Mr. Smith's carbine

[Eric Johanen]

Several of the CW carbines like the Spencer, Sharps and Smith have sight leaves that are marked up to rather optimistic distances. Others like the Burnside and Gallager have 3 sight settings: folded down for 50/100 yards, flipped up for 300 and 500 yards. Probably out to 150 for a man sized target. From 200 to 350 for a man on horse back, highest setting for massed formations or fortified positions where massed fire was used. Back when I was participating in NSSA events the longest practical distances shot was 100 yards. I really should test these carbines at 200 and see how accurate they can be.