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him) new plan, and in December of that year was 

 able to announce to the shooting piibUc, through the 

 columns of the London Field, his ability to make guns 

 that would average 210 to 240 pellets of No. 6 shot 

 in a 30-inch circle, at 40 yards, and, moreover, to 

 back up his assertions, as he was very soon called 

 upon to do. This announcement of Mr. Greener's 

 called forth a Uvely correspondence and discussion in 

 the columns of the Field, some makers declaring such 

 shooting to be impossible, and others claiming to 

 know all about how to acquire it, but pronouncing it 

 undesirable, until the proprietors of the paper deter- 

 mined to institute a trial to settle the matter and de- 

 cide which of the numerous makers really did best 

 understand the new system, and what its merits ac- 

 tually were. 



In this trial, which took place during the latter part 

 of April and first of May, 1875, Mr. Greener won a 

 signal victory over all competitors, coming out first in 

 the classes for 12 and 20 bores, and first, second, and 

 third with the 8 and 10 gauges. Of the various guns 

 competing, he gives it as his opinion in the work 

 above referred to, that-most of them were bored upon 

 the recess or jug-bore plan, and it is a matter of fact 

 that ail the first shipments of guns sent to this country 



