194 COLONEL hanger's 



feet broad, and five feet ten inches in 

 height, be placed before a MOST perfect 

 marksman, and direct him to aim at all 

 distances from 100 to 300 yards, EauALLY 

 ALIKE, ever at the center or bull's eye, 

 painted on the figure of the man ; never to 

 hold higher nor lower; I engage that this gun 

 is capable of striking the figure of a man, 

 from the execution and peculiar construc- 

 tion of it. When the soldier comes on 

 actual service, with my gun, it is a matter 

 of total indifference whether the enemy he 

 fires at be 100 or 300 yards distant: not 

 that I mean to say that even the most 

 EXPERT marksman can fire with that exact, 

 nice precision at 300 as he can at 100 

 yards ; for the human eye, though ever so 

 perfect, cannot extend its vision to 300 

 yards, with that exact precision which it can 

 at 100 yards; but this gun will effectually da 

 axvay the ivant of judgment the soldier la- 

 bours under, in respect to what distance 

 the enemy is from him in action. 



With the rifles at present in use,, you 

 must first teach a man to fire at 100 j^ards, 

 then at 150, then at 200, then at 250, then 



