A CODE FOR REAL SHOOHliQ:* * ; w ' .v - -
• One of the very best -shooting regiments'in the Army,
the :35th, Infantry-, (Col.Ilciiab'a outfit),has formulated a personal code
for its men, designed to help bring the regiment thru this year’s range
i practice with.,190^ rating* xhe ’’Infantry Journal”,Uay 1923,gives us the
rules that will govern the men of the 25th. V/e take pleasure in passing
4 them along,-for they are well .worth considering. - •
” 1. Don’t stay up. after taps.
. . 2. Don’t smoke to excess during the target season, and re
... frain. fr.on drinking anything intoxicating. ' *
5 ■ * 3. Don’t crab when you think that you have been Sent to
the pits too often.
4- Don'L. fail to keep a neat score-book; it -helps on your
record,
5* Don*t'produce an alibi for every shot that fails to
reach the bull’s-eye. If you pull off,or flinch,admit it^and cor
rect it the next 'tine* • '
6# Don't'fail to "squeeze" the trigger.
7# Do your bestrevery .» shot •
8. Do your crabbing to yourself,* show the world a smile.
9, Center your very existence about the old rifle. Talk,
eat, sleep,and think it.
10. Do all the hard practice you can behind the firing line.
Especially practice the trigger squeeze standing and kneeling#
.11, Do everything you have been instructed to do# Make every
shot count# It takes position,-correct aim,- correct holding of the
breath,-and a real trigger squeeze,-every shot-to make the white
disk come up.
12# Do your part for the regiment by qualifying YOURSELF.
It is YOUR bit,properly done,that will help make the 100% goal."
And if this is the advice of the best authority on marksmanship in the
whole Array,-Colonel "Sandy" He Nab, we can't go wrong in following it.
GEORGE T. says
‘'ANDY GUMP SAYS'that there are two tines in a Ionian’ e
life when man does not
understand her. The first ic-before he marries her. The second is-after
he marries her.
The Coacher: ’ $hat was that last shot?* / .
The Coacftee: 'It was a five leaving here,if it didn’t skid.
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