Having appeared several centuries ago, firearms have come a long way of evolution. The modern "firearm" differs from the first as much as a cart from a car. Unsurprisingly, there are many interesting things about weapons. For example, I would like to ask - why on the sighting strips of rifles there are designations for 1 and even 2 thousand meters, if without optics at such a distance even the best shooter in the world will not hit the target.
Like any good story, there is a little conspiracy here. The fact is that in the 19th century with the proliferation of weapons, including firearms, the situation was much simpler. At that time, the civilian weapons market was actively developing. For obvious reasons, people paid great attention to the aiming range. That is why the manufacturers allowed themselves some marketing trick and began to mark scopes for absolutely incredible values. So, for example, on pistols of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, values for firing per kilometer were applied. Ultimately, the manufacturers themselves, in order to improve sales, formed in society not entirely correct ideas about the aiming range and the effectiveness of firing.
But it wasn't all that bad. In the second half of the 19th century, the leading armies of the world captured the first magazine rifles that could fire even up to 4 kilometers. Their sights were marked for shooting up to 2 kilometers. All this was the legacy of the "Napoleonic era", when subunits were fired in a salvo manner. An individual shooter will definitely not be able to hit someone at a distance of 2 thousand meters, however, when a whole battalion is shooting, the situation changes.
Interesting fact: however, already in the First World War, salvo rifle shooting will practically completely sink into oblivion and rifles will be used only for individual shooting.
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It is also worth adding that back in the 1890s, the Swiss physicist Friedrich Hebler conducted a number of experiments with firearms and found out that the effective sighting range for the human eye with a mechanical sight (without optics) is 185 meters at best. At a distance of 100 meters, a full-length human occupies only 1 degree of angle, which is already a very small target for the average shooter.
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