 "Something wrong, Bert?""Not if you have some Old Fool pills for
me, Doc."
"Uh-oh. What happened?"
"Well, I'd been telling the Johnson kid some stories of the old
days when I was guiding hunters, and I happened to mention I could
sight in a rifle with only two shots."
"You can do that?"
"Yes. So can anyone, if they have a cardboard box. So anyway,
here I was giving the kid my spiel about sighting in a rifle with
two shots, and he said he'd like to see a demonstration."
"Sounds fair enough."
"Well, yeah, and I didn't mind. I figure we owe it to the next
generation ..."
"Come on, Bert." Dud said. "What happened?"
"Well, you know, you get a solid bench rest and aim at the target
and fire one shot, right? So then you get a cardboard box and notch
it and use rocks or sand to anchor it solidly so you can immobilize
your rifle and you set it up so the rifle can't move and it is
showing the exact same sight picture you used for the first shot."
"I didn't know about this," Doc said.
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"Simple, really. So you're looking at the bull's-eye the way you
did on the first shot, and without moving the rifle itself, you
adjust the sights until they're pointed at the bullet hole in the
target. That's it. You then remove the cardboard box, sight at the
bull's-eye and shoot again. It should be dead-on."
"That makes sense," Dud said. "So what went wrong?"
Bert said, "Well, we loaded up everything we needed: chair,
table, box, bread wrappers full of sand, target, everything. Then we
drove out to the gravel pit and set it all up, just right. Took
quite a while. Finally we were ready, so I went over and unzipped my
rifle case and pulled out my shotgun."
"So how many of those Old Fool pills do you need, Bert?"
"All you can spare me, Doc. All you can spare."
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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