PLATE 16. GASTINNE-RENETTE GALLERY—FIRING POINTS
The prizes are given on a gradually increasing scale of difficulty, so that nobody need be discouraged.
The bronze medal for shooting at plaster figures at sixteen metres is easy enough for the most moderate pistol shot to win, he is thus encouraged to try for the silver medal at these figures, which is a little more difficult, and so on.
No medal in any of the series can be won more than once.
If a man wins the gold medal at that series at the first attempt he can still go in for the silver and bronze medals of that series, but, when he has won all three medals of a series, he can never compete in that series again, but of course can shoot for practice at them.
Some series call for extreme accuracy and some for endurance, as that for breaking a hundred small plates in succession—rapid-firing—under duelling conditions.
In Chapter XXXIII, I described the target used at Gastinne-Renette’s Gallery for the three series for the Grand Medaille d’Or.
There are no second prizes in these series.
One gold medal is for twelve shots deliberate shooting with the .44 calibre duelling pistol.