. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 28 Jte breeder mid j$pjwtematt. Jan 12 pleased with my day's work; cylinder bore makmg the ten shots in IU inches, and old choky with 10*. Will say that the last ten shots with the cylinder bore I had one jump shot that measured 2i inchesâcaused by a defective patch, and it bains the last one that I had of the siae I had been using, it was Hobson's choice with me, and the jump was as I pre- dicted to my assistant before the shot was fired. It will be seen that the result of these two strings are un- precedented in the history of telescopic target practice. True
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 28 Jte breeder mid j$pjwtematt. Jan 12 pleased with my day's work; cylinder bore makmg the ten shots in IU inches, and old choky with 10*. Will say that the last ten shots with the cylinder bore I had one jump shot that measured 2i inchesâcaused by a defective patch, and it bains the last one that I had of the siae I had been using, it was Hobson's choice with me, and the jump was as I pre- dicted to my assistant before the shot was fired. It will be seen that the result of these two strings are un- precedented in the history of telescopic target practice. True, they were not public matches, but were made with all the care that could be given in order to obtain the best possible performance from guns. When we consider the distance 220 yards and fully comprehend that only a little over three quarters of an inch is given to each shot from center of ball hole to center of bull's-eye, a man who is skilled m the theory and science of gunnery must say that any perform- ance like the above is actually marvellous. lhe aggregate of the 100 shots by the cylinder bore is 181J inches-â that of choke bore 86 6-8 inchesâthe cylinder winning by only 5J inches, no great victory, but it took the persimmon. In all of my practice in this manner of target practice, I have never excelled the above targets but once, and that once, strange to say, was done with a ten-pound rifle. I have given and dilated upon the above soores, Mr. Editor, to show the merits and demerits of the two methods of rifling a gun, and not as a blast from my trumpet-horn to bring up the echoes of the past, that they may reverberate and bring back pleasant recollections of the rifle in by-gone days. But, be- fore I close these articles I shall be under the painful neces- sity of asking the patrons of the Breeder and Sportsman to indulge me, and not think me egotistical in referring to some few things that I have done in the manipulation of the rifle, which have shortened my strin
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