GUNS Magazine March 1958

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George Krist uses a mirror to sight bullet on target. Trick
lies in making the muscles move to suit the mirror image.
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Firing from spectacular "headstand,"
. Walter Walsh, ex US pistol champion,
makes upsidedown shot the hard way.
Author's kit includes
rom top down) an
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&W K-22, a Colt Of-
ficers Model .38, and
a Colt Single Action.
vested another small bit of savings in a Mo-Skeet-0 trap,
manufactured by the Routledge Manufacturing Company
of Monroe, Michigan.
That Mo-Skeet-0 game turned out to be a pretty tough
proposition. The targets were not large, they were goingaway
targets instead of the near-vertical toss-ups on which
I had become proficient, and they were hard to hit.
Research was needed, and I turned to a .22 rifle to find
some of the answers. I learned a good deal about sight
settings, for one thing. Using .22 shorts, as I was doing
for reasons of economy and range limitations, targets
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flying . - within 10 or 15 feet were easy but those thrown out
and away were missed often. I learned that, at targets
1 "
out around 25 feet-rising targets-I needed about an
inch of elevation. At around 40 feet, when the targets
were falling, sights needed to be lowered to hit two inches
low. This data had to be translated from rifle to revolver,
and this meant going back to practice at paper targets. I
did this somewhat reluctantly, but it helped. When I tried
my skill again on the Mo-Skeet-0 flyers, I could hit them
more often.
This combination of paper target practice and practice
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on aerial targets gradually paid off to the point where I
could score satisfactorily on (Continued on page 40)
Man-and-wife shooting team, the Krisk, put on crowdpleasing
program, using rifles, shotguns, and pistols.
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