4. Shoot as many Holes as you can in a Board, one foot square, which has been thrown in the air, before it reaches the ground.
5. Break a Brick with one bullet, then reload, and hit one of the pieces.
6. Oranges, when hit hard with a bullet from a .44 calibre rifle, disappear in a shower of juice; or, if struck only lightly with the first bullet, can be hit again with a second before falling.
7. In Time Shooting with a repeating rifle, balls can be hit as fast as they can be thrown up, one at a time, by one person.
Note.—The above repeating rifle shots, and many of the others, were invented by Dr. Carver and successfully made in his various exhibitions in this country and at the Crystal Palace, near London.
FEATS
WHICH HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE RIFLE ON MOVING OBJECTS.
The records given below have not been made in matches but in exhibitions, but are well authenticated, and will serve as Standards of Excellence.
Dr. William F. Carver, the originator of ball shooting with a rifle, to whom great credit is due on that account, has performed many remarkable feats in his exhibitions, and one of both skill and endurance which will stand for them all.
At Brooklyn Driving Park, on Saturday July 13, 1878, he attempted to break 5500 glass balls in 8 hours, with the following result, copied from the account in Forest and Stream, Rod and Gun: