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sight as now placed upon many rifles can be much 

 improved by the following plan; and taken for all 

 distances is perhaps the best elevating-sight there is: 

 Ream out the peep-hole to the size of a large pin-head 

 and rust it with iodine. Find the lowest point at 

 which you wish to use it; say a hundred and fifty 

 yards if your open sights be coarse, two hundred 

 if very fine. Put a drop of solder on the track there 

 so that it will stop at that exact point when suddenly 

 pushed down. Next find the two-hundred- or two- 

 hundred-and-fifty-yard point, or fifty yards above sol- 

 der, and cut a deep mark there that, if necessary, can 

 be found with the thumb-nail while you are watch- 

 ing game. Put similar marks at the three-hundred- 

 yard and three-hundred-and-fifty-yard point, etc. 

 Then carry the slide on the lowest mark above the 

 solder. To push it from there to the solder is no 

 trouble whatever. You will rarely need to raise it 

 above where it is. If you do, it can be quite easily 

 done. It is best not to shift the sights for a slight 

 variance above or below the game; but when you see 

 a ball strike above or below, hold a little lower or 

 higher the next time. This will be better than at- 

 tempting to use twenty-five-yard intervals. The 

 quickness of finding this sight with the eye can be 

 increased by cutting away the upper part of the plate 

 containing the peep-hole, so that the upper half of 

 the hole is like a half-ring. 



A telescopic sight will do finer work than any sight 

 that can be put on a rifle. But of course the same 

 trouble of estimating distance remains. Up to three 

 hundred yards globe and peep sights are accurate 

 enough if you know your distance. A telescopic 

 sight is troublesome and bungling; is in the way of 



