Public opinion in still divided a Home concerning the monte of the short service-rifle. The long barr of the Lee-Enfield has retained popularity for target practice, even among the Regular forces, though fo Service work the Mark III ix held to be unrivalled, especially for rapidity fire. There has been a revalatnay sltersion i in the sights, however, for in place of the fine barleycorn foraielt sot in a V, the musketry sta decided upon a rectangular sight fied in the centre of an exaggerated U, the horns of which are turned outwards in such a way that they cannot be mie taken for the foresight. This righting arrangement, while quite new as api to rifles, is similar to the plan adopted in the Colt revolver. In the exhaustive trials recently concluded it has bes found that the riffenian could "pick up" this new sight at dawn and dak when the barleycorn and V_coald int be seen, and this Intest device hes proved unquestionably better than the fine sight at moving and vavishig objects, during a mist, rain, and wood fighting, and when firing from duck shelters, which are often occupied doriag active service.
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