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Shooting the Shoots
By Wilbur Bogers
riaf^e bureau. Nothing of the sort. I’m
liere to tell anyone who has the courage
to read this article that I’m a nut, a bug.
I like tennis. I can sit through a foot
ball game without yawning. I have even
been known to be among those present
at a world series party. But I do none
of tlicse things when the range calls
And it is not the kitchen range either.
Everyone knows Annie Oakely. Every- Personally, I’m for the rifle shooting
body knows she can shoot as easily as game. But I readily and
she can eat. And, at the same time, ‘'heerfully admit there is a thrill in a
everybody knows that Annie Oakley is gun or a rvolver and even the ma-
the best shot that tliere is, and that it is chine guns carry their full portion of
impossible for everybody to be exactly real pleasure. Did you, by chance, ever
like her. have* the opportunity to shoot a ma-
Having relieved the system of that ohine gun?
mass of complicated English, let us con- That, if I may run away a second from
sider the case. Annie Oakley has been the main discourse, is a peculiar point
shooting—weir, say for a great many with me. Not so long ago I enlisted in
years. Not that she would object to the New \ork State Guard for the avow-
stating her age, but, to be frank, I do reason •that I was going into a com-
not know it, and I have no means of paiiy which was a machine gun outfit,
fii'ding it out. And two weeks after I had joined the
But I do know one thing about her. blamed thing they made it a field gmi
Annie Oakley certainly can shoot. artillery regiment. O temporal
■ ' reniembcr dangling my skinny The fact is, courageous friends, that
logs off the softer side of a hard pine yf>n have merely to place a shot gun or
red seat and watching her do it. Bos- a rifle into your hands and let go at
ton, in those innocent days, had no something tangible to get what I mean,
police strikes upon which we could prac- ^laybe you Avon’t hit something tangible
tice, and Ave were forced to get our ap- the first time you try. But you will stay
preciation of good shooting from Buff- out there imtil you do.
alo Bill and the foUoAving of hectic After that you may be seen any bright
young men and women which was his. (^'Miing informing your friends that you
When Miss Oakley whanged away at are Di'adwood Dick in disguise and that
one, two, three, or even a dozen glass you can hit anything from the elongated
balls, we w'ere sure of the same result, s^ide of a barn door to the top of a pin
Those balls Avere going to break into at .‘^(>1 yards. Shooting gets us all that
more pieces than your pet china does way just as golf does,
when you are not watching your Slavonic At that, the shooting liar is a jolly sort
Jimid with care. It’s an axiom. It’s of cuss, lie Avill tell the crowd at the
as certain at taxes and death, to be ‘lnb how inufh real ability he has, and,
original. when he gets to the range, and makes
The point lies hero. Just because his paltry .'>1 or 32 out of a hundred,
Annie Oakley can do it so easily is no he’ll rub his wrist gingerly and wonder
reason AV'hy the rest of us shouldn’t prac- if the bridge game last night Avasn’t too
tice. We Avill probal)Ty never accjuire strenuous on his delicate tendons. But
her ability, but I’ll remark that Ave are don’t be too hard on him. You take the
sure to get her enthusiasm. gun and ])robably you’ll shoot away your
Shooting has that effect. If you Avish inhei-ent honesty too.
a complete rest in the seclusion of the Just to sIioav AAiiat a real thrill there
veranda or the depths of the porch ham- is in shooting, consider this. Last Au-
mock during this winter vacation, stay gust there was a party of New York
rigidly away from a gun, be it a shot- iieAA'spapennen visiting the Caldwell, N.
gim, a revolver, or a rifle. If you don’t J. range, Avhich is the largest rifle
that little girl from Pittsburgh is likely shooting range in the Avorld. Because
to acfiuire a neAV escort, unless, of course, they Avere Ncav York ncAvspapermen they
you are able to entice her aAvay from the AA'ere scoffing and jeering at anything so
ball room long enough to get her middle trival as spending the aternoon on the
finger on a trigger. If that happens, firing line. It meant little less than
ask your friend’s congratulations, for nothing to them.
she AvUl be a better sport, a better shot. But just about that moment thert
a better pal and, if you feel so inclined, came into the picture a nice comradely
a better Avife. young AA'oman Avho was as long on looks
It is not my purpose, however, to dis- as she Avas on courage. She heard the
cuss matrimony or any feature of it. I scoffing, and dared any tAVo of the news-
am not advocating shooting as a mar- (Continued on Page Eleven)
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