The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially [Illustration showing] the kind of boxes or stalls from which the marksmen had to the shooting is done under cover of a large brick building, which is generally known as "Le Tir"...On one side are thirty-six little "pens" or boxes for the shooters, each box opposite a window looking on a box or "pen" is fitted with a rack for the rifles, and range is 225 metres or 246 yards'
The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially [Illustration showing] the kind of boxes or stalls from which the marksmen had to the shooting is done under cover of a large brick building, which is generally known as "Le Tir"...On one side are thirty-six little "pens" or boxes for the shooters, each box opposite a window looking on a box or "pen" is fitted with a rack for the rifles, and range is 225 metres or 246 yards'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
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