VOLUNTEER TARGET PRACTICE.
A shooting match for Easter Monday had been arranged to come off between members of the Cavalry Volunteers of over five yeais service, and those of nndei five years v-ervice, the match to be fired on the Te Awamutu rifle range. A sufficient number ot the former not turning up, those piesent got up a match among themselves, ranges, 200, 300, 400 and 500 yard.s, five shots at each range, any position. Mr B. Lewis, one of the youngest members of the tioop, got fiist hunom^. The target was (! x 4 ; centie, 3 feet diameter ; bull'&-eye, 1 foot diameter. The following are the Bcoies> : —
yoK yds. yds. yds. 203 300 400 500 Tl. Trooper P. Lewis 1!) 17 33 7 515 ImstiuctorCarloy 15 13 11 13 52 Trooper H. Grab am 17 15 12 (> 50 Sorgt. -Major Bond 15 13 9 10 47 TiooperC.F. Storey 15 14 8 7 44 H. Millei 12 15 5 8 40 „W. Floyd 14 10 12 4 40 „A. Miller 4 9 9 2 24 After tbe in.\teh tbe winner entertained those who were present at lunch.— (Own Correspondent.)
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1838, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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188VOLUNTEER TARGET PRACTICE. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1838, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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