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What are backsights?

What are backsights? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of backsight
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If your party is recording corrected backsights be sure to read the upper scale if you are shooting a backsight.
Our team consisted of Ralph as sketcher, Pat Bingham keeping book, Edgard Bertaut taking foresights with me on point, setting stations and doing backsights.
Taking backsights is a way of detecting errors and blunders in reading instruments.
This process is an example of one done without using backsights, still fairly common.
A number of intermediate instrument set-ups are selected, so that sighting distance for backsights and foresights are approximately equal.

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