TALL SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3037, 26 March 1917, Page 4

TALL SHOOTING

CONVERSATIONAL M tfSKETRr.

"There's 3,'lofc of luck °?.#e range,even if you are a good, shot, tiea* dier 'said, : "and you . want to , keep a chatty •conversation with■ h™;P™C- ' tuated. you migHeay.^h. rifle shote " 'This is the':kind of weather tor mushrooms,' 'I might siyV. ••■.. ..\ ... ..; "'Too'true, , he repb.es, turning; -his. eyes towards me. ,~. , . "Bang! goes my rifle, and 'while lie is trying to pick my target out of the C^r^s'tbetwWißg^ek-i is it?'■ be -says, -pencils: it' down. 'Didn't 6ee ansthiug on the M some good shooting put up ""Not by you,?- he retorts, once mors regarding me. :• ■ • -.-.; :? j .L, rtJ . ' "Bang I -she. goes agauv and.-there. b a sure three Lo • be recorded .. By the '"Now I'm a pretty good rule. But one dav I:was clean ott r Ind the N.C.O. wouldn't take his eyes off the--target. - ~ - , u «l ■'• 'You've missed , the target altogether,, V he announces. 4 the endoi &■ ■ . "-t '■'.'•. " ' '"-■ V „ ' ■.' : ■ him that : usukUy I . was a: pretty good shoß. The marker -a*.the. Lgets must be .asleep or dead, I say a.. '"Something wrong somewhere; yoiid ! -better have another five shots, , is his I takes very^careful ate., and fires, without any chatty conversational interlude. There -to a pame. Then the flae waves for a. bull s-eye. ■■'"That's better, , says the sergeant.

m »°Holdon ; ,l ca n do,bettei'.;'tha a the flag wave f ,The sergeahtmajor was going to write down a four. Bufclsaye: • "Then" 1 the twirling stack goes'up.for a two, and a ; bullet pinged over our he " d |i X inone shot, , ' he says, not noticing the bullet. ' • " 'Yes, that is my famous: boomerang shot. Into the target, through the "bull," and hack the ','outer^ , Usually the bullet kills my fire director as a, finish.' /"Hold on,' he says, 'don'tfire any more.' I'm., marking you down: for nve hulls. , ";:■ ••■'(.'•■:' .'■■.■, : . - : .'■■'