The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24
EXPERT SHOOTERS.
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Big Rangers of TEXAS

Big Rangers OF Texas
The rangers were the largest men saw
IN Texas. the state ot big men And soma
OF them were remarkably handsome in .
sunburRsd. broad shougdered. easy, manly
way. They were slso setnew hat shy vita
tho strangers. listening very intensly, bus
speaking little, and then ia a slow, gentis
voice, and As they spoke - seldom. they
seemed 10 think what they bad 20 SAY xAs
too valuable to spell b. profanity.
When General Aabry found they would
not tell OF their adventures, he asked thera
to show how they could shoot, aud as this
was something they could do. and noE
something already done, they went ansf0t
it as gleefuliy as schooiboys at recess do
ing "stihts." Taey placed board = feos
wide and two feet high some sixty tret ea
ia the prairie, aud Sheriff SChesiey cpened
hostilities 10y whipping out has revolver
turning IL ia the air and shooting. with
the sights upside down. into tie buTfseys
OF the impTamptu target. BE did this
without disseminating what he was saying
To me. but rather as though he were
punctuating his remarks with audible
commas.
Then he said. Il didn't think a. you
rangers - JuId let a Httse che penny sheTs
III get in the first shot Ola ycu." lie could
AFFORD to say this, .because he had been q
ranger him ELI, and his brother Jos was
one OF the best captains the rangers have
had, and he and all OF hss brothers are oveg
six feet high. Bat the taunt produced ad
instantaneous voiley from every man IN
the company; they did not take the tron be
to rise but sHot from where they happened
TO be sitting or lying and taking together,
and the air rang with the reports and q
hundred quick vibrating little gasps. hka
the singing Il a. wire string when it -
frightened Oh a banjo.
They exhibited some most wonderful
shooting. They shot with both hands az
the same time. with the hammer undes-
meath, holding the rife ia one hand, anil
never, when il was a revolver they were
using. with glance At the sights They
would sometimes IRE feUT shots from =
Winchester between the time they bad
picked II up from he ground aud before
IL had nestled comfortably against their
shoulder. They also sent one man CO pony
racing around a tree about A. thick "a =
mans leg. and werr dissatisfied because IA
only put four ont Of SIX shots into IL. Then
General hah-y. who seerned 20 think / did
not fully appreciate what they were doing.
gave a Winche rife 70 Captain Brooks
and myself and told rs u show which It
Us c0uld first put eight shots into the tar
get.
X seems that 20 shoot Wibckeztsr yotI
have 70 pull trigger enc way and work =
lever bsc kw ard and forward This woul6
naturally suggest tHst thegs arc thre,
n1overReBts--one 10 throw cot the smpif
she'll, one - replace lt With another ear
fridge and the third 20 - plods tkss car
fridge. Captain BrooEs - far as I eGaid
make out froEa the SOUND, ussd emily ora
movement fer his entire eiRnt ssots, A.
guessed. the trial was more N show Cap
tain Brooks quickness rather shan h.ss
uaArksInsnship paid 10 attention 70 tho
target. bat devoted nyssif assida0sIssy -
manipulating TIE lever and trigger. ans
aimed blankly ~ be prairie
When ! bad fired TIC sLots inta space
the captain Rad put his eight into ths
board They ssuraed - they NsE2-.d IKE
frecrackeFs vel started IN barrel. Ausks
mine, IN comparison. ike inmate guns ~
sea TIE Sanzsrs ! foand. after ! saw
more o. then. cos3id sho9s ~ rsgiaiY wlsh
a reFoiVsT - sisb a r,ge sod rad ieeaas
80 expert v4th the smaller vsapos ira IN
stead q pres ~ the trigger ~ sSch skos
thsT xould Fuil steadily "a u Ard snsy 10
hammer uf.t5l the AK at.e.s were exhausted
90 Richard Harding Davis ia Harp~T's
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