RIFLE SHOOTING PRACTICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 8

RIFLE SHOOTING PRACTICE

GUN THAT FIRES A SHADOW IMAGE THROWN ON SCREEN The Shadolite gun for cheapening the cost of shooting instruction was demonstrated to a number of experts, among them Lord Baden-Powell (writes the London correspondent of tlie “Christchurch Press”). This is a projector which throws on a screen the image of a target, and when a tnggei is pressed shows a bullet splash upon

it. . ~ The mechanism, .enclosed a m tlio breech, is simple and ingenious, lhere is a spotlight illuminating a small transparent floating target, an image o which is thrown on £i scrcon when arm is roughly aimed, and a plate trigger pressed by the fingers which gup the small of the butt. . . When the firer is satisfied with his aim he presses a trigger in the normal manner and a transparent slide on which is marked a clot accurately centred with the axis of the bore jumps into position between light and target and the image of a bullet splash appears on the target. By moving the weapon the firer brings the target miage into relation witli his point of flini. The splash shows on the target until the weapon is reloaded by pulling a trigger under the barrel. The light can lie fed from electric mains or irom accumulator batteries. The Shadolite gun is of German origin and is manufactured in this country by Standard Telephones and Cables, Limited. . “With a little more thought given to some small details,” writes a Bisley expert, ’’the gun should prove very useful as a musketry instructor in drill halls and pfaces where range accommodation is limited and the noise of firing undesirable. Though dearer than the air rifle, now a very accurate weapon and exceedingly cheap, it lias the advantage of being without danger in any hands.”