MINIATURE RIFLES

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 32, 21 April 1931, Page 6

MINIATURE RIFLES

THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS."

(Paste up in Clubroom).

A fertile brain has conceived a veritable array of "shalts" and "shalt nots" in connexion with miniature rifle shooting. Thou shalt read what he hath to say, take it to heart and put it into practice. (1) Thou shalt have no other clubs before thine own, and thou shalt love it with ail thy soul and strength and mind. (2) Thou shalt pay thy subscription without being unnecessarily pursued for it. (3) Thou shalt have as many shoots as possible during the evening, even that the coffers of the treasurer may wax exceeding fat. (4) Thou shalt not envy thy neighbour's score, nor his attitude, nor his style, nor anything that is thy neighbour's. (5) Thou shalt not make foolish excuses for thy rotten score, for thy handicapper is a jealous handicapper, visiting handicaps on the good and bad alike. (6) Thou shalt not talk unduly loud at the scoring desk, nor make unseemly cat-calls to the markers, for the duties of the range officer are urgent enough without listening to the vapid babblings of the unwise. (7) Thou shalt not fail to attend on the night that thou art range officer, and at the conclusion of the shoot thou shalt clean the rifles and see that the range is in .true and trim order before leaving. This is the greatest commandment of them all. (8) Thou shalt help thy neighbour in all that seemeth seemly; thou shalt pass his block of ammunition to him when he is on the mound, if he has forgotten it, and do any little kindness thou canst for him. (9) Thou shalt not dispute a gauged shot, neither shalt thou try to convince the marker that a skinny eight is a bull half in. (10) Thou shalt throw all empty shells into the receptacle provided, and scrap paper into the box (also provided), and thou shalt generally behave thyself like a true sportsman, and when thy Catpain maketh his speech at a match, thou shalt cheer most lustily, in order that the handicapper and selectors may look favourably upon thee. This is the commandment of promise.