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[Music] [Music] [Music] this is the early morning flight to be sure the beats are clear and safe for the day's firing and it shows an overall picture of the fine rifle ranges at Camp Terry [Music] Williams gunsight company near Davison Michigan these matches are sponsored annually by the National Rifle Association and there are many types of competition held here during the three weeks the small bore or the 22 caliber matches the pistol and revolver matches and the big rifle match is commonly called the big bore matches there's the junior the ladies the police matches the individual matches and matches for the Armed Forces the ones that we're particularly interested in will be the thousand-yard Wimbledon Cup and the Presidents Trophy and we have weather is here today Larry reco of Saginaw Michigan one of the winners of the Wimbledon Cup match Larry how are you shooting I'm shooting pretty sharp is somerdale what does sharp is last year you're down here just to check out some of your equipment and check over your sights and some of your ammunition for this year's match is that right that's right did a good sight reading on them check out some ammunition well Larry let's just talk about the rifle you're using that's a thousand-yard rifle what's the caliber and the weight this tell real this rifle is 6.5 and it is built on a 319 piece the weight of this rifle was 55 justine pwned that's about twice as heavy as we'd like to carry around the deer woods many of the shooters can load their own ammunition that are in the target shooting a match shooting field don't they that's right bill probably the one of the big reasons is that you can tailor the ammunition for your particular rifle and get a little more accuracy than you can out of the general factory commercial ammunition that is the biggest reason you'd load then I imagine another big reason would be the economy angle factory ammunition or commercial runs about 25 to 35 cents a shot you can handle it for about six to seven cents isn't that right yes well you can do a lot more shooting and for the same amount of money a lot more practice in that way let's go in the shop and see you do a little of this and loading of ammunition has been popular for many years it is just this simple you full-length resize this case and at the same time remove the old primer then we insert a fresh one then we take the shell from the case from the press and we carefully weigh our powder we weigh the powder in this scale within 1/10 of a grain that means 1/10 of 7 fowls and they're being 7000 grains in a phone that's getting down pretty fine the fourth and final step in loading is to carefully seat the bullet this is a match king bullet in a boat tail and if kiff properly seated the ammunition can't help but be perfect for mass shooting and hand loading is just that simple and now Larry let's compare this cartridge that you're shooting in the thousand-yard national match with some of our real popular deer hunting cartridges this is your six five special Magnum this is our very popular 3006 hunting cartridge this is the very popular 308 the army calls it the t 14 is their military cartridge in the very popular 300 savage and the popular old 3030 and now Larry let's step over to the counter and look at some of the rifles that will be used in big-game hunting and down at Camp Perry just as a comparison we've noticed the rifles were predominantly bold action up don't know this is the 30 caliber m1 garand rifle and his typical of the autoloading rifles will see it from national matches the armed service use them a great deal of error mantas these are typical of the 22 or the small bore match rifle Remington 40 X 22 caliber this is the Winchester 52 it has the adjustable micrometer sights then we'd get into the hunting rifles notice how small slim by comparison trim and light their sights are a little neater if their scopes are a little less from all corners of the country shooters gather to go to Camp Perry to our national matches let's go to camp Perry and see what's going on we arrived at Camp Perry on August the 20th nearly three thousand soldiers sailors Marines and airmen have completed the mammoth task of transforming this Ohio National Guard post on the shore of Lake Erie into a beehive of activity necessary to support the 1965 national rifle and pistol matches that begin here on the 30th of July this year the cooks the bakers the truck drivers engineers military policemen and other men of my raid specialties have been assigned to fill jobs in statistics finance medical and the multitude of occupations required to keep the matches running smoothly the National Rifle Association of America is an organization of more than 700,000 members and more than 12,000 clubs we send in the forethought of millions of those people in America who like to shoot who like to shoot holes and paper targets and who like to hunt we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is a salient part of the American tradition among the many groups were working in these and related activities one quickly comes to mind the remarkable Williams family of Michigan they hold a school each year where they teach 800 youngsters marksmanship conservation and safety the elements of good citizenship anywhere we have with us today Alva Baird of Lapeer Michigan she had just completed the Leach match it calls for a thousand yards and iron sights and I believe she is coming off of the range with a perfect score of 100 is that right Alva how does it feel you shot a perfect score in that thousand yard and it's fob 300 Magnum bull gun right how many of these did you have in that congratulations thank you this is the Wimbledon trophy and it has been an annual competition since 1876 it's a very interesting match here at Camp Perry it's awarded for the thousand-yard 20 shot from the prone position any sight will see the shoot off in the Wimbledon Cup the SAP noon we have with a Jack Bauer sock and I believe that let's take a look at the inside of the trophy can we hold those pegs up so that we can see them I don't know exactly what the peg meant in this trophy but a peg I think is a medium or a measure of liquid and if it's that amount that you had to drink after winning the Cup I'd look into it because it looks like quite a lot I want to thank you jack Bowersox for your help in displaying and showing this very fine trophy and now let's go back to the range and see the shoot off for the Wimbledon Cup at Camp Perry the show must go on rain or shine and it is raining here at Camp Perry this afternoon we are down on one of the practice ranges watching a lady shooter Barbara Heil Barbara is testing out some of the work that was done on her equipment this morning wanted to check it out a little further Barbara shoots on the All Army team she is the first lady shooter to win this distinction she has won the lady service rifle championship for years and holds the woman's record here at Camp Perry for the woman's overall aggragate she was the first woman shooter to qualify for the finals at the whim in the Wimbledon Cup we are proud of Barbara Heil she is one of our neighbors her home is Lapeer [Applause] and now let's just talk with Barbara and see how she is shooting Barbara how are you doing you certainly have done a lot of sharp shooting in the last few years we're very proud of you thank you wish you every luck in the match this year nice talking with you Barbara good luck we're back at the rifle butts during the noon luncheon break the old adage here is true an army travels on its stomach this the military personnel that we see is part of the 1st battalion 61st infantry provisional they're from Fort Carson Colorado this is an all-day job these men Manning the targets and handling the firing line on the range start their work at 7 o'clock in the morning they have one hour break at noon and they work until about 5:00 in the afternoon the army target we use for 300 yards mass shooting it has a 10 inch bullseye or five ring with a three inch center V ring ties are usually settled by the number of shots that are inside of the V ring ok fellas you can take it away now we see the manner in which they put the target up into place for the competitors to shoot at you notice they slip it up into those notches and lock it into place then it has the tie strings which have to be tied down now let's watch these fellows manipulate the target this is the red flag or the Baker as it is called in the armed service and is usually hoisted whenever firing is done at the range these matches are all run in a very orderly system you notice the assembly line in the background that's where the shooters are in waiting as you move up you see the ready line the ready line is going up with a firing line now and on the firing line as one group leaves arranged another come to take their place there are a hundred and four separate matches fired here at Camp Perry this is match 82 the Coast Guard Trophy match [Applause] [Applause] sure sounds like a lot of popcorn popping doesn't it this is the same relay it's firing a second clip of ten shots isn't it interesting to see some of the expressions on their faces we are watching some of the 2200 shooters competing in the Wimbledon Cup match this match has a very interesting history in 1875 a team of American Rifleman went to Europe the stage a return match with the Irish team they had defeated at Crete or New York during the previous year the match was held on the dahle mountain range near Dublin on June 29th and resulted in a very decisive victory for the Americans the final score being 968 the 929 the match was between teams of six men each with each shooter firing 15 shots of each range of 800 900 and a thousand yards this was the last time the American shooters competed in an important event in which cast iron targets with square bull's-eyes were used after that match the Americans made a goodwill tour of the British Isles where they attended the matches put on by the furnish at Wimbledon they accepted in the names of the shooters of America a silver Challenge Cup presented by Princess Louise on behalf of the rifleman of Great Britain this trophy was shot for at Wimbledon by members of the American team the distance 1000 yards 30 shots no signing in shots the weapon any rifle within the rules in the position any without artificial wrist an American shooter won that match when the trophy reached America it was decided to hold it for annual competition in long range match open to all right any sight the shoot offices follow all competitors fire two shots and ten shots four records the competitors then leave the firing line the ten high from each division immediately re squatted for a shot by shot elimination the competitors are permitted three minutes or two sighting shots from the new position upon the command from the Range Officer the competitors fire one shot record within two minute time limit the competitors with shots of the lowest value leave the firing line the shot by shot procedure will be followed until the winner of each division has been determined awards are the winner of the Wimbledon Cup a trophy miniature from the NRA in silver the high service rifles bar trophy a trophy plaque the shooter winning receives a gold plated metal the remaining competitors are divided off into divisions over on station 80 we see capital owns winner of the US Army team he was the 1964 gold medal a winner in the Olympics for the United States [Music] mr. Harlan be Carter the NRA present will present the award the man that won with a score of 150 with 17 V's the winner of the high service rifle and the president's match is present private first class Norris F Belling United States Army would you come to that point sir [Applause] [Music] feeling runs high here among the shooters concerning anti-gun legislation most of these shooters feel that it's people that kill people not necessarily the gun marvin driver does a good job of summing it up absolutely not we don't need any more legislation against firearm after having been an officer in the state of michigan for 38 years i know of no instance where crimes legislation such as we have in michigan restricting the ownership of handguns has ever accomplished its purpose i know of no instance where that law has ever prevented a crime prevented a criminal from getting a gun or solved a crime after it's been committed well only the law-abiding citizens won't pay attention that it somehow won't alertly true honor the only people it's going to hurt or affect in any way will be the law-abiding citizens and when they do you enforcement have no right to be curtailed this way it'll never stop uppermost and getting those he can go out and make a gun in 30 minutes if he wants to use it [Music]