SHOT-GUN PATTERNS 



55 



BB. SHOT ; 80 YARDS. 



LEFT BARREL. RIGHT BARREL. 



40" circle 72" circle 40" circle 72" circle 



34 70 29 



30 79* 32 



29 76 28 



33 70 3 6 



27 



Averages 30 



28 



73 3 



Pattern represented by Fig. 7. 



BB. SHOT; 40 YARDS. 



64 



72 

 66 



77 

 75 



70 



FIG. 5. 



I should have liked to have obtained a more extended 

 series of photographs of these shot patterns, but on the 

 day of trial the weather was so wet and unsuitable that 

 it was with the utmost difficulty that the accompanying 

 series could be procured. As a matter of fact, the seven 

 diagrams here given were all that could be obtained, 

 and it is therefore easy to imagine that had the day been 



