12 AUGUST 1949, Page 15

RIFLES AT BISLEY

Sin,—The Martini-Henry rifle was certainly used at Flisley in 1896. I still have the rifle which I used in that year throughout the meeting, and a number of the surplus rounds which in those spacious days we were allowed to take away with us. I fired two or three a few weeks ago and found that the noise, the smoke and the kick of the black powder and the lead bullet were wholly unimpaired, even after fifty-three