The sun., 1896-10-11
whom the slIde on the modern hammerloss run

whom the slide on the modern hammerloss gun
is pushed up to safety. And this was in 1924!
the trigger guard runsa lever fastened BY a
screw at the back. This lever is also a sprinG,
Is held fast to the trigger guard by little sot-
ecrew. lake out that sore W and the barrels
are locked to safety. When the gun is taken
up 70 shoot. the grip Of the mans hand on the
and the run can be fred
gun-as distinguished from cheap gun there
is q very good model costing sl5. The bar.
rels are Of rollcd steel. thirty inches long, ard
tho weight Is n trifte over seven pounds. IL
carries Ave cartridges, four in the u,asazne
and one in the barrel. At the Immediate com.
cd by a simple aud direct forearm movement
below tho barrel and IL is locked by the slid
ing motion and can only be pmnlHcked IN BY push.
by the hammer @ or finger. M When the the hsmn al S er
Is down the slide unlocks and opens the breach
block. ejects the cartridge or she'll and replace,
1t with n fresh one. The gun is perfectly safe
and practically cannot be fired by accident. The
yriteE rite , has seen seen one from which more than
nrst-class condition, Tho regular charge is
'lS drains Of f. F. G. powder. one card and
ounces Of No. 3 shot and one card wnd on the
shot. This will give pattern Of 325 pellets
In thirty.inch ring at forty yards, with good
There is still another device for a shot spread
sr; buy eit"oush; It may be new to to- the present t
Eley shot cartridge of forty years gone, ty
turned around to spread tho shot instead of
condensing II. Tho inventor isa Thornton,
X. L.. IL. an, and he claims great things for 1t.
The new device consists of piece of wire bent
like a corkecrew with the ends turned in to
prevent scratching tho barrel. 1t lie OF a suita-
BILE length to 1T into an ounce Of shot In a ! 2
or 10 gauge cartridge, and small enough in
diameter to At into a 16-gauge gun. Tho idea
is that the corkscrew shape causes IL TO whirl
around on leaving the gun, and thus spread tho
shot evenly over a larger pattern when fred
from a choke bcre II is also claimed that
used in cylinder-bore gun. 1t will SO even up
the charge ms to practically condense IT. Its
use also prevents leading or powder caking
in tho choke Tho great trouble with all
these spreading devices is that tho spread Is Sc.
cured at the expense of regularity OF pattern.
and 10 sometimes so irregular that even duck
will get through tho patches without injury:
They also induce wandering shot" and
that an English gunner was hit in the neck by
taken course at least five rods to the side of
The direction taken by the rest of the charge.
In powders there is but little change. but n
demand Is reported for a more heavily con-
densed powder for shotguns, to be used with
tho cone-base cases. and 10 produce a greater
initiel velocity. II would seem that this
would be moro valuable to the rifle than to the
shotgun. new idea for carving cartridges
10 a species Of long pocket adapted to fastcn
over the wastcoat so that the lower end is
about level with the bottom. This ie filled
with cartridges. and the lower ono Is caught in
q spring device which holds II firmly until
Rrasped with the finger and thumb, when it is
released and the next one is dropepd down.