sighting-in range

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a free range equipped with rests and targets supplied by a forestry department and used by hunters to test their rifles before going into the bush.

Quotations

1962

The opening of a sighting-in range at Maiden Creek some 12 miles north of Cache Creek has been welcomed with enthusiasm by sportsmen.

1963

For this reason they built a sighting-in range on the Cariboo Highway, sixteen miles north of Cache Creek.