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Walter G. Hudson to Dear Sir, October 8, 1898, page 1

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Walter G. Hudson to Dear Sir, October 8, 1898, page 1

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Walter G. Hudson to Dear Sir,October 8, 1898, page 2

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  • DR. WALTER G. HUDSON, 73 West 131st Street. OFFICE* HOURS I 8 TO 9 A. M. 12 M. TO 1 P. M. 5 TO 8 P. M. New York, OCT 8- 1898 Dear Sir: - Yours of the 4th received, and I am sorry you will not be able to visit N. Y. this fall. I gun very much pleased to hear something from you concerning the accuracy of the 30-40 cartridge; and the performances you mention are certainly, to my mind, sufficient to warrant the Sharpshooter's organizat- ion in adopting it. I have heard so many reports as to its extreme inaccuracy, that I began to doubt the wisdom of adopt- ing it after all. But I have no longer any doubt as to which is the proper cartridge for us to use, as from your tests the accuracy is sufficient (and will be further improved when our men get experimenting on it), and its procurability in time of war, its flat trajectory, and the prestige we would have by using the standard ammunition, are of course immense advantages in its favor. I am not much impressed with what Brother Hayes says. He is an old and experienced rifleman, I think, at all ranges, but I am inclined to think he likes to spin a yarn once in a while; besides, he is too old to be of any use in our ranks. He doesnt use a Springfield at 200 yds. in a prize shoot, you can bet; he uses a 33-40-170 Schalck-Ballard, weighing about I3 lbs. There is no use in our trying to run down those queer combinations, the 200 yard schuetzen rifles; the only thing that counts in the 200 yard prize matches is scores, and I doubt if any apparatus better than the sehuetzen rifle could be designed for the purpose of putting up high scores offhand at this distance; the trouble is not with the guns, but with the kind of shooting; it is the style of shooting that developed the schuetsen rifle, and that style of shooting is, to my mind, of little practical use. If, now, we can get the energies of the American riflemen who patronize the shuetzen park (chiefly because they have not therefore been admitted to any other kind of rifle range) directed into the proper channels, it will not be Iong before the high power gun will manifest its superiority — especially if some of the shooting is practiced at unknown distances. This week I am having a 600 yard firing point built
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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