Dixon wrote:

... some of the boys suggested that I try my big .50 on them. The distance was not far from three-fourths of a mile. A number of exaggerated accounts have been written about this incident. I took careful aim, and pulled the trigger. We saw an Indian fall from his horse. The others dashed out of sight behind a clump of timber. A few moments later two Indians ran quickly on foot to where the dead Indian lay, seized his body and scurried to cover. They had risked their lives, as we had frequently observed, to rescue a comrade who might be not only wounded but dead. I was admittedly a good marksman, yet this was what might be called a "scratch shot."

The Indian had not been killed, however. Co-hay-yah, an aged Comanche veteran of the battle, later described the effect of Dixon's long shot to Colonel Nye:

We lost the fight. The buffalo hunters were too much for us. They stood behind Adobe Walls. They had telescopes on their guns. Sometimes we would be standin, 'way off, resting and hardly thinking of the fight, and they would kill our horses. One of our men was knocked off his horse by a spent bullet fired at a range of about a mile. It stunned, but did not kill him.

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Nope, 1538 YARDS.  Against an Indian on horseback (sitting still).  Even as a lucky shot, pretty impressive for a blackpowder cartridge gun.  Here's the relevant part of the story from Dixon and the indian perspective:   From [url]http://www.pan-tex.net/usr/p/pampa-hist/neely.htm[/url]

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S**t -  he's right, folks.  After my post, I did a search and found this:
[url]http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/051900/his_dixon.html[/url]

Hell, for all I know, it could have been 1,53[u]9[/u] yards