INDOOR RIFLE PRACTICE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SP IICTALTOR."] SIR,—As you have for a long time taken great interest in rifle practice, I enclose a cutting on that highly important subject taken from the Daily Star, Montreal, dated December 2nd, 1901.—I am, Sir, &c.,
The Mound, Westbournc, Manitoba.
WILLIAM RHIND.
" Several gentlemen prominent in local military circles as well as some well-known civilian rifle shots were on Saturday privileged to attend a private test of a new ammunition just turned out at the Dominion arsenal here. It is the invention of Major Gandet, supt. of the arsenal, and is exactly what is needed for winter indoor target practice, thus supplying a long and
severely felt want. The cartridge contains a reduced charge of powder and a smaller bullet than the service cartridge. . . . . . The ammunition can be used from any rifle of .303 calibre, no adapter being necessary, and thus the marksman comes to know his own rifle as well as if be were using it out of doors. Moreover, he can also use it as a magazine ammunition and likewise as a riot cartridge The cartridges can be manufactured with the present Govern- ment plant at a cost of less than a cent each, and another advantage is that they have not to be imported, while no adapter or tube has to be used, as with the Morris tube and the Molineux patent manufactured by the Kynochs. Saturday's test was of a most practical description, and all present unhesitatingly en- dorsed the ammunition and targets. The rifles used included private Winchester rifles of '303 calibre and both long rifles and carbines of the Lee-Enfield pattern taken indiscriminately from
the rack Major Gaudet says that in the event of his ammunition and target being adopted at once he can have one million rounds ready by June, and he expects to shortly give demonstrations of them at Ottawa and possibly at Montreal. With the short outdoor shooting season at the command of the Canadian militiaman this invention promises to become one of the greatest boons imaginable."
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