Bullets Don't Reach Him.
" When you have to deal with sharpshooters," declared-reeently an old soldier who had seen service at the front, " I tell you, it gives you plenty to think about. "I have (known one such customer to post a black behind a hillock some little way away from his own hiding-place, with instructions to, from time to time, fire off a blank cartridge to ' draw ' the fire of the enemy, while he now and again deliberately picked off a man. "Anctber iittle dodge, illustrated in the
sketch, is for a couple of scarecrows, as it were, to be put up in places that would give shelter to a sharpshooter, whilst the man himself fires from a less prominent position. The enemy hears the shot, spies out with glasses the hats peeping over the hillocks, and blazes away at them. When things get to warm the sharpshooter mounts his horse- and goes off to find another ' nest.' With smokeless powder, of course, such tactics are unnecessary, but everybody has not got that, even yet." j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 67
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176Bullets Don't Reach Him. Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 67
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