The Holbrook news., 1910-06-03
KILLED WITHOUT HITTING.
Daniel Boone Was a Wonderful MarLsman and Never Missed.

Daniel Boone Was a Wonderful
 Marksman and Never Missed.
 As a small boy Tip heard an old gentleman, upward of 100, tell about seeing Daniel Boone, and about some of his mighty doings when this oid gentleman himself was small boy, according to the New York Times. He said that Boone was very large man, something over six feet, deep-chesteh, very heavy shouldered, but was small in the belly, with long, thin, strong legs. large, hard hands and feet and iron gray hair and hazel eyes, very large and with sights always opening and shutting, working actively like the nervous pupil of the eye of a game rooster. Boone was passing through from a trip out West and had with him only his hatchet, hunting knife and rifle and was without dogs or com panions. He had only coonskin cap, buckskin hunting shirt down to his knees. high laced cowskin moccasins and no pants or underclothes. His rifle was as tall as Boone himself and very heavy, with a long, thin. white hickory ramrod. This old man had been a hunter all his life and said the rifle was the biggest and heaviest he had ever seen.
 The great thing was to see Boone shoot. Boone. without taking a rest, hit spot every time as big as mans hat at 200 yards, aiming very slowly and deliberately, for that was long be- fore the days of cartridges and quick snap-shooting Boone at forty or fifty yards "barked'' two squirrels, then an unheard-of marvel, though common enough now. He hit the bark of the tree right under where the squirrel was sitting crouching, and when the rife said pop MT. Squirrel was blown up into the air five or six feet, and picked up stone dead without So much as scratch on him. Killing tough old fox squirrel without bull let touching him or drawing a drop of blood looked like a big magic or witchcraft to early settlers and h. dians.
 Boone drove a nail or two and showed how he loaded his gun. He had a small powder horn filled with finest grain powder about as hard and clean from smut as the best modern; a little hollow powder measure male of elderwood, such as boys make whis- ties of An he showed how he gauged his powder by laying the rifle bullet in the palm of his hand, then pouring on powder until the bullet was just exactly hid in the pile of powder. This was the right load, so he cut his elder to this measure. After pouring the powder down the barrel he laid piece of greased linen patching of finest, smothest homespun over the end, and forced it down the barrel with the butt end of his knife, cut off the patch ing sticking out, then showed the bull let home with the ramrod-a hard, tight job. With a quick jerk of the wrist he would pack tight the bullet and powder and drive so hard that the ramrod almost jumped out of the gun on the rebound.
 Boone's rifle stock was the shortest and most angularly curved of any in the village. And this same Daniel Boone stock, seen for the first tim by the old gentleman, has now been adopt ed as world model by all armies and manufactories. AS a matter of fact, some of the finest Yankee wholesale manufacturers deliberately copied the Kentucky rife stock as their model, as Dr. Norvin Green, the organizer and first president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, long ago told.