The way to advance any art, however humble, is for each to help the other with his experience.
Nothing is so inimical to success as convention.
All progress is made on the lines of pruning off all not absolutely essential, in other words by simplification.
APPENDIX A
I think it advisable to give the following World’s Records made by myself with revolvers and black powder as they are now unbeatable, the weapons and cartridges being obsolete.
They stand in the same category as the “high wheel” trotting records.
If there were similar records, diagrams, and details of scores made with sling, long bow, crossbow, Persian bow, American Indian bow, blow pipe, javelin, matchlock, wheellock, etc., available, of what inestimable value they would be to the historian and archeologist.