The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-16

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vociferously applauded, the spectators
being at loss to account for the shoot.
er's marvellous aim. Still Mr.. Paine had
another feat more incomprehensible
than all. His assistant placed an ordi-
nary business card against the target
board with the edge Of the card--not
more than one-sixteentho of an inch thick
toward the shooter. Then MIR Paine,
with the dueling pistol, took a long, un-
erring aim and, at the first shot, hit the
card on the edge, cutting it In exact
halves. The feats with the dueling pis-
tol closed with the shooting OF q cork
from a stone bottle without injuring the
bottle or splitting its contents.
With an army revolver MIR. Paine ex-
hibited several very dexterous shots, tor
which he was heartily applauded. His
assistant standing thirty feet away tossed
glass balls at him, and he shot them be.
fore they could hit him. Then MIR.
Paine threw the balls himself and broke
them with the revolver before they could
reach the ground. With a small rifle
such as is used in shooting. galleries Mr.;
Paine broke balls thrown At him and
away from him.
With a Winchester rifle, a most serv-
iceable weapon and not particularly
easy to handle with accuracy, Paine
shot double balls thrown into the air,
breaking both Of them, and put twelve
shots into a six-inch target in eight sec
! onds. lie then performed the most diff
cult shot known to rifle practice. viz,
the ricochet shot with glass balls: A
glass ball is placed upon the ground, and
the rifleman, by shooting into the
ground. under the ball, throws the
Globe into the mir four or five feet and
Before the ball falls to the ground it is
broken by q second shot. TO do this
not only requires nice judgment in hit
ting the ground in such way that the
bali will not be broken, but the emptied
shell must be thrown out of the rifle and
another cartridge must be thrown in its
place before the second shot which
breaks the ball, can be made. Hence
great quickness, nerve and fa,lltless
aim are necessary. Mr.. Paine success
fully made two ricochet shots, ending
the fancy shot programme.
About q third of = mile from tn
shooting ground was red spar buoy
looking to the spectators to be the slz'
of q lead.pencil. Wishing to see wha
Mr.. Paine could do at long range, re
quests were made that he would shoe
at the buoy. The marksman unhesitat
insly complied, explaining first, howev
er. that he would be obliged to guess a
the elevation, as his rifle was not 6xe'
for long-range shooting. The first sho
went several hundred feet beyond tn
buoy, the second one went about ~
feet beyond the spar, and the third on
alishted within fifty feet Of the object
l All were line shots. The fourth she
, dropped alongside of and bespattere
: the buoy with water raised BY the shot
Then reloading the rifle with sixtee
!, cartridges, Mr.. Paine said he would G.
: up q little isquall around the buoy, and
, firing in rapid succession, the sixtee
/. shots were sent around and within frol
/. six inches to two feet of the buoy, eau
i ing the water to fairly jump. Thus enc
4 ed most entertaining and surprisin
p exhibition of what may be accomplishe
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