Author : R. V. Harvey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
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ISBN : 9781334160868
Book Description
Excerpt from The Black and Red, Vol. 2: Special Christmas Number, 1910 The Rockliffe Range is about yards long by 200 yards wide. The highest firing point is yards and the lowest 200. The greater part of the shooting is at 200, 500, 600. Nearly all visiting competitors camp on the range for the week, and last summer there were a large number. Meals are served in a building on the range during the meeting, besides which there are several quick-lunch counters. The Ross Rifle Company has a tent there for the time, and does a good deal of small business. All Sunday we loafed about the range, as the weather was very hot, and prepared for the shooting on Monday. Early Monday morning we shot in some extra series matches, and although our scores were not much to boast of we corrected our errors in sighting. About the Tyro match, 500 yards, one of the scoring matches for the Canadian team, was shot. I tried to shoot well, but I was nervous and fired too quickly, making a poor score bell-irving had settled down better and made 28. Then in the Bankers' 600 yards, my score was fair, the only match in which I beat bell-irving, considering that it was my second trial at 600. School Cadets' match in the afternoon, 200 yards, I made 26, and bell-irving 29. This gave bell-irving a chance to shoot on the Canadian team. In the Cadets' match I shot at the same butt with a cadet captain, Crawford, from Quebec, with the result that the score keeper was twisted, but it made no difference as we tied - 5 inners, 2 mags. Each. This finished my shooting, but bell-irving shot in the Lord Roberts and made 58, coming second. Wednesday we loafed and went sight-seeing. Thursday morning we went over the Eddy Match and Paper Factory. In the afternoon Mr. Harvey and bell-irving went over the Royal Mint, and I went to Montreal for two days. I went from Montreal to Ottawa on the Imperial Limited. They got on and we came back in time for the Xmas term. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.