The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26

sitting on a saddle on one leg of a tri- pod, with his finger pressing trigger of a rifle that pourS out a stream of death-dealing bullets at the rate of 600 in one minute or eleven shots every sec ond This is what can be done with the new gun and with an accuracy that would make an ordinary sharpshooter feel enviouS.
 Howard Carr, who is an old resident of this city, has been at work on this new creation for some time and now he feels that he has combined in one ma chine a gun that will hold it's own with the best in the world. It is only a ques- tion of adjusting the strength of the parts to apply the action to large cali bers.
 Simplicity, rapidity and accuracy are the principal features of the weapon, to say nothing of it's lightness, for when fully rigged it weighs just 201A pounds, or about the weight of a soldiers mus ket, bayonet and belt full of cartridges, etc. The principle on which it operates, as it's name automatic" implies, is that it requires no effort of the marksman to manipulate It shoots the same am- munition as that now in use by the United States Government the 30-40 Krag- -Jorgensen cartridge, with the steel-jacket bullet. The magazine Is entirely detached from the gun, and when emptied can be replace1 and fir ing resumed in ten seconds. It looks like the drum of a banjo minus the arm. Into this receptacle, which is made of tin, BIO cartridges are placed, and the weight of a filled ma gazine is about 25 pounds. The gun itself is an ordinary Krag-JorgenSen barrel automatic breech action and pistol grip. It can be mounted in any manner, on the side of patrol wagon, bicycle, tripod or on board of a boat as may be required.
 The exhibition began first with the single shot action. The gun was set up in the sand on the beach and trained out on the bay for safety. Every shot threw into the air a spray of water like the spouting of a whale, while the guid- ing hand on the lever moved up and down, right and left, causing the bull lets to strike the water over any quarter of the compass and from 30 to 1000 yards away. The steady spiteful bark of the rifle was followed by perpen- dicular spray of water out on the bay. The single shot test for accuracy was surprising, easily hitting any object aimed at. It was next shown how far the piece would carry. A slight eleva- tion was given to the gun and the trig- ger pulled. The eye could not see where the bullet struck. but with the aid of a pair of field glasses a bouquet like spray was discerned away up the bay in the direction of Red Rock The bull let must have struck nearly two miles from the shooting point. The interval between the report of the gun and the striking of the bullet was very short but what could be expected when the | of 1,1,l1 % rate of 2000 feet per second
 The most interesting feature of the exhibition was the operation of the au- tomatic action. A close observer would have noticed that the operator gave the little disk back of the trigger a half turn and then pressed the trigger, re- taining it in a pulled position. The sound of the reports or more properly | speaking, the continuous report Is hard | to describe. It was a wave of intense sound with corrugated edges.
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