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sportsman anxious to be informed and posted up in 

 many matters connected with the science of shot-gunnery 

 will here find an astonishing variety of subjects treated 

 in thoroughly practical fashion, in a manner necessarily 

 technical, yet not too severely so ; and what is much to 

 the point, studied with a view to extract from them all 

 that may forward or conserve his interests. 



Another technical and highly instructive publication 

 that may prove greatly helpful to those who may wish 

 to save themselves much labour in solving many of the 

 problems and puzzles that beset the path of the novice 

 in the art of gun-testing at the target is an instructive 

 pamphlet by Mr. R. W. S. Griffith the reproduction of 

 a lecture delivered by him on April 26, 1897, before 

 the Gun-makers' Association in the Hall of the Royal 

 United Service Institution, Whitehall, S.W., at which 

 lecture, by the way, I had the good fortune to be 

 present. Mr. Griffith, as some of my readers, doubtless, 

 are aware, is superintendent of the Schultze Gunpowder 

 Company's manufactory in the New Forest, and by 

 virtue of his numberless target experiments with the 

 shot-gun, his statements relative to the shooting powers 

 of that particular class of arm must be looked upon 

 as exceptionally valuable. By following the expert 

 evidence adduced by the editors of The Field and by 

 Mr. Griffith, the shooting tyro will be enabled to avoid 

 many pitfalls and lessen his labours in gun-testing 

 enormously by discarding all thought of many unpro- 

 fitable experiments whose results are already a foregone 

 conclusion. 



To many ardent gunners there is a certain fascination 

 in determining as to the behaviour of a charge of small 

 shot on its flight, as evidenced by the disposition of the 



