Re: the hunt

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Posted by Neuromancer on December 22, 1997 at 11:38:55:

In Reply to: the hunt posted by Jo's LOTM husband on December 21, 1997 at 23:43:31:

: The other poetic license taken was the range of the black powder rifle. Having the ability to put two bullets in the heart of a running object at two hundred yards, I doubt that feat could be done from the fort with a black power rifle of that era, and if it did it would take quite a bit of luck.

Hey, in Fenimore Cooper's Pathfinder, Deerslayer-Hawkeye-Long-Rifle-Leatherstocking-Pathfinder-Bumppo can hunt flies at a hundred yards! Why not an elk at two hundreded (even if it is moving)

;->

"Be all ready to clench it, boys!" cried out Pathfinder, stepping into his friend's tracks the instant they were vacant. "Never mind a new nail; I can see that, though the paint is gone, and what I can see I can hit at a hundred yards, though it were only a mosquito's eye. Be ready to clench!"

Nonetheless, point well taken!

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: : The other poetic license taken was the range of the black powder rifle. Having the ability to put two bullets in the heart of a running object at two hundred yards, I doubt that feat could be done from the fort with a black power rifle of that era, and if it did it would take quite a bit of luck. 

: Hey, in Fenimore Cooper's Pathfinder, Deerslayer-Hawkeye-Long-Rifle-Leatherstocking-Pathfinder-Bumppo can hunt flies at a hundred yards!  Why not an elk at two hundreded (even if it is moving)

: ;->

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: "Be all ready to clench it, boys!" cried out Pathfinder, stepping into his friend's tracks the instant they were vacant. "Never mind a new nail; I can see that, though the paint is gone, and what I can see I can hit at a hundred yards, though it were only a mosquito's eye. Be ready to clench!"

: --

: Nonetheless, point well taken!

: (The link may or may not work, as it is to my webpages which are so heavily under construction that they are virtually unreadable).


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