Berthier Mle 1892 Deadeye

BERTHIER MLE 1892 DEADEYE. (See also, CARBINES, BOLT ACTION) The Berthier Mle 1892 Deadeye is a bolt- action rifle with an affixed Deadeye scope. The Berthier itself is a lightened mousqueton, being easier to handle and ideal for those in mobile positions. The Deadeye scope enhances its potential as a lightweight and maneuverable sniper s rifle, making an ideal compromise between range, handling, and power.

Journal of Jed Owenthal
Lightly worn, red leather 4.25" x 8.25"
July 25th, 1895

Whatever my Anna and the babe want, I'll get. Where ever my Anna and the babe are, I'll find.

Two weeks now they've been gone and I've searched high and low to no luck. They was looking frail, the last times, even though they ate and ate and ate. No healthy plumpness, no rosy cheeks no more, just gaunt and sickly and whatever just seemed to drop right off them.

My Anna blamed me at first. I blamed me. The babe was perfect as ever and never complained or whined or cried but just ate everything in front of it and ever wanted for more, but never put on more weight, then thinned and thinned.

I looked all over, tried tracking them. Tried to hire a skilled tracker to search for me, but no luck. He took one look at the personal affects I provided for his dogs to scent and he ran. Tried to consult a priest, to see if God in his wisdom had a plan for all this. The priest said that if there was, we were surely forsaken. Went to the sheriff for help, he locked me in the jail for the night.

All said that whatever they was now I didn't want to find it. But I need my Anna and I need my babe.

I thought I tracked them down last night. A woman with babe in arms running cross a field. I hollered for them to stop. I sighted them with my rifle, lining up her pretty white ankle in the crosshair, and fired.

The wound in her leg was awful, and I felt terrible too, because it was for nothing. Was not my Anna and babe. I begged her forgiveness before I was on my way, but it did not forthcome.