RIFLE RECORDS EXTRAORDINARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 6

RIFLE RECORDS EXTRAORDINARY.

Sometimes-', great., event's.; ore ', attended by ') very ..little, fuss.'..Some. : New Zealanders may .. . have' already forgotten that at the Traitliam y ltillo. Meeting in..1909, marksmen of New Zcaland beat the world.;. In view of so much tajk,' , alwut defence, that is'a-very interesting fact. » There were no/fewer, than 245 possibles. Two world's, records and one New Zealand record , , wero; broken. It was a perfectly astonishing • 'performance' throughout. Results 'achieved at,'/ lJisley with the famous Palma -.303 1 cartridge <■ were eclipsed.-■.To- this day the recordsr of tho , great/Trentham.. meeting remain .unbroken. - And yet.tho New-Zealand marksmen, were not. using Palma-cartridges:' They were using the now famous .303 Mark-VI. ■ Military. Regulation ■ . Cartridges, manufactured in the Dominion by the .. Colonial Ammunition Company. Nearly..; ISflUKIO; rounds,; were fired,, and the, ExecutiveOffiier of the N.Z:. Rifle Association reported , had not been a. single complaint ■ Noto£-150,000 New Zealand cartridges,, and- apt one defective ■ All this'counts'as a veritable' and striking triumph for a flourishing New' Zealand . industry., Anyoue acquainted, with the f.rickin-s?s . of ordinary ammunition and tho circumstances.... of great rifle meetings knows that it is, a marvellous .thing to havo no duffer among 150,000, fcartridges.. Here, then, is'proof positive, that ; New Zealand con not only hold her own iu tho industrial, field,' but upon occasion sho can. beat the most famous of ber rivals iu the Old World. . Si9i