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Doc just smiled at her as they rode about her comments and then nodded, "It's quite easy. If you can aim the iron sights of your side arm as I'm sure you have many times, it's identical on these rifles but just further apart." He began scouting for a target to make a demonstration. In a small field was a boulder. Stopping the horses, he pointed it out as he drew the rifle, cocking the lever underneath, "Observe, Miss," he said with some swagger.
He put the butt in his shoulder, leveled the sights and fired. There was the loud "bang" and the sound of a ricochet as the bullet hit the boulder. Almost immediately, he cocked it again and fired with the same result before doing it a third time. Finally, he raised it and smiled, "it's quite easy and it will fire as fast as you dare charge it."
He then handed her the rifle with a smile, "Try it!"