the next few points come a little slower.
You will have to pay more attention to
details. Some slip on special grips, or adapt-
ors. Last year at the Provincial champion-
ship matches at Victoria I noticed one of
our team with what appeared to be the butt
of a saw log for a grip—but he shot 280
out of 300 over the National Match course
to win the individual B. C. championship.
Another had his Smith & Wesson .38/44
so plastered up with plastic wood and tape
that I couldn’t get my hand around it. But
he took second place at Seattle in the slow

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fire championship with a 180 out of 200.
Personally I stick to standard grips with-
out an adaptor, and just a short strip of
adhesive tape around the butt. If I depart
from this, scores go down. I use shooting
glasses and keep both eyes open. If I dis-
card the glasses and close one eye, scores
take a flop.

I try to get the gun straight in line with
my forearm and use a high grip with the
weight of the gun pressing down on the
second knuckle of the middle finger. The
trigger finger is free of the frame and
touches the trigger only at the first joint.
Get that habit of cocking the gun without
shifting the sights out of line or the muzzle
off the black on the target. It’s not hard to
do after a little practice.

And now here’s the third member of our
advisory council—Const. Jack Henry, high
individual in the B. C. Police league last
fall, and last year’s individual champion at
the Victoria Police match.

Const. Henry gives us the following:

“Practice, they say, makes perfect, and
this maxim certainly applies in pistol shoot-
ing. Endless repetition gets results, but
don’t repeat your errors. If you have access
to plenty of cheap ammunition, you’re in
luck, but endless dry shooting is cheap and
also brings results. Practice your dry shoot:

Const. J. Henry

ing on a bullseye reduced proportionately
the size of the standard 25-yard bullseye.
Five or ten minutes a day will soon make
a difference to your scores. As for any par-
ticular point—well I would say that trigger
squeeze is about the most important thing.
The gun should be comfortable in the hand,
and any trouble you may be put to to get
a gun that fits your hand will be amply re-
warded later on. Don’t hold too long in
deliberate fire. It shouldn’t take more than
five seconds to raise and aim the gun and
get the shot off.”

Well, there you have it—three experts
and their credo is ‘methodical, intelligent
practice.” There are trick grips and ex-
pensive guns—but naturally they are not
laying down any pet theory, playing up
any special gun model, or pinning their
faith to some patent grip. They assume
that you have a gun that fits your hand,
standard ammunition, normal vision and
ordinary physique. And practice is the

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