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GREAT SHOOTING

A MARLBOROUGH RECORD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM. June 6 Remarkable shooting by B Masefield. son of Captain Masefield. King's Prizeman at the National Rifle Meeting, Trentham. was a feature of the Marlborough championships. In ten shots each.at the 300. 200, 500, and 600 yards ranges he dropped only three points, scoring 49. 50. 50. 48. and a grand total of 197 out of a possible 200. He won the championship belt and several other trophies. In a sequence of 40 shots Masefield got fours with his first, thirty-fourth, and thirty-ninth shots, all the rest being bull's-eyes This performance :s considered a record for Marlborough. and must necessarily run closely any similar record for a provincial meeting in the Dominion. Conditions at the beginning of the shooting were not good, light rain imI pairing visibility, but as the day drew lon the weather improved.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 17

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GREAT SHOOTING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 17

GREAT SHOOTING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 17