RANGE NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 7

RANGE NOTES.

THE MARKER WHO WAS HURT. Gunner Wntkins, the marker who was slightly injured i« the trench while marking in a service match on the Collins Range on Saturday is reported to be progressing favourably. Ho was examined under the X-rays at the barracks, on his arrival at the depot, but no missile, or particlo of one, could bo found. Eighteen competitors who wero expected at the range on Friday have failed to arrive, and the number of men now shooting is really 30". The non-appearance of these eighteen means, in cold cash, a further loss of £~>i to the funds of the association, as each competitor for the 13 and C. series' of matches pays JJ3 in enfranco fees. In spite.of this loss, the executive has decided to make no further alteration in the prize list. The Canadian position—where the competitor lies flat on the ground, with his rifle pressed to the ground by the weight of his own, body, instead of being gripped into the shoulder and clear of the ground —has been used a good deal in the service mutches, and is .said to have given great results, despite the "Canadian Face" apt to be acquired when the rillc stock recoils, and brings the end of the bolt in collision with'the cheek of the shootist. This) position has' now been barred.