RIFLES FOR BIG GAME 



the American sportsman be sighted for use in this 

 country ? Certainly you do not now need to have any 

 very elaborate rear sight provisions for elevation. 

 The buffaloes and antelopes of the plains are gone. 

 Such game as you will find in ordinary hunting con- 

 ditions will rarely ever be shot at over two hundred 

 yards. 



For the average American hunting rifle, therefore, 

 two small leaf rear sights will be enough. One will 

 do for close range, the- other for mid-range work. 

 Say that you set your first leaf so that it will shoot 

 on the dot at seventy-five yards. You will find that 

 this means, with the average high-power rifle, that 

 there is scarcely any appreciable variation at any 

 range inside of seventy-five yards. 



Suppose, for instance, that a bear is charging and 

 that you are shooting at him at a distance of twenty 

 or thirty yards. Certainly you do not want to shoot 

 over his head, and certainly you do not want to be 

 stopping to change your sights at that time. Now 

 if you know you are using the lower leaf, you can 

 be sure that the seventy-five-yard sight will cover 

 correctly all these close inside shots. 



Again, if you have not estimated your distance 

 correctly, your seventy-five-yard shot will still keep 

 you within the killing circle up to double that dis- 

 tance. If an animal begins to look too far away 



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