An Electric "Front-Sight” for Firearms.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2014, 7 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

An Electric "Front-Sight” for Firearms.

Is shooting deer or other game for which the riSe is employed, there is often a difficulty in getting an aim in the early morning or evening (which is the best time for getting a shot on account cf there not being light enough to enable the front-right of the rifle to be seen.

TVs invention is designed to overcome this dii’ict.Uy by means of a temporary front-sight, to be fixed to the rifle when the light is not good eaoegh to sec the ordinary fixed frontsight properly. This temporary front-sight consists, briefly, of a very email incandescent or glow lamp (something like a dentist s), covered with a metal shield.

The shield has a small bole in it, through which the light shines, and the snot of light, being turned towards the shooter, is used as the " bead ”of the front sight in aiming, a small electric battery in the stock of the rifle generating the electricity for the lamp. A silver battery, of not more than 5) cubic inches capacity, is cncuch, as the 1 min reed only glow, like the wick ol a candle freshly blown out.

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