Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-15
The Great Outdoors
WORLDS GREATEST SHOOTING
PERFORMANCE WITH RIFLE

Look down the sights of q rife
some day at a half-inch black spot 10
feet away and see what you think of
1t as a bit of scenery to teal to shreds
with ~ calibre bullets.
Figure out how much steadiness
and nerve, what sharpshooting &C
curacy, what dependability of gun
and ammunition 1t would require to
place four successive shots well with
in the circumference of hat circle.
Then estimate just how much more
of the same you would require to re-
peat that operation on four more
similar targets until you had fired a
total of twenty into the heart of the
same sized black spot.
This is not a problem in higher
mathematics nor a prehistoric puZ-
zle. 1t Is simply a way of assuring
you that this is almost all it would
be necessary for you n nine of
your friends to do in order to equal
the rife shooting mark which the
Quinnipiac Rifle and Revolver Club
team of New Haven, Conn, recently
broke all indoor rife records. They
made this phenomenal record on
their indoor range in n of the ten
regular matches for the National
Rifle Association 1920 championship.
Every one of the ten shooters on the
team made twenty consecutive bulls
eyes on the half-inch bull. every bull
let cutting the half-inch circle. Under
the N. r.. A. rules tho five highest
shooters, of the ten shooting in each
match, count for the team score. but
in this case Dot the five highest and
the five lowest shooters a scored
perfect points of ] 900 each, giving a
full team total of 2.000x2, 900.
Best Record Ever Made
Such a score has never before been
made in the N. r. A. Gallery match
es nor is there any record, so far as
we are aware. Of any such score be-
ing made anywhere under similar
conditions by ten shooters of a team
at one time. The composite target of
the entire 200 shots shows them to
have been so placed that a five cent
piece would completely the
entire hole
In one OF its previous matches in
this same competition the Quinnipiac
team scored 19~9Sx2000, nine of the
ten men making perfect scores, n
man dropping two points out OF a
possible 200. So 1t Is evident the
Qutnnipiacs are q dangerous unc
when it comes to rifle competition.
Their Is ever added interest in the
showing made by these riiemen In
this record breaking achievement due
to the fact that they were using In
this and In all their matches the past
winter a new combination of rifle
and ammunition IS a pioneer expert
ment in what can be n with Am
erican made arms and ammunition
in the .22 calibre field. Through the
courtesy Of the Winchester Repeat
ing Arms Company the Quinnipiac
shooters were able to secure the loan
of three Of the new .22 calibre Bolt
Action Winchesters used in the m
ternational small-bore match at
Caldwell asst summer by the Vtctorl-
GUS American team. In these rifles
they used a new ammunition called
Precision"
Father and Son on Team
Another feature about this great
rifle team is the fact that two of the
shooters are father and son. w. II.
Richard Is well known as one of the
worlds greatest rifle shots and needs
no Introduction to followers OF the
sport. We also have Virgil Richard,
Just turned nineteen years. a regular
"chip off the old block" and a mem
Der also of this record breaking com
bi~nation.
The shooters who made the per
| feet team record in the 2,000x2, 900
| match were A. A. Clouet, w. O.. Breu-
Ter, w. II. Richard. =. E. Littlehale,
J. H. J. Adams. Henry j. Gussman'
Virgil Richard, G. wilcox, A. Klock-
err and F.. Haas.