This can be beaten with an automatic pistol. With an automatic pistol it is a matter of finding the right speed to swing across the figures.
A good open air pistol range can be made behind a rifle butt.
Behind the big butt for a thousand yards’ rifle shooting makes a very big butt for twenty-five yards’ automatic pistol shooting and allows for swinging and moving targets on an ample scale.
In an open air range great care must be taken to be very strict as to rules of safety.
There becomes a tendency to walk down to the butt to examine a target without first giving warning; to walk about with some cartridges still in the pistol, etc.
Things which would not be done in an indoor range seem to come natural to some men when in an out-of-doors range.
Targets that can smash are the best. Plaster heads are much better to shoot at in rapid firing than to try and hit the six heads of wooden targets.
In the former case you see the débris of the smash as you pull the trigger and do not pause in your swing to the next target.
If there is no smash to the shot but only a bullet hole, one is apt to hesitate after each shot to look for the bullet hole.
It looks so much better and gives such a satisfactory feeling to instantly see the result of your shot.