Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — EVERY SOLDIER A DEAD SHOT [ARTICLE]

EVERY SOLDIER A DEAD SHOT

Englishman Has Invented a New Kind of Rifle Sight That Seems To Be Deadly. Every soldier who has been in battle knows that the vast majority of bullets never find their mark. It has been estimated that in the South African war it required more than five thousand bullets to hit one of the enemy. . . This is due chiefly to the difficulty which soldiers have in finding their distance range tn the heat of battle. However good they may be at target shooting at Bisley, it is a very different thing when they have to fire at an unknown distance at living targets which are answering their shots. The boldest and gravest man is excited, and it is a supreme test of nerves and skill,to make that cool calculation which is .necessary to judge the distance between himself and the enemy —not an easy thing, however steady a man’s pulse may be. But now there comes an invention which promises to make every soldier a dead shot The inventor is H. Ommundsen, known as king’s prizeman at Bisley. i - By the application of a simple geometrical law—very simple, like other things, when you happen to know it — he has produced a new rifle sight which does away altogether with the difficulty of finding the range of distance. The soldier, simply has to judge the apparent height of the object which he desires to hit which by experience Is known to be absurdly easy, and to shoot according to a fixed sight, at a point below the object equal to its height A U he does that he ‘•drops" his man. Naturally the nearer he is to the object the taller it looks, so that the point at irhlch the rifleman aims varies to exactly the same degree.—London Chronicle.