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Rapid Rifle Shooting.

"Shooting at the word is the first rate practice. It trains the ye and the hand to work together and get the forefinger into the habit of pressing the trigger at just the right moment. Grasp the rifle in the Kentucky manner or in Dr. Carver's style, holding the butt just below the elbow, and keep the eye fixed upon the mark. If you can shoot with both eyes open so much the better. At the word "Fire!" bring the butt to the shoulder quickly and raise the barrel until the sights are in line with the mark, pressing the trigger as soon as you see them in line. You must shoot after the word "Fire!" and before the counter finishes counting three like the tick of a clock. With practice the rifle will come into position instantly, the eye will telgraph to the forfinger that the aim is right and the finger will press the trigger unconsciously. Men who practice this style of shooting can do more accurate work at the word than in taking deliberate aim, and they will fire when the counter says 'One.'

"Another good plan is to take a repeating rifle- a Winchester, for example- and try to put as many shots as possible into the bull's eye as rapidly as the gun can be fired. Try for accuracy first and repidity by degrees. It is well to vary the mark and not shoot at a round black bull's eye all the time. Fire at swininging balls, suspended bullets, white objects, things of irregular shape and neutral color, and then have somebody toss up balls or blocks of wood and shoot them on the wing. It is not so difficult to hit glass balls in the air as some people fancy. That kind of shoooting, as preformed in the shows, is nothing but a fake. The ball is thrown from an old fashioned Bogardus trap, that tosses it easily and on just the smae curve every time. The shooter draws a bead on a certain point on the [word?], and when the ball comes into line he lets her go. More than that, these fake shooters don't use bullets. Here is one of the Wild West syle of Winchester cartriges. You see it in a brass shell filled with bird shot. That kind of ammuniton is made in large quantities at the factoriesfor these phenomenal riflemen. Carver actually shot bullets his first season, but it was unsafe, and he adopted the shot cartridge finally. No man witha bit of sense in his head would fire rifle bullets around as Buffalo Bill pretends to do. He might kill somebody a mile off after smashing a glass ball in the air. These wonderful feats of shooting glass balls from horseback with a rifle are actually performed with bird shot that scotters over a space of several feet. Any fair wing shot couldn't help smashing the balls. --New York Sun.