Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-10-13

rax NEEDLE DEVICE To Assist A room
suoT.

snor.
this season, and one or two Of them
may be easily homemade and tried by
the time the season opens with view
90 learning how much of the theoreti.
cal advantage they offer Is 70 be OBJ
tanned In actual practice.
One of the great drawbacks to gen.
cral shooting In most eastern sections
In tho great variation met with In the
range Of any given number Of shots.
That Is % say. one shot may be at u
bird that has got up at forty yards, and
the next may be At rabbit that has
sprung up right under the sportsman's
feet: the consequence Is lif 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 10 the
barrels OF his gun For the benefit of
the uninitiatcd. IL may DO remarked
that the .'ehoke" consists in the com
pressing or expansion of the interior
of the barrel near the muzzle (both
systems are claimed To have the same
results) and according To the amount
of this choke" the shot Is pressed
closer together as IL leaves the gun. and
flying close together for a great dis
lance will kill bird or rabbit. where
cylinder gun tone without ''choke')
would have the shot so scattered At
that distance that the bird would slip
through IL unframed. except by
chance.
II has been the custom 10 overcome
A. l. n H. H.. sfvss~
one barrel cylinder and one choke. and
that answered To n certain extent, but
the great trouble was that the choke"
could not be changed ut will Thanks
10 q recent invention exhibited at the
worlds fair this can now be done. and
anyone possessing a choke bore gun
can at will transform IL so as TO give
the target OF a cylinder.
This IL the method. The cartridge Is
loaded in the ordinary way, the pow
der placed at the base, with thick wnds
above. and then before the shot is
poured in a curious device made Of two
wads Is put in. This consists of TAX
ing two ordinary card wads. and cut
ting with a very sharp knife a trianeu-
lar piece from each. the apex of the
triangle being the center of each wnd.
This being done the two wads are
placed crosswise OF each other, and
pushed together 50 that they appear
as IL one were pushed through the
other. and this being placed in the ear
fridge forms four distinct compart-
ments. into which the shot is
poured, and then the ordinary
syads are placed above the shot 10 keep
IL In place. IL the gun is n very close
shooter IL will be found best 90 slight
ly increase the charge of powder md
decrease the charge of shot. but In no
case should the wads over the powder
be changed or interfercd with To
anyone who knows anything about
shooting the merits of this invention
are perfectly plain upon this deserip-
ton. and actual experiments of the
writer show that the ordinary load OF
. gun giving In a thirty inch circle
matter OF s67 shot did. with the same
load after applying device. give fine
scatter pattern of 3S3. covering the
whole circle.
Another curious device. one which In
designed TO improve the shooting of
those who are not as proficient as they
might be. consists of two needles. n
long one Of about three inches. and n
shorter one of about an inch and a
half These are fEatened on the rib
Of the gum Tor on the middle of tho
barrel in n single barrcled gun), with
TIE long needle on the left side and
the shorter one on the right. the ends
Of each being even with each other
near the muzrie. The theory Of the
thing IL that tho sight of tho left
ere h known 10 be defective
and that these little ridges ON the rib