Arizona silver belt., 1895-11-16
SURE SHOOTING.
The Excellent Record Of a Fort
 Wingate Soldier.
Highest Scores Tn skirmlsh Shooting Ever Attained Made by Sergeant Henry Henser, of the United States
 Army.


 There is a soldier in Troop c, of the Second cavalry, at Fort Wingate, who bears the distinction of being the best shot in the United States army. He is Sergt Henry Henser, and not only is he thorough eayalryman in every sense of the word, a perfect carbine and pistol shot, but he has had some ad- ventures that few men would have lived through. l saw the sergeant the other day in his comfortable quarters, and obtained record of his wonderful shooting, as well as the story of a desper- ate battle he had for his life in Arizona in 1890, near Fort Huachuca.
 Sergt. Henser has served as a soldier for almost nineteen years. He is a powerfully built, athletic man of about 3s years of age, and a thoroughly good fellow, so his comrades say His record, as given in Wingate (Ariz.) letter, as a marksman began in 1885 at Vancouver barracks, where he shot on the depart ment team, or, rntheri in preliminary shooting for position on the team, and secured first place, in 1887, in the de- partment of the Columbia shoot, he was No. 16, with score of ASA points. In the following year he raised his score to SIS points, scoring fifth, although there were but seventeen points between him and the winning score at that shoot. All these compe- titions were shot with the military ,-tH A ha ehaf T,ftralry nit n the cavalry carbine. In 1889 at Fort Wingate in the competition of the de- partment of Arizona and California, at which the most skilled marksmen from the various posts in tbut department were shooting, he scored 543 points, winning the department silver medal. During the same competition he shot OF the pistol team, winning the bronze department medal for revolver shoot ing, scoring 73.5 per cent This score. with the former ones he had made, qualified him as distinguished marks man. and gave him the handsome gold medal signifying that rank by the gov ernment
 In competition for a place on the army team of 1890, when marksmen were to be selected for the great army tenn shoot. he scored 557 points against Capt. Rerr's 5G7. He was therefore prevented from shooting on the army team that year, and it was mortifying to him later on to learn that Capt Kerr won the army meda! by 557 points, the very score he had made in the preliminaries. It taught him lesson, however, and he grimly declared that in future the man who disqualified him would have to do some shooting. He proved this a year later, for, notwithstanding the fact that he had almost been torn to pieces in December. 1890. by a silveT-tip bear, he won third place on the army team. and secured the first prize there. winning 2 handsome gold medal, more than seven ounces in weight. He scored 456 points in the army team shoot
 In the Distinguished Marksmcns team shoot in 1892 be won the cele- brated "BufTalo" medal, huge gold adornment sought after more, perhaps than any other insignium of marks manship to be found in the army. T. is larger than the governments gold medal awarded to the win ner of the army team shoot, and fl has to be won from the most distin- guished marksmen in the service. He scored GOO points in this shoot. In the same competition in 1893, at Fort Shcri. Jan, he again won the Buffalo" medal with score of 5s2 Some one tam pered with the sights of his carbine at this shoot, and after he commenced to fire he had 10 take a new carbine. about which he knew nothing He found that it shot a trife too high. He allowed for this, and won first prize in spite of the machinations of his enc mics. Again in last years shoot he captured a greatly prized "Bufalo" medal, and now has three of them, in addition to the first prize medal of the government for the army, and less yaIu- able decorations enough to cover his breast. He has made the highest scores in sldrmish ever attained, name ly, ITO, IF and 1s4 out of a possible 900 points.-Boston Traveller.