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   Happy Mask Salesman (leoban@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 21:58:27 JST Happy Mask Salesman

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   @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro Edit for quotation marks:
   "Gray-eyed men, says a Fort Worth correspondent, are the best marksmen.
   
   This has been proved after eight months’ experience at the rifle range of Camp Bowie, and besides old army experts will tell you the same thing.
   
   When Captain K R Breese was here giving his instruction in the use of the new rifle he said that proficiency in marksmanship usually ran according to the color of the eyes, men having gray being the best shots, gray-blue coming next, blue third, hazel fourth, brown fifth, and black sixth,
   
   Records show that soldiers where eyes are light brown to back cannot shoot with accuracy at a distance greater than 540 yards and at 800 yards miss the target’ altogether.
   
   Even with different nations the color of the eyes has determined shooting ability. Nearly every Mexican has brown or black eyes and they —-well, they're the poorest shots in the world."