the sight gave
increase in elevation required for ad-
ditions of twenty yards per
step, some shooters would habitually
shoot under and others would just
as habitually shoot over, no matter
how carefully they sighted.
zen, there were plenty of the boys
who took the other side-they were
the ayes and swore all eyes looked
alike. And at the time of our pre-
vious argument, Tom Prunty, our
president, and the best shot arounc
cur neck of the weeds, himself had
lined up against the manufacturers.
However, old Tom, as you no doubt
have lond since figured out, is not the
kind to stop until he gets to the root
of things, and in the end this last
Ciscl ssIon brought out a talk from
him that did the boys a lot of good.
In the army they have the stunt
Of teaching the principles of sighting
by having the rockies make what
they cal "triangles," A rifle is laid
in q sawbuck sort of arrangement
end tie soldier gets behind it, either
sitting or prone, and looks through
the sights, while a marker twenty
feet or yards in front pushes bulls
eve sighting disc around on a blank
target until the rookie tells him it is
in the right place for the rifle to hit
it 'plumb CENTER" or in words to
that effect. The marker marks on
the blank parer target the position
of tie center of the sighting disc
then removes tire disc, and the rookie
has to direct the placing of the disc
twice more. Then a straight line is
drawn from one to the other of the
three marks made on the blank paper
target, making a triangle, and the