96 SHOT. 



All those who prefer No. 4, or 3, in common sized 

 guns, contend, that as large shot will kill at a long 

 distance, it must kill at a short one. Kill it may 

 when it hits; but is it always so sure of Chitting? 

 And, if it does take a bird, is not a vital part more 

 likely to escape from three or four straggling pellets, 

 than from ten or a dozen grains, which are regularly 

 distributed in the same space ? Why does large shot 

 in too small a caliber fly not only thinner, but in a 

 wider circle? Because the larger the grains, the 

 more, by rotary motion, they rebound away from 

 each other. 



The annexed schedule is about the usual weight 

 of shot. 



SCHEDULE OF SHOT, 



According to labelled samples, which were sent me 

 from Messrs. Walker, Maltby, and Co., Patent Shot 

 Tower, Lambeth. The firm is now Messrs. Walker, 

 Parker, and Co., as Mr. Maltby is now established in 

 the shot business by himself. 



MOULD SHOT. 



No. of pellets 



to 1 oz. 

 LG 5i 



MG . . . (hardly) 9 



SG . . . .11 



SSG . . . .15* 



SSSG . . . .17 



* Best made, and by far the most useful of all mould shot. 



