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Townsend Whelen to members of National Rifle Association, February 9, 1920, page 2

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  • OTHER CONDITIONS. - Any .22 caliber rim fire rifle not weighing over 12 pounds, any sights, any trigger pull. These conditions are tentative. The National Rifle Association will make official announcement of all conditions in ample time. A generous prize list will be provided. Targets may be obtained from either the Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Co., foolworth Bldg., New York City, or the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Connecticut. Now is the time to get ready. You must get your rifle range ready. Any vacant lot, fairly level, 200 yards long and about 50 yards wide will do. The more accessible its location the better. Your town should provide a lot just as they provide tennis courts, etc. The equipment of the range will cost you practically nothing except the willing hands of a few members for a few afternoons. Detailed plans for equipping ranges will be published in ARMS AND THE MAN. Get your rifles ready. Many of you already have fine small-bore rifles. The Savage Arms Company has just placed on the market a very satisfactory bolt action, .22 caliber small-bore rifle. The new Winchester bolt action, .22 caliber small-bore rifle will be ready for delivery about the middle of March. Get in your orders for these and for the ammunition you need with your local dealer. Captain E. C. Grossman, a member of the N.R.A. Small-Bore Committee, is hard at work on a SMALL-BORE HANDBOOK which will be issued by the National Rifle Association. This book will give every bit of dope - rifles, equipment, ranges, range construction, ballistics, how to shoot, how to organize and finance a club, competitions, rules, etc. The Handbook will probably be out by the first of May. There are certain things I want you to do for the promotion of rifle practice and therefore for your COUNTRY. I want: Each of you to get every member of your Club interested in this movement and actively participating. . Each of you to get new members for your rifle club. Each of you to try to form a new rifle club in your neighboring town, and then get up local matches with them. Each of you to send me the names and addresses of all men you think would be interested In small-bore shooting. I want a big mailing list. Each of you, after you have read this letter, to post it in some place where a LOT of riflemen will see it. Each of you, after you have read ARMS AND THE MAN, to pass it on so all the members of your club can see it. We have been doing a lot of work on the paper lately, and I think that we have made it into a pretty good American Rifleman's Magazine. Have you noticed the paper lately? Particularly have you noticed the question and answer column which I have been running? There was evidently great need for this service. An enormous number of questions are answered in each issue now. Get us new subscribers for ARMS AND THE MAN. Every rifleman should subscribe. Come in with us and do your best to help make your COUNTRY again a NATION OF RIFLEMEN. Fraternally yours, TOWNSEND WHELEN Lt.Colonel, General Staff, Chairman,Small-Bore Committee,N.R.A. Washington, D.C. February 9, 1920. Fred H. Phillips, Jr., Executive Officer and Recorder, National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice.
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