The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-05
ALL FUN FOR SPORTSMEN,
or INVENT 1Bs TO WAEEI
GUN FIT ron ILL GAME.

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Btsr's disastrous Journey Out TO See.
Prom time TO time q man asks for . gun that
will serve for two widely different purposes
q run, for instance, that viii DO deadly on
ouails at one instant, and then drop dead q
buck or bear the next, without intervening
bother. II was TO satisfy such q mai that
the rife and shotgun combined was made-the
rife barrel being either on top of or alongside
the other. This did not suit the bird hunter,
who wanted two shots at his birds, and bullets
for a chance herd Of big game. Then a manu-
facturer supplied q three-barrelled Run-two
barrels for shot and one o rife, which served
its purpose all right enough for some men, while
others considered IL awkward. The latter fol-
lowed the plan Of carrying q few buckshot
shells. though the idea of using buckshot
which was apt TO main their game but not
kill IL, was not looked on with favor.
Another man Rot an idea which he thought
would satisfy anybody. He made n pair of
gun barrels with the choke six inches from
the muzzle. instead of one inch. He riaed
the six riches, his theory belrR that the
shot would be punched at the choke and
would fly clear of the riHi-g, the d.
ameter of which was enough smaller than
the choke 70 catch the bullet in the grooves
and send IL whirllng like the bullet from q genu-
inc rife. II the shot struck the riding they
would 20 whirling too-go all over q big barn
door at thirty feet. As a matter of fact, the
gun made o pretty good pattern at 40 yards,
and II still used extensively in India, where
. man Il as apt to mako n double at a bird and
tiger or deer as q hunter here In the United
States Il TO get o ruffed grouse and a woodcock
with right and left. The gun was good with
shot, and as q rifle Il would do deadly work
1t 100 yards with q oonioal or spherical bull
let Still there was something lacking, and
inventive sportsman CROPPED for it, not know
ing what or where It was.
Then q man brought out a rifed tube that
would carry a bullet. He showed this tube
into one of his shotgun barrels. and had then
what was practically q rife and q shotgun in
one. with the barrels side by side az In the old
days, with the advantage that II he wanted to
he could convert the rife barrel into o shot
gun barrel by pulling out the rife tube. This
idea saved the carrying of two guns-a rifle
and q ehotgun-but It was unsatisfactory to
sportsmen, being intolerably inaccurate.
Another man started of on u new tack. He
made q 45-oalibre shell out of solid steel,
with the rounded point of the bullet. He
bored this steel cylinder out with a drill. He
ri1ed the hole. and put into 1t a 22.calibre
rim-firo short cartridge. He then put the false
shell into his 45-calibre repeating rifle as the
last Of the nine cartridges. He worked tho
lever, and he had q 22-calibre rife fit to shoot
o grouse's head of at from ten to thirty yards.
He tried 1t. and killed the bird. and on work
ing the lever was literally loaded for q grizzly
bear OF a bull moose with the regulation bar
cartridge" He didn't make this shell to sell,
but told his brother eportsmen about II.
There are several weapons on the market
that have INTERCHANGEABLE, barrels both for
and the shotgun barrels. They are well liked
by some, but there is still a lot OF people look.
The newest thing in this line is a gun brought
out by Al English firm which Is almost en-
~ oF e Is the thew sho 1T s shsii Io be sl ass% ii a ' 9iss sme TSo
Tias scatters the shot. but at very short range
What the Englishman did thi. time was to
rife the barrel for the whole distance. but, as
the London Neld says, the riding consists. OF
are blended together In such a manner that to
an insxperienced eye the riding Is Invisible,
Ing. the riding raised instead Of n sanSen u The The
bSetd goes on TO say that "a fortnight ago we
s sion Ella = .S-S %iss 4 a0 osnESs nf s Egn Of Gra this deseS!D'
Q powder and ON $50 grain bullet. A muzzie
velocity Of 1855 feet per second and an energy
Of 4.564 foot pounds were developed" Ten
lAots were fired at fifty yards at a rectangular
spot 8 BY 24 inches. One bullet only failed to
bury at lsas. half Of It's striking surface in the
corner OF the eye, and only a quarter Of the
bullet landed on IT, The came number OF bull.
Just q little more than adeer's heart would
yttals. AS a shotgun II made a good target at
forty yards. 1t put 1913 No. 4 shot into a 80
inch circle, out of two ounces of the shot. This
Is 2 big charge OF shot, from, an Americans
point OF view, ono and q half ounces being
Tor q l0-gauge gum; but even with an
charge the gun would do good work.
course this gun must be a cylinder bored one,
but with one rifle barrel and one choked barrel
weapon at for any game on the American con-
finent Is supplied. A 12- gauge gun on this plan
would DO as near an all;around gun as any so
FAR made, and would kill a bear, be 1t a grizzly
or 2 CUB. with the GOO. or 500 grain bullet,
Thile the shot would kill a snipe or chipmunk.
But tho gun will not be popular. To stand the
tremendous charges It requires a gun 1T TO
. mans. back, and no one In these days
pf real sport will mako q horse nf himself, even
Tor q gun.