Rifle Practice.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 113, 8 April 1884, Page 2

Rifle Practice.

Eoferring to the fact that a volunteer well known at Wimbledon (Mr Hay) had wriftion't6 The'T^mes urge riflemen to use two eyes m shooting in'i(&M r .6VM9i' th'e S^Xiiamesl^iKjfflet remarks : — " The present method pmcticed by most of, , pur target shots of shutting one eye and looking through the sightpvitk toother is unnatural, he tells jls^nM afl&flliftsmen know that after a time it causes a painful ite^Mr^i^^^-jgeQd^^c-(fording to Mr Hay, it is a "device »vhich cannot be used with any degree of success on a "BatEle-field, where the light is shifting and uncertain, where thervlew^isldWurVdV'bV im^)ke, and where, m short, the soldier wants to have both ey^oßen^tc^see the moving objects at which he is~aiming, however useful it may bejfor shooting at a fixed target with the sights accurately adjusted to a range which, of course, is kriowtf tdiVyara^l'ftfJrtfce ifcsyteo^Vat *£? t F?*?»,yP can agree, with Mr Hay. 1 Thtf dbnatlilb'n^utiayr^h^ftifif^M-a and yolunt^er8 T pjja J <;tice their shooting, or ralher their aiming, aro altogether tliijse^of .the battle-field, itod tornrabo-ut tfe^oirstrpossiblJtralning for the latter. But it is questionable whether, with "our present riflo* sights, most men would find themselves able to aim with both ejes open. The optician rather than the gUß&aker Mfet HefconSuKei imhe matter."