Michael,
That was an unbelievable read, I cant remember ever reading anything that detailed. It was GREAT.
I happen to have a H.M. Pope S&W Single Shot and some targets that he shot in 1913. I'm going to print this out and re-read it a few more times.
You mentioned that Pope guaranteed his rifles to shoot a 10 shot 3" group at 200 yds., I'm sure you can answer this question, what was the size of the 10 ring on the 200 yd. target at that time, just curious, I would think that the 3" group would be all 10's. The Pope target that I have for the S&W Single Shot shows 55 Shots at 50 yds in about 1", the 10 ring on the 50 yd target at that time I believe was 3.36", more than good enough to shoot perfect scores at 50 yds.
Thanks again for such a great article.
ST
