Annie Oakley was a 'natural' shot in every sense of the word and her act included an astonishing variety of feats. Most sensational perhaps were the tricks in which she split a playing card with a .22 pistol, or, turning and sighting in what, at the time, was calculated to be half a second, shot a falling four-inch tin disk before it hit the ground.

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