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Schmidt Rubin sights have a cleverly diagonaled slot in which the square top post front is mounted. Windage corrections are made by driving the front sight fore and aft, which also moves it right and left – simple. Swiss ordnance likewise gave the rifleman few choices in sight elevation. Only cardinal 100-meter changes selection from 200 to 1500 meters are possible with no “in between” detents.

To take advantage of the undoubtedly well-planned coincidence of bullet impact and elevation settings, I got out some old “D” -type military silhouette targets with “V’s” and 5’s as high scores. At 300 yards, the top of the front sight was “shoulder width” on the target, very visible and easy to hold for elevation on the horizontal lower edge of the black. Slow fire “V’s” were the order of the day. Seventy-second standing-to-prone rapid fire exercises starting with four rounds in the magazine and reloading with six from that funny tin and cardboard Swiss clip were really fun.

Once I got over trying to lift up on the straight-pull bolt T-handle, I found a smooth rhythm of operation that was as satisfying and fast as any fine turnbolt or semi-auto match rifle. After the first uninterrupted rapid fire string I shot I lay there and watched the timer count off an unused 12 seconds that I hadn’t needed.