Good Shooting.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 36

Good Shooting.

Shooting at a dummy aeroplane and a dummy battery was carried out very successfully by two companies of tlie sth North Lancashire Territorial Regiment, who were having week-end practice at Broadhead Valley range, Entwistle. First a monoplane hove in sight, and in half a minute a rifle bullet had ripped through its body, while another shot caught the “aviator” sitting within and “killed” him. A moment later the battery of horse artillery came into sight, but before they had gone twenty yards the "leader” went over with nine bullets in him; next the second horse with three bullets in him, and the first driver, the second driver, and the man on the limber of the gun were all shot. The mechanism of these new targets is the idea of Captain Whinney, of the Royal Fusiliers, adjutant of this force of Territorials. The aeroplane, ten feet long, runs on a steel wire which stretches right across the valley. It is hulled up by a rope, and on release slides by gravity down the wire.