Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Telescopic Sight for Shooter. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Telescopic Sight for Shooter.

The corps of sharpshooters now on duty in the Philippines has just been equipped with telescopic sights for their rifles. Experiments with the new sights have been carried on for the last six months

by the Army Board of Ordnance, and it has been found that the Krag-Jor-gensen rifle is as effective with the telescopic sight in use at a range of 2,000 yards as at 500 yards with the ordinary sights. It is expected that the telescopic sight will be especially valuable In the dark and shadowy jungles of the tropical forest in the Philippines. It has

also been found effective Ln foggy and misty weather, enabling the marksman to see clearly objects which are altogether obscured otherwise. The telescopic sight selected Is one which magnifies twelve diameters. It is of practically universal focus, and therefore does not need readjustment for different marksmen or for different ranges.