Identifier: foreststreamhand00star (find matches)
Title: The Forest and stream hand-book for riflemen
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Starr, George C. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Rifle practice. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, J. B. Ford & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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forming an Association for the encoui^agementof rifle shooting was first practically embodied by the volunteers as-sembled at Hythe for instruction in-musketry in July and August,1859. They formed a committee to give effect to their views, whichjoined with the council of the London Rifle Brigade in forming theNational Rifle Association. The first meeting was held at theSpencer House, London, when it was resolved to hold a publicmeeting. The meeting subsequently took place at the ThatchHouse Tavern, London, on Nov. 16, 1859, ^^ which a large numberof the leading men of the country were present. Lord Elcho waschosen«Chairman, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., wasmade President of the Association. It became necessary then to select a site upon which to estab-lish a range. Wimbledon was chosen as possessing the requisites ofspace, safety, and accessibility to the metropolis. O . the followingpage we give a map of this admirable ground, and -ic arrangementof its targets and ranges.
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The first prize meeting, which was a great success, took placeJuly 2, i860. The first gun was fired by the Queen, who thus in-augurated the new Association. From the first annual report wefind that the total number of members was 1,387, of whom 285 werelife members; that the total receipts were ;!^8,452 sterling; that afterall expenses were paid there was a balance of ^^1,114 sterling.From the last report (1875) we find that the total number of mem-bers was 3,115 ; that the receipts were in the neighborhood of ;^20,-000, while the expenditures amounted to ^^16,000. The number ofentries in different matches was 105,462. About sixty-four countyand thirty colonial Associations are connected with the NationalAssociation, and its popularity and importance increase yearly. In this country the National Rifle Association was organized inNew York City, by about thirty gentlemen, June 10, 1870. Gen.A. E. Burnside was the first President; Col. Wm. C. Church, of theArmy and Navy Journal, Vice-Pre

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