The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-03
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THE NEEDLE DEVICE TO ASSIST POOH
SHOT.
this season. and one or two OF them
may be easily homemade and tried by
the time the season opens with view
to learning how much of the theoreti-
cal advantage they offer is to be OBJ
tanned in actual practice.
One Of the great drawbacks to gem
eral shooting in most eastern sections
is the great variation met with in the
range Of any given number of shots
That is to say, one shot may be at a
bird that has got up at forty yards. and
the next may be at a rabbit that has
sprung up right under the sportsmans
feet; the consequence is IF not an ex-
pert shot that he will get the one and
miss the other, according to the amount
of choke that has been given to the
barrels of his gun. For the benefit of
the uninitiated, it may be remarked
that the choke" consists in the com
pressing or expansion of the interior
of the barrel near the mu2zle Doth
systems are claimed to have the same
results) and according to the amount
of this CHOKE" the shot is pressed
closer together as it leaves the gun and
fiying close together for a great dis
lance will kill bird or rabbit, where
cylinder gun lone without choke }
would have the shot so scattered at
that distance that the bird would slip
through it unframed, except by
chance.
1t has been the custom to overcome
this difficulty in measure by having
one barrel cylinder and one choke. and
that answered to certain extent, but
the great trouble was that the choke
could not be changed at will. Thanks
to a recent invention exhibited at the
worlds fair this can now be done, and
anyone possessing choke bore gun
can at will transform it SO as 20 give
the target of a cylinder.
This is the method. The cartridge is
loaded in the ordinary way, the pow
der placed at the base, with thick wads
above, and then before the shot is
poured in a curious device made OF two
wads is put in. This consists OF talk
ing two ordinary card wads, and cut
ting with a very sharp knife triangu-
lar piece from each, the apex of the
| triangle being tho center Of each wad-
This being done the two wads are
placed crosswise of each other, and
pushed together SO that they appear
as if one were pushed through the
other. and this being placed in the car
fridge forms four distinct compart-
ments, into which the shot is
| poured, and then the ordinary
| wads are placed above the shot to keep
| it in place. If the gun is a very close
shooter it will be found best to slight
IL increase the charge of powder and
decrease the charge of shot. but in no
case should the wads over the powder
| be changed or interfered with. To
anyone who knows anything about
shooting the merits of this invention
| are perfectly plain upon this descrip-
ton, and actual experiments of the
writer show that the ordinary load OF
q gun giving in thirty inch circle a
| matter of 367 sho: did. with the same
load after applying device, give fine
scatter pattern of esS, covering the
whole circle.
Another curious device, one which is
designed to improve the shooting OF
those who are not as proficient as they
might be. consists of two needles, q
| long one Of about three inches, and q
! shorter one of about an inch and a
half. These are fastened on the rit
OF the gun Tor on the middle of thu
barrel in a single barreleS gum, with
the long needle on the left side ana
the shorter one on the right, the ends
of each being even with each othel
near the muzzle. The theory of tbs
thing is that the sight of the left
eve is known to be defective
and that these little ridges on the rit
Of the gun inst;ncuvcly attract the eys
and compel the sound eye 10 take com
mand and direct the muzzle straight &c
! the mark This is supposing that q
man shoots with both eyes open, and
not with one screwed up tight as wax
for no man with the very few excep
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