Downrange area at the rifle range where targets were pulled, marked and pasted. The butts were below ground level to prevent accidental ricochets from entering them. A field telephone connected the bu [..]

Detail of Marines assigned to pull and mark targets in the butts. These Marines also signaled the firing line on shooters' performance for each round fired. When units went to the rifle range, th [..]

Cigarettes. The stem of a cigar picked up on the street.

Cigarettes

Butts are small stone structures without roofs used when shooting grouse. The shooters would stand in the butts whilst beaters would drive the grouse into the sky. Grouse shooting became most popular [..]

The name given to that part of the range which contains the target frames and the bullet catcher which traps and safely contains the fired projectiles.

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