A modern range with swinging targets.

A single lever swings all targets face-on to the

shooter for timed and rapid fire.

suggest loading for the calibre that
predominates. It sometimes happens
that some men are carrying weapons
chambered for .38 Special (the long
case) and others .38 S. & W.—the
shorter variety of that calibre. With
this choice to make I would load for
.38 special. It’s the best case to reload
and the majority of police arms are
chambered for it.

Upon the decision as to which
calibre to load for rests the expendi-
ture for bullet moulds and tool dies.

The standard .38 calibre practice or
match bullet today is a flat face
(wadcutter) type of about 146 or 148
grains, and while it looks inefficient, it
is extremely accurate in ranges up to
50 yards, and has the added quality of
punching clean round holes which
preclude arguments and speeds up
scoring.

Bullet moulds come in all sizes from
single cavity to 18, depending on how
much production you require.

The individual shooter with a two-
cavity mould can turn up a two or
three months’ supply of bullets in an
evening. A police department might
need a 10 cavity mould.

Taking it all around the handload-
ing operation has made the difference
between practice and no practice in
many police departments the country
over. If there is no great supply of
cases to start with, an initial purchase
of some live ammunition will supply
the deficiency. With moderate loads
the cases will last many operations.
I have some that have been loaded
and reloaded over 120 times—until I
lost track.

Any centre fire case can be reloaded;
the State Patrol in the State of Wash-
ington have an excellent reloading
and marksmanship program for their
standard arm, the Smith & Wesson
44 special. The Seattle police have re-

TWENTY-SECOND EDITION

loaded .45 calibre for Thompson sub-
machine gun practice, the only varia-
tion being that they case the bullet
with 50% hardening, for the auto-
matic weapon. Rifle cases can be re-
loaded (using rifle powder) and the
bullets are cast especially hard or
bought from dealers. Most of the high
velocity .22 rifles in the hands of gun
cranks use hand-loaded ammunition
developing a muzzle velocity up to
4,000 feet a second. When these ’scope
sighted weapons are laid on a crow at
50 or 100 yards, brother crow just
blows up, leaving a few lazily falling
feathers to mark where he was.
Public Reaction

But to return to the police pro-
gram; if there is a moderately good
shot in the department then by all
means let him run the reloading and
marksmanship training. He will not
only get better himself but his pro-
ficiency will enthuse and _ inspire
others. Eventually in a year or two
your department will be making com-
petition entries and where a police-
man or a police team win the odd
match it gives further good publicity
to the department and helps promote

One of the most
ingenious cuffs is
the letter cuff. It
cannot be opened
until letters,  ar-
ranged on a revoly-
ing drum, are
turned to form a
code word. The

German cuff, known
as the “Hamburg

eight,” springs
open as the detec-
tive whips them
out of his pocket
for use. — (Con-
stabulary Gazette.)

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