In short, there Is no advantage to be gained by the use 

 of freshly loaded cartridges, and there are possible draw- 

 backs attendant on their use. 



As to No. 2. With some very few exceptions, we can 

 only say that there is less justification in this statement 

 than in the preceding one. We have made some thousands 

 of tests and found that about 90% of the guns used by 

 English shooters give the be^ patterns with I jV or 1 oz. 

 of shot, and though, of course, the 1 oz. pattern is not so 

 dense as the 1 i\; oz., there Is nothing to choose between 

 the regularity or evenness of the two charges. 



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