3-017-259 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Belgian National Rifle Association at Brussels: the firing-point, 1865. Annual meeting '...to which English volunteers were also specially invited...[Illustration showing] the kind of boxes or stalls from which the marksmen had to fire...all 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 target...Every box or "pen" is fitted with a rack for the rifles, and shelves...The range is 225 metres or 246 yards'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.