Automatic Pistol Shooting

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f difficulty is that when your aim is right horizo

are getting the right allowance in front in your aim. When it is horizontal, it will show you if your elevation is correct. This can be elaborated by having black bands painted or pasted on the back of an ordinary target, and, with its back towards you, shooting at them. Then, by turning it over after

you will most likely lose your "allowance," and have to go back to the vertical

lternate hands, find the "run"

o'clock" to get a central "bull," the aim should be at the actual elevation you want the bullet to go

ake longer to give the order to the trigger-finger when

ming first contact in eclipses, and each observer deducts his own personal error, whic

t to come up to it; but this is useless, as an

competitions, and swing the whole of the upper part of the body from the hips. Do not swing your right arm, keeping the rest of the body still. The shoulder-joint does not give so smooth a

ertical rise from the shoulder and the horizontal swing of the hips). Let the sights come horizontal to the eyes a little in front of the proposed allowance; and, as you keep your arm moving in front of the bull, gradually let the bull overtak

between runs of the target; it tires the arm, and you cannot

the "run": it is best to fire when you feel you are aiming right, and

did so in my record shoot, at Bisley, where there used to be such a competition: but this is a bad habit to contract, and a risky sort of shot, as it is almost sure to be too far behind, or

can have this target run in front of your disappearing-target apparatus, putting the latter out of the way when not needed; this latter will also serve for stationary-target purposes, and to hold the