Word: backsight
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...leader, "raised his gun and sighted it carefully at me. I tried not to look, but soon I had to raise my eyes. The tip of the foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind, the messiness and the pain of death...
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