Sentence examples for open sights from inspiring English sources

Two years ago, she shot a big doe between the eyes at forty yards with open sights.

In the 1850s the tactics of artillery were simple: the gun was positioned well to the front and fired across open sights straight at the enemy.

In 1679 the English astronomer Edmond Halley visited Hevelius and compared the use of a sextant having telescopic sights with Hevelius' sextant with open sights.

Yet to expect the members of the Eastern news media to be able to compare, say, the advantages of open sights versus closed sights as readily as they can discuss the relative merits of arugula versus endive is to ask the impossible, to hear the gun makers tell it.

To make up the difference 3 inch guns, firing over open sights from 1918 were used.

As they withdrew, they were engaged by the battery's guns firing over open sights.

The group's large supply of weapons and vehicles was kept in open sight.

If given a chance to do it again, she would, she said, live in open sight.

In Iowa, where the caucuses mean voting is done in open sight, the Bradley effect could not take place.

The acoustics were superb either way (though one viewer, at least, preferred the open sight line, whether there was anything substantial to see or not).

In February, Mr. Saeed, who lives in open sight in Lahore despite a $10 million United States bounty for information leading to his capture, warned that "just as America had to run away, then India, you will leave Kashmir".