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To: long-gone who wrote (86547)	6/6/2002 2:49:13 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 116830

The rifle that could really reach out and hit bison was the 1850 Sharpes. It was breech loading and could shoot 600 yards really accurately. There is a story of a company of Sharpes shooters demonstrating for Lincoln the shooting at 600 yards of Officer's coats buttons from a dummy. It was said the Sharpes in a good man's hands from prone positions could consistently hit bison at 1000 to 2000 yards. Despite the good rifle brigades of the north, I was the southern soldier that handled his weapon better on the average as he was more often in his lifestyle in need of it. The flint lock rifle even with a 48 inch barrel was good to 500 yards. Most often the range was 200. Cannon on the other hand were dead accurate from 200 to 500 yards, rifled cannot lobbing balls into targets the size of a basket ball at thos distances. The lay person does not realize that cannon by the time of the revolution were aimed rather accurately by sights like a rifle, at individual targets, and often running or walking. Thus the artillery had analog calculators or sliderules to measure timing of the shot for this. This was developed from the time of Galileo and was a hard science computing air resistance etc, by the time of Napoleon and fourier. It was even more complex aboard shipwith the target and the shooting ship moving. I guarantee you that the average 2nd year student of today in physics or calculus could not attempt the calcs they used to develop trajectories with in the late 1700's. Much was made of the colonial army of the revolution. They fired well from cover. But often after the first volley they would retreat rather quickly. No use standing in the field and receiving return fire. What the colonials did well for most of the war was survive and not lose too bad. In the end logistics overcame the British who went about commanding the field until the could command no longer. EC<:-}

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