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Carroll Steinbeck letters to his parents, May-June 1943

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 2

of paper like, this long. It sort of looked like a book. It seemed so easy to write him after not writing him for quite awhile. I had a lot to say. He really gave me a fine picture of what he's doing to.
In answer to your question of how sighting your rifle and knowing where it hits. Here's how. The targets stick up over a big bank. Behind this bank some fellows pull the target up on a frame work with a pulley. You fire at it and they can hear the bullet strike the paper. They lower it and put a disk in the hole something like those that go in the nail hole of a casing. They then pull it up again and they have long poles with different colored disks on the end which they point to the hole. The different colors stand for a certain number of points. They have to do this for you are sometimes so far away that you can't see the rings. When the scorer sees the

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of paper like, this long. It sort of looked like a book. It seemed so easy to write him after not writing him for quite awhile. I had a lot to say. He really gave me a fine picture of what he's doing to. In answer to your question of how sighting your rifle and knowing where it hits. Here's how. The targets stick up over a big bank. Behind this bank some fellows pull the target up on a frame work with a pulley. You fire at it and they can hear the bullet strike the paper. They lower it and put a disk in the hole something like those that go in the nail hole of a casing. They then pull it up again and they have long poles with different colored disks on the end which they point to the hole. The different colors stand for a certain number of points. They have to do this for you are sometimes so far away that you can't see the rings. When the scorer sees the