Indicator

An apparatus for instructing soldiers in aiming the musket. A steel rod, pa ing through a bra tompion in the muzzle, is projected forwards by the firing-pin. The rod carries a sharp point in the line of the sights, which punctures a miniature target a foot or so in front of the muzzle. Indicator Ring:. — A thin narrow ring of wrought iron, fitted on the breech-screw of a breech-loading gun, with a raised line of bra on it, which shows by its coincidence with a similar line on the top end of the breech-screw whether the vent is properly screwed up.