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Have you ever done any shooting at 400 yards,especially with a PRB? If not you should try it and get a quick education about the subject.
Open sight shooting at these distances is also another very difficult thing to pull off on a man size target.
As far as I know the Indians were never sold target rifles but rather poorly made trade guns and some average built rifles. These had no siting provision for long distance shooting,it would be Kentucky windage all the way, in other words guess work.
Taking proper care of them would have been another factor for combatants on the run.
A round ball is coming down hill like a meteor at even 200 yards let alone 400 making routine hits on a man with open sighting rather improbable from an experienced marksman let alone a whole tribe of them.
For these reasons I have great doubt about the accounts of long range sniping by numerous Indian combatants with very average open sighted rifles. Mike D.
Open sight shooting at these distances is also another very difficult thing to pull off on a man size target.
As far as I know the Indians were never sold target rifles but rather poorly made trade guns and some average built rifles. These had no siting provision for long distance shooting,it would be Kentucky windage all the way, in other words guess work.
Taking proper care of them would have been another factor for combatants on the run.
A round ball is coming down hill like a meteor at even 200 yards let alone 400 making routine hits on a man with open sighting rather improbable from an experienced marksman let alone a whole tribe of them.
For these reasons I have great doubt about the accounts of long range sniping by numerous Indian combatants with very average open sighted rifles. Mike D.