RIFLE SHOOTING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 4

RIFLE SHOOTING.

: . NEW ZEALANDERS AT RANDWICK; Telegraph-Special Correßoondeni.l , ,Tho.Now-Zealand representative riflo - learn, fpr. Sydnoy: on September l2iarriveds afe 1 y after a most, tempestuous trip across, tho; Warnmoo., experienced rough •feather >fronj -the outset, and when well across • .encountered_one'' of tho 1 roughest , 6torms ex,l>enoncea for years.'. / - On -Wednesday, Septombor-29, somo of the ' ; at the range, tut . tlw first official practice, so to speak, ira.s se|; down,for. the following day, when LiontColonel .Hughes superintended tho firing The ';N6ir, Zeafend' m^n..havo-"discovered.' that, the 'eboentrioitie3, of the; Pahdvrick .range have not been overstated. . The trench is", roughly,' seiiiicircular—following tho. contour of the hills behind; ,and thofirmg, moundo, of.'courso, correspond. Oil the flanks, the range is fairly open, - of ; llvelv.'times, when there is

,afiy(frind{about,'. and-wW. there-is-added the :faotd\ thai • the .-range faccs the east, giving a bad -shooting: light m| the morning, and the soil is iof ,-a /loose, j sandy. nature, easily stirred bv tho. wind,;flite-Can/undtotand that, ns a shootoan. bo anything/but. ■Aperturo Sights. . "'• S'-u'" "Wesley Riohards". apertnre sights; have •». number of • admirers at Kandwick.', The New /ealanders have been experimenting /with -these ? more or few?^s^' , "? , ! <K>l,er r Ma » nsi| - (Bketahona .Mounted,Rifles),;/firihg: 'at .800,. 900, and 1000

t H' : ?L' a^a^nie-'amr^«;'i^r 0 . . , P? 11 ! tho first •tiffib ' he' ;Sjght.':; Good /scoring was also Mado by other;members of tho team. - ■'V 1?. MnaM'wii with" the' use. of the "aperture" Matoh ' a Peoul&r. diffi--t n 'uL ' appears that tho' Conditions. 6flecify,.: with regard to sights, . those : used, at liis'oy m lDO","; Obviously 'this is altpr^ ere RV ' tb6 '^", r i hould ta ' To ' b <*n .?s :-it 6 tands, there may bo trouble -fdr the ioperture-worshippers, for the ,now .^ght .only> camerintp: usS at theV 1™ •Bisley i meeting.--.-'.Already,'>two 'of tho States match \ a PMtest-.against its uso in x the '-■The members of ; tho-'ieam are ill in • „„.j .the five Otago: representatives, there are ?T? WW,-,,? : T f K t Willou»hby \~;9. , President Cro,w (Xintfin TSfl» pub),'Xeev(Tnvercareill);- Rifleman Hobbs (P&-t°ne),-,atid,-Trooper ~Mar6nZ i (Eketahuna)' '