NEW RIFLE SIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 14

NEW RIFLE SIGHT.

WONDERFUL INVENTION OF A KING'S PRIZEMAN. . i woaderful new rifle-sighting derict which, it fe claimed, eliminates the difficulties of range-finding in rifle shooting, is now under the consideration of the British military authorities with ft view to adoption in the services. It is the invention of a Territorial non-commissioned omcer, Sergeant Ommundsen, of the Queens Edinburgh Rifles, a winner of the king's Prize at Bisley, and one of th« oust rifleshots in tho country. No less a ballistical authority than Sir George Greenhill, formerly a professor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, describes the new system of sighting as likely to bring about a revolution m the art of shooting. Successful tests with the device have already been carried out at the Army Musketry School at Hythe. Tho whole system is based upon a geometrical theory of angles, and by the practical adaptation of this particular scientific theory Hr. Omimmdsen has evolved his speoial rifle-sight, ■ which he calls a "two-point negative angle battleIts whole value is that it does away with the need for range finding. The immense importance of that is obvious, for in rifle shooting, unless tho distance of the object fired at is known accurately, the shot it likely to bo wasted. In operation the device is extremely simple. Its working part consists of a circular shutter pierced with a tiny nperturo. A Binall lever moTes the shutter, and when tho lever is down to a right-hand position tho sighting aperture is lowdown, and conversely whon the lever is at a left-hand position the aperturo is high. Those high and low positions are the only two sighting points of the aperture. In uso tho lever is moved to the left and the aperture is high when the rifle is boing fired at men advancing and the lever is to the right and the aperture low when the riflo is being fired at objects behind "Tests under skirmishing conditions," stated Mr. Ommundsen, "haTe ehown that the percentage oh hits when using the sight is ninety-five, as against nineteen when using ordinary sights. By the uso of tho sight any man who can shoot—and it is a soldier's business to do that—and lakes aim correctly can hit objects at distances that are unknown to him."

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