Excerpt from Why Should Boys Be Taught to Shoot? It is not a novel, diflicult, nor an expensive thing, to teach our boys to shoot. It is being done with great success in eleven of the great High Schools of New York City. This is largely owing to the use of the sub-target Gun Machine, which enables instruction to be given and practice had in an ordinary room, and saves the cost of ammunition, which other wise would be almost prohibitory. This ma chine consists of an upright standard having at the top a horizontal rod in front of which is placed a target like a visiting card. To this is attached an ordinary Krag military rifle, which, while capable of being freely, moved, is so adjusted that when aim is taken with the rifle at a target across the room, and the trigger is pulled, the rod punches a hole in the minia ture target in the exact relative place where thetarget aimed at would have been hit if the gun had been loaded. Practice with it is rapid, costs nothing, and involves no danger to any one. The instructor who stands alongside of the boy who is shooting is also able to follow the movement of the rod on the miniature tar get to see the manner in which he is aiming, and to correct his defects in holding, which it is impossible to do when a loaded gun is being used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.