Shanghai Municipal Police invited Commander E. H. Cope, the U. S. Naval Purchasing Officer in Shanghai, to do some practice shooting at the new targets just put into use at the revolver range on Gordon Road.
Since the war proved the old stationary target to be absolutely useless for practice in actual warfare conditions, the Hyde School of Musketry in Englahd has issued entirely new regulations for revolver practice and Inspector W. E. Fairbairn of the Shanghai Municipal Police has installed targets modelled after those of that school so that the course fired is, with slight modifications to suit local conditions, similar to that laid down for the British army.
The idea is to fire as quickly as possible at running figures of men, no time being given for deliberate aim. Commander Cope had never fired at targets similar to these but he said he was willing to try, and, picking out a.45 Colt automatic he started firing at these running, bobbing figures that appeared for about one second at a time. The target always had a rectangular patch in the approximate position of a man's stomach the reason for this being to train the firer to aim in the centre of all targets, this allowing - for greater error in the let off.
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