RIFLE CLUBS.
[To THE EDITOR OF TUN " SPECTATOR:1
Sin,—Referring to the letter of Mr. Ellis de Vesian's in your issue of September 27th concerning the utility of "miniature" practice as a training for Service conditions, I am pleased to be able to endorse his view of its efficacy. Having been in- strumental in the formation of the Stevenage Rifle Club (the first of any of the "miniature" clubs to be started), I have received many interesting confirmations. One of our members, on passing his tests for the S.S. Company of the Imperial Yeomanry, made an exceptionally good score, and greatly surprised the range officer, when the latter complimented him on his performance, by informing him that he had never before fired a Lee.Enfield, a full Service cartridge, or at a greater range than one hundred yards. The officer was also most complimentary as to the instruction be had received as a member of the Stevenage Rifle Club. We use Martini rifles with Morris-tubes, and have this past season installed a "running man" target with excellent results. The figure has a "run" of twenty-five yards, and is fired at from one hundred
yards range.—I am, Sir, &c., J. E. R. DE VESIA.N,
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