Items of Seker

Green Man Guns

These rifles were of a white metal stocked with wood, which

I learned later was a very light and intensely hard growth

much prized on Mars, and entirely unknown to us denizens

of Earth. The metal of the barrel is an alloy composed

principally of aluminum and steel which they have learned

to temper to a hardness far exceeding that of the steel with

which we are familiar. The weight of these rifles is comparatively

little, and with the small caliber, explosive, radium projectiles

which they use, and the great length of the barrel, they are

deadly in the extreme and at ranges which would be unthinkable

on Earth. The theoretic effective radius of this rifle is

three hundred miles, but the best they can do in actual

service when equipped with their wireless finders and

sighters is but a trifle over two hundred miles.