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AUTOMATIC PISTOL SHOOTING


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[Illustration: AUTOMATIC PISTOLS]




  AUTOMATIC PISTOL SHOOTING

  TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION ON HANDLING
  THE DUELLING PISTOL AND REVOLVER


  BY WALTER WINANS

  CHEVALIER OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST. STANISLAUS
  COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ORDER OF ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
  COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF THE CROWN OF RUMANIA
  OFFICER OF THE STAR OF RUMANIA
  OLYMPIC CHAMPION FOR DOUBLE-RIFLE SHOOTING IN 1908
  GOLD MEDALLIST FIFTH OLYMPIAD, STOCKHOLM, 1912
  REVOLVER CHAMPION, FIVE YEARS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF
  GREAT BRITAIN
  SEVEN YEARS OF THE SOUTH LONDON RIFLE CLUB AND TEN YEARS OF THE
  NORTH LONDON RIFLE CLUB
  ONE YEAR DUELLING PISTOL CHAMPION AT GASTINNE-RENETTE'S, PARIS
  VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
  MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RIFLEMEN, LIFE
  MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, LIFE
  MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES REVOLVER ASSOCIATION AND
  OF LE PISTOLET CLUB OF PARIS
  PRESIDENT OF ASHFORD RIFLE CLUB, ASHFORD MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB AND
  THE SURRENDEN MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB


  G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  NEW YORK AND LONDON
  The Knickerbocker Press
  1915




  COPYRIGHT, 1915
  BY WALTER WINANS

  The Knickerbocker Press, New York




PREFACE


Though my last edition of _Hints on Revolver Shooting_ was published only
four years ago, I find it now necessary, owing to the advance of the
automatic pistol, to revise it thoroughly and to add new chapters.

Till quite recently, the automatic pistol had many defects, both as to
balance and as to safety, chiefly in the latter respect, so that only a
very careful expert could handle one without danger to the public and to
himself.

This has now been altered, and with safety bolts and external hammers
several automatic pistols are quite safe for the use of experts.

They are still very dangerous in the hands of ignorant persons; a revolver
is dangerous enough in such cases but the automatic is much more so.

I shall try to explain how any one possessing mechanical knowledge can, by
observing certain precautions, safely carry and shoot an automatic pistol.
Of course, some men who, for years, have shot small game, and who are good
shots, are still very careless in handling a gun. Such men should never
touch an automatic pistol.

I have made the above remarks as I do not want to be responsible for any
accidents with automatics; and I advise any one not sure of himself to
confine himself to revolvers and single-shot pistols.

The automatic pistol is gradually replacing the revolver except as a
gallery pistol.

Up to the present no automatic pistol can shoot gallery, or light-charge,
ammunition, and the full charge, because of the noise, is very unpleasant
in a shooting-gallery.

It is a great pity that the.44 Smith & Wesson break-down model of
revolver (shooting gallery ammunition) is no longer made, as it is still
the best revolver for gallery shooting.

M. Gastinne Renette, of 39 Avenue d'Antin, Paris, for his gallery, uses
them still, together with his duelling pistols of the same calibre and
powder charge.

I mention this as he is the only dealer who can now supply the old Smith &
Wesson revolvers.

  WALTER WINANS.

  17 Rue de Tervueren,
    BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                     PAGE

      I.--THE AUTOMATIC PISTOL                   1

     II.--SELECTING A PISTOL                     5

    III.--CLEANING AND CARE OF PISTOLS          10

     IV.--SIGHTS                                14

      V.--LEARNING TO SHOOT                     21

     VI.--RAPID FIRING                          40

    VII.--TRAVERSING TARGET                     43

   VIII.--GALLERY SHOOTING                      48

     IX.--TWENTY-YARDS STATIONARY TARGET        52

      X.--DISAPPEARING TARGET                   61

     XI.--STATIONARY