The Holt County Sentinel

Three gentlemen, members of the Rochester Amateur Rifle Club, on a recent afternoon were in the town of Brighton target-shooting. The distance was 800 yards; all three were shooting Creedmoor-rifles. From the firing point to the target the ground gradually ascended, so that a small telescope, but a good one, firmly fixed to a tree, at a distance of perhaps thirty feet, made a fine point for observation. One of the shooters, while looking through the glass to mark a shot of one of his companions, exclaimed that he saw the ball as it sped on its mission. The announcement was received with incredulity: but one of the other shooters went to the glass, and he also saw the ball almost as it left the gun, and through its whole flight, nearly the whole line of its trajectory, until it struck the target. So interesting and beautiful was the sight that every shot was watched by one or other of the gentlemen; and it is an actual fact that the point at which the ball would strike the target could be seen before the ball struck. It was even insisted upon that the rotary motion of the ball could be observed.