Not so Easy as it Looks The Shanghai Miniature Rifle and Revolver Club is now holding it's monthly club competition, which precedes next month's all-comers' competition, for a gold medal. The Club, which is situated at No. 2 Route clu Say-Zoong, where there are three ranges open from 9.30 a.m. to 11.30 p.m., stands by itself in Shanghai with the distinction of being a "dry club" and, for this reason, women can go there at any time and receive instruction from one of the finest of instructors. The club was started in 1909 at the instigation of Lord Roberts but revolver shooting was not introduced until 1912, which sport is better for women than rifle shooting, according to Mr. Freeman. "It only takes a short time to get into the expert's class," says Mr. Freeman, "if the pupil will only, listen seriously to the instruction and try to follow it." Women are better learners than men because men often think they know how but that they only lack practice, while women are not so sure of themselves and profit by their instruction. English women, too, are generally better shots than American women because the latter are "too frivolous."'
No one can possibly overlook the value of being a good revolver shot; primarily. because the knowledge involves proficiency in handling weapons, teaches the import ance of taking every precaution in Joading and unloading and in the manner of holding guns. No one knows, except by experience, how easily a gun can "go off."
So many people have been accidentally shot by "unloaded guns" that it is unnecessary to show further the value of this knowledge.
Because people have been poorly instructed or not instructed at all, the number of good revolver shots in tha world is only 400, to quote an authoritative sporting paper. Forty of these are in Shanghai and nine of them are women. An ordinary revolver shot will completely miss 2 man at 95 yards. This fact shows the skill necessary) to hit four-inch bull's eye at the same distance. Yet it is true of shooting, as it is of every other game of skill that the secret is in knowing how and those who care to learn will find Mr. Freeman def mite and painstaking and patient.
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