| Show NEW SGHT FOR ARMY RIFLES i Telescope Attachment Being Sent to Troops in Philippines Our Government has concluded that superior marksmanship wins In modern warfare and has jiist adopted a new device toward this QndvSome valuable and practical lessons were gained In the Spanish war In regard to Inac I curate shooting when a deal of ammunition t am-munition was used up with no result The bullets in most cases went away above the heads of the enemy This was attributed solely to poor aim and Inability of the soldier to locate and distinguish objects In the hazy distance dis-tance The Government has Just adopted anew a-new telescope sight of great magnifying magnify-ing power which is to Je mounted on the KiuijJorgensen rifle At present the sharpshooter corps In the Philippines Philip-pines have been sent the first Installment Install-ment of the new telescope sight In the dark and shadowy jungles of the I island forest these telescopes are said to have already proved most effectual In bringing down ihfardistant forms I of the Insurgents which without this oJ aid would not have been seen by the = naked eye At a range of 2000 yards In I hazy weather a man can be picked off as easily as at 500 feet In bright light The ordnance board of1 the army has carried on during the last six months a series of exhaustive tests with the telescope i 1 tele-scope sight a Sprjmjlleld range in II j Massachusetts and has recommended I I Its adoption for army purposes The sight was tested byactual firing up to a range oC 2000 yarVlS and more Tho I board reported that the use of the sight is of special value In hazy or foggy weather at long range that In either case the target can be seen with remarkable clearness and the marksman marks-man can be absolutely sure that he is aiming at the proper object The firIng fir-Ing conducted at the target range showed that better targets were secured se-cured with the telescopic sight than with the regular sight The telescopic sight of medium power twelve diameters gave the best result re-sult and wasthc nc selected for future fu-ture use The telescope Is of practical universal focus and therefore does not require readjustment for different marksmen or for different ranges New York Herald I |
