354: THE STILL-HUNTER. 



The front sight is generally made too high. It 

 need be just high enough to enable you to see when 

 you catch too much of it with the eye. High sights 

 are harder to catch with the eye and easier to catch 

 in anything else than low ones. In falling snow they 

 are better, but then even high ones are bad enough, 

 and the rifle should be carried upside down, and oc- 

 casionally wiped, with any sights. With low sights 

 you cannot so well raise the trajectory by what is 

 called a "coarse bead" taking a coarse view of front 

 sight. But this in the long-run will be the greatest 

 blessing that could happen you. 



It is often convenient to have a quickly adjustable 

 globe-sight on the rifle. The principle of Beach's 

 combination-sight is a good one, but the open part of 

 it is entirely too dull, besides the objection of vary- 

 ing play of light upon it. Cut it down one half and 

 solder a little strip of gold on it. Or, which is better 

 yet, cut it off entirely and set a low ivory sight in 

 front of it that can be seen over the ring when flat, 

 and above which the globe can be seen when the ring 

 is raised. 



But here is one, in my humble opinion, better yet 

 for one who needs a globe-sight at all; and with it the 

 best of horizontal shooting can be done. I have 

 never known any one else use it, but I found it very 

 good. 



Take a common long-barreled globe-sight and cut 

 away with a file or drill all of the top half of the bar- 

 rel or cylinder except just enough to protect the 

 thread and ball making a perfect cage of it and ad- 

 mitting all the light possibe. Then put a golden ball 

 upon the thread and whiten all the inside of the 

 cylinder with paint so as to cast as much light as pos- 



