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Re:Pistol sights by maxerickson on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:30PM (#14546027)
A curiosity that was also cutting edge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle

It seems to have taken to ~1850 for practical military repeating rifles.

edit: Your comment is still young, but I'll note for history that I replied with the wiki link before you had added it to your comment.

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Re:Pistol sights by CapitalistCartr on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:43PM (#14546167)
Yeah, thank you. It took me a bit to get there. My Google-fu is weak today. I need mind-linked cyber-Google . .
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