A range of 100 feet and a bulkhead 25 feet square is all that is required to make perfect facilities for shooting at reduced still, or running targets, or at balls thrown in any direction; and for ball shooting only, a range of 30 feet is sufficient.
A club of ten or twenty can build and run such a range anywhere, even within city limits, at a very light expense; or it is exceedingly profitable to run one and charge for the shots or ammunition, as a private enterprise.
In this manner unlimited practice can be had at a very light expense.
It may be offered, simply as a suggestion, that the method of practice recommended in the preceding pages, might be of service in teaching recruits to handle firearms.
Practice in hitting moving objects inspires a confidence which can not be obtained in any other way, and the repetition of the three motions of loading, extracting, and aiming and firing, habituates the learner to a free use of the arms and a confidence in pulling the trigger.
In the German army they aim and snap an unloaded piece repeatedly as an exercise, considering the pulling of the trigger a necessary finish to the motion of aiming.
Aided by a minimum expense, light report, easily-acquired range facilities, and a most-fascinating system, might not the practice be carried to firing and hitting, which is the desired result?
This need not at all interfere with the manual, but can be practiced as an outside exercise; and the result of adopting it would be felt immediately by a company, not only in the ease and quickening of motion and the improved marksmanship, but in the increased interest it would create among the members.
Drawing of men shooting
CALIFORNIA
PARLOR ROWING BOAT APPARATUS.
(Patent Applied for.)
See Cut and Price-List on Following Page.
1. It teaches both arms to pull alike.
2. It compels the feathering of the oar.
3. The stroke is even throughout.
4. There is no aid or resistance to the return.
5. It is perfectly clean, as no oil should be used about it.
6. Slots in the casting, where the end of the oar is made fast to the out-rigger, permit the lifting of the blades in returning.
7. All oarsmen unite in pronouncing it a perfect teacher of rowing.
8. Men practicing in the double skull or four oared patternMUSTall do the same work, and their coach can stand over them and direct their actions.
1. It exercisesALLthe muscles of the body and strains none.
2. It can be regulated by the set screws to accommodate any strength and size of person, and is as well adapted for the use of ladies and children as gentlemen.
3. Its use for five minutes each morning, immediately after getting out of bed, will cure any case of dyspepsia, because of the easy exercise of the muscles of the stomach, the improved respiration and the accelerated circulation of the blood.
4. The sliding seat aids fleshy people in taking the stroke, and for them is a most excellent exercise.
It takes but little room, is clean, and fascinates all, both ladies and gentlemen, because it is practical in teaching a useful and graceful accomplishment, and at the same time inviting health.
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CALIFORNIA
PARLOR ROWING BOAT APPARATUS.
[Patent Applied For.]
Man using rowing apparatus
A perfect Rowing Machine, and the New Health Pull for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children.
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Packed in pieces for shipment, readily put together. Address with cash,
HORACE FLETCHER,Shattuck & Fletcher,520 Commercial St., San Francisco, Cal.
Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.