TELESCOPIC SIGHT EOR FIELD GUNS. 
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practice without telescopes at the same range of 3000 yds. A strong 
and very variable breeze which was blowing diagonally across the 
range at the time of my trial would alone account for the variations 
above. 
No difficulty of any importance was experienced in laying from the 
muzzle; it only required a little practice in the way of giving the 
words of command to the No. 5. The correct method of doing this 
was very quickly ascertained (and would be,, of course, laid down for 
general use), and the result was a quicker laying than with the 
ordinary sights. There was one inconvenience, and that was a ten¬ 
dency on the part of the No. 1 to rest his arm upon the chase, in 
which case, if he bore down, the play of the elevating screw destroyed 
the laying. 
It was objected that this method of sighting would be very awkward 
in a gun-pit. Perhaps it would; but everything is awkward in a 
gun-pit. It is quite possible to lay in this way from a gun-pit, just as 
it is to load with a muzzle-loader, though awkward. 
I may, perhaps, be allowed to add that the gunners themselves were 
delighted with it, and I believe would be glad to forego the satisfaction 
of being comfortable for the more solid advantages of being “ able to 
see things so clearly.” 
