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mm Landroek Bags the "Metropolitan" Shooting N. R. A.'s. Places first in both championship and preliminary. Sets two records. Classic won for fourth time with N R. A. 's and re-entry for fifth time straight. PAUL LANDROCK Metropolitan Rifle Club HOOTING history was written on the targets during the 1927 S indoor matches of the Metropolitan Rifle League, staged in the 47th Regiment Armory, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 29 to Feb. 19, inclusive. And once again, shooters of the famous U. S. .22 N. R. A. long-rifle cartridges carried off the important honors. in the preliminary, also went to .22 N. R. A. shooters. Charles St. John, Roosevelt Rifle Club, stood second high in the cham pionship, Score: 495 x500. J. H. Hilborn, Roosevelt Rifle Club, and Charles F. Johnson, Frankfotd Arsenal Club, followed Landrock in that order in the preliminary. Both scores: 996x1,000. Paul Landroek, member of the 1924 Inter national Rifle Team,/in particular covered himself with glory. Not content with win ning the preliminary matches by scoring l,000x 1,000 with sixty-five x's, and inciden tally turning in what is said to be the small est possible ever shot,at 100 yards in shoul- Eighty-two possibles were registered dur ing the matches-r-twenty-one in the cham pionship and sixty-one in the preliminary. Sixty-seven, or 84 per cent, of these possibles' were scored with: .22 N. R. A.'s--fourteen in the championship and fifty-three in the re entry matches. der-to-shouider competition, he went out and On the night of the championship there bagged the championship as well. was a special Pope match at 100 yards on a In the championship (fifty shots at 100 yards on standard N. R. A. target with four- one-half inch scoring center. The first three places, in this match were won by the follow inch bull's-eye, two-inch 10-ring) Landroek ing shooters with U. S. .22 N. R. A.'s: 1st, punctured the "bull" to the tune of 498x500, Charles F. Johnson--48x 50; 2nd, De-F. T. making a straight run of twenty-three 10's, Record possible (actual size) shot Layton--47 x 50 ; 3rd, Joseph Martin -- then one 8, and ending up with a string of twenty-six 10's. EEs championship target, by Landroek, Croup {measures .94". All ten shots in z-ring. 24x25. This makes the fourth year out of six that like his .94" possible, is known to be an American record. Quite the Metropolitan Championship has gone to a rifleman using .22 likely both are world's records. N. R. A.'s. And it is the fifth year hand-running that the pre Landrock's equipment was a Pope-Ballard rifle, Winchester- liminary matches have been won with these ultra-accurate .22% Fecker scope and .22 N. R. A.'s. Four championships out of six! Five straight in the prelimi Second place in the championship, as well as second and third naries! "Muff sed" on the accuracy question. LEFTs Composite of targets shot by Landroek in win ning Metropolitan championship. Score of 498* 500 is an American record and no doubt a world's record. RIGHT: Composite of targets shot by Landroek in winning Metropolitan preliminary. Score of 1000* 1000 includes sixty-five x's. United States Cartridge Co. Ill Broadway New York, N. Y. 8P Reprint from The American Rifleman, April, 1927