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Updated: June 2, 2025
At a target, they shot with bows and arrows, and the boys were allowed a little rifle-shooting. There was that funny game of picking up potatoes with teaspoons, followed by a rollicking romp at Blindman's Buff.
We then ran in the gun and secured it. We performed the same operation the next day, the whole crew being also exercised at the guns. We then took a turn at rifle-shooting and sword-exercise.
The nets had been arranged with perfect stillness, and the men having concealed themselves, we were placed in positions on the extreme flanks with the rifles. Rifle-shooting was dangerous work, as the country was alive with people, who were hidden in every direction. I took my position behind a white-ant hill in front of a stream which rippled in a hollow about forty yards beneath me.
"Painfully competent," replied his lordship. "If you don't believe me, ask the under-keeper." "It is the only thing I can do," I explained modestly. "Rifle-shooting is my trade, and I have made a habit of practising at birds on the wing with ball.
A bottle of rich milk will therefore produce three bottles of wholesome drink. This is far preferable to the use of spirits, which are merely a temporary stimulant, and frequently are great enemies to good rifle-shooting. Molodi's basket was arranged with a white napkin over the contents.
Arrival of Jung Bahadoor in Ceylon Voyage to Calcutta Rifle practice on board the Atalanta Rifle-shooting Colonel Dhere Shum Shere A journey along the Grand Trunk Road of Bengal The experimental railway The explosion at Benares.
"I never could get the hang of rifle-shooting," he announced disgustedly, "but when it comes to close range with a gat I'm right there. I guess I might as well overhaul mine and limber it up." He went below and came back with a huge '44 automatic pistol and a handful of loaded clips.
Nine inches of penetration is equal to six hundred yards, and twelve inches is good for a thousand. A striking proof of the prevailing ignorance of scientific principles in rifle-shooting is afforded by the fact that it is still a very common practice to vary the charge of powder according to the distance to be shot.
Some of the "blue-coats" were, he knew, but Sile was not a blue-coat. He had heard stories of the prowess of other pale-faces, but Sile was a mere boy, and dreadfully green to the ways of the plains and mountains. He could not think of one boy of his band who really knew less of the things most important to be known, except rifle-shooting.
"These words," said the Duke, "apply to the anti-patriot, the pro-Zulu, the pro-Boer, the inciter to rebellion in Egypt, and to the stirrer-up of strife in India. I do not see why rifle-shooting should not become a popular national sport, equal in prestige to games like cricket and football."
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