Dixie Gun Works used to offer a replica of the Civil War era stadia, complete with a little cloth pouch carry case. I bought one and still have it. As far as its accuracy goes, while I didn't compare it to any modern transit or range finders, but a friend of one of my team members was showing his new $600 range finder to a group of us sitting in camp up at the National a few years back, and someone asked him to pick out an object to range. I ranged the object visually, like I learned to do in infantry basic, and my distance was within five feet of the distance he ranged with his $600 range finder!
Well, I was the cycle's top graduate and even set post record for BRM for scoring a perfect score (scoring 40 pop-up targets but with a round left over). As far as is known, that feat hasn't been matched much less broken in 30 years!
Last edited by R. McAuley 3014V; 01-03-2013 at 11:45 PM.
First Cousin (7 times removed) to Brigadier General Stand Watie (1806-1871), CSA
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles | Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1862-66
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