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good material to work with in 1954
among them potential champions,”
confided quiet-spoken Bouchard.

3y the way, the fifth-ranking marks-
man on the force is Sgt. Robert Mair.
He’s the alternative who fills in if one
of the other can’t handle a team
shooting assignment.

To get back to the foursome. Over
the six years they have teamed to-
gether on home soil and away in
tournaments they have raked in 162
awards, including Inspector Webb's
championship trophies.

Their biggest trophy year was in
1949. Taking part in the North Pacific
Regional tournament in Seattle, they
returned weighed down with 29
medals and prizes and 22 more in the
same tourney in 1950. In 1951 they
came home from Seattle with 23
medals and a trophy, won 18 awards
and Webb his Island title in 1953 in
the South Vancouver Island Rangers,
Inc., first Vancouver Island pistol
meet. It will be an annual affair.

Inspector Webb’s shooting career
hit a snag in later war years when he
suffered a shoulder injury in a city
hotel fire.

However, being one of those de-
termined types who refuse to lie down
and quit, he gradually got back into
shooting trim. He’d been a “master”
marksman at that time and has made
progress on the comeback trail now
to the point that he is in the expert
class bordering on the master class.

He was named to attend the Ottawa
Bisley match a few years back, but
unfortunately that fell through as
there was no competition that year.

However, local experts at the game

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predict that Charlie will again be
chosen for the chance to compete for
Dominion honors—maybe this year.

Detective Briggs is in the expert
class, Sgt. Mason and Const. Bouchard
sharpshooters.

Constable Bouchard dug down into
the records and came up with some
history on Victoria City Police com-
petitive pistol shooting.

He said that Victoria’s present
mayor, Claude L. Harrison, was one
of the prime instigators to start city
policemen into shooting competition.
The mayor was city prosecutor for 40
years before “shooting” for the chief
magistrate’s position.

Police pistoleers shot at H.M. Dock-
yard’s (Black Rock) in conjunction
with the annual police sports when
they first went into action.

The marksmen started shooting at
Heals Range (about 10 miles from
Victoria) in 1935 and the Victoria
City Revolver Club was finally formed
as a separate unit of the force a few
years later.

During the year of the opening of
the Second World War the club
established a wonderful range on
city-owned grounds at the back of
Thetis Lake (six miles from the city)
and it has been the scene of annual
two-day tournaments that has drawn
the finest top-grade marksmen of the
Pacific Northwest ever since.

The range, circled by evergreens,
has a park-like setting that is very
popular with American shooters. It
was built by volunteer labor provided
by pistol club members and has 25
firing points at 25 and 50 yards. Club
has a machine that manufactures its

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