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with the inner, those on one side with those of the 

 other, had acted upon them after they had left the 

 gun, and, in the case of the latter two, between the 

 distances of 12 and 40 yards. Was it not resistance 



TO ROTATION ? 



That the reader may have a means of comparing his 

 gun for shooting qualities with some of the best true 

 chokes, I append the following record of actual pat- 

 terns : 



