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From the June 15, 1922 issue of American Rifleman magazine, an obituary for Maj. Charles W. Hinman as follows: Maj. Charles W. Hinman, prominent among long-range marksmen in this country and England forty years ago, died May 26, 1922, at Jordan Falls, Nova Scotia, while on a fishing rip. At the old Creedmoor range, in 1881, Maj. Hinman made a score of 224 out of a possible 225, the conditions calling for fifteen shots, each at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. This score was the world's record of the time. In 1882 and 1883 he was a member of American teams, made up of the best long-range marksmen in the country, which competed against the best English teams at the famous Wimbledon range, near London and in 1888 he was a member of a team of military marksmen from Massachusetts, which visited England. In no case was his individual standing lower than third among the members of the several teams, in one case he being first and in another second in rank. Maj. Hinman had been a member of the Massachusetts Rifle Association for forty-three years at the the time of his death, and he was for four years its president. His score of 49 out of possible 50 at 200 yards, made with the old Springfield rifle, July 17, 1880, at the Walnut Hill range, was for many years the association record for offhand shooting under military conditions. As a young man Mr. Hinman served in the Massachusetts militia and later in life he was for sevceral years on the Governor's staff as inspector of rifle practice with the rank of major. He served as coach on a number of occasions for Massachusetts and New Hampshire teams in the national matches at Camp Perry. The Standard American target, now in use throughout the country on civilian rifle ranges, was designed by him, and he contuned to control its manufacture. Maj. Hinman was preeminently an outdoors man. He was born on a farm in Concord, Vt., April 11, 1849. As a boy his health was far from robust, and he was encouraged to spend his time in the open air. He took up trapping as a recreation out of school hours, and devoted the first money which the sale of his furs yielded to the purchase of an unabridged dictionary. His home, even then, was called "the armory" by the neighbors. During the last forty years of his life he devoted much time to big-game hunting and salmon fishing, in both of which sports he had remarkable success. He killed in his time more than twenty-five moose and between eighty and ninety deer, besides caribou, bear and other game. He killed both moose and deer during a hunting trip in Nova Scotia last October, but had for several previous years relaxed his efforts in the pursuit of big game. He had continued, nevertheless, to make annual trips to the woods in the hunting season, and to the streams of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the seasons for salmon and trout, his fishing and hunting trips of a single yaar usually aggregating three months or more. Game animals which came in front of Maj. Hinman's rifle were pretty sure to recieve severe punishment. He had tried all manner of calibres and loads, and was convinced that no bullet of less than .30 claibre, or weighing less than 180 grains, or with muzzle velocity of less than 2,8000 feet a second was suitable for hunting moose or bear. His standard of sportsmanship was of the highest, and his death will be widely mourned. While making his usual spring fishing trip on the Liverpool and Jordan Rivers in Nove Acotia, Maj. Hinman was attacked by his final illness. Chronic indigestion had affected the action of his heart. He received every care at the hands of his companion, Mr. Ira L. Fish. of Boston, and the two guides, one of whom had accompanied the Major on similar trips annually for fifteen years. He reached a settlement on the railroad where he was attended by a physician, but he was unable to continue the journey home. His death came about ten days after the first attack of the final illness. Maj. Hinman was a civil engineer and chemist. He graduated at the head of his class from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1870 and taught chemistry there for a year. The office of State Gas Inspector was then created, and he received the first appointment, continuing in the office more than twenty years. He then engaged in the manufacture of gas meters, and was consulting engineer for the American Meter Company at the time of his death. He invented a number of gas appliances, including a station meter, for measuring total product of gass plants at the works. This latter machine in now in use throughout the country. The funeral of Maj. Hinman took place June 1 at his home in Winchester, Mass. He leaves a widow and four children.
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