SHOT. 101 



The object of both is to prevent the gun from leading; 

 and, as they can do no harm, I should, if a choice readily 

 offered, prefer using the shot unglazed, or oiled, for 

 the chances of any trifling advantages which may be 

 thereby derived. 



NEW PATENT SHOT. 



Mr. Joseph Manton has obtained a patent for one of 

 the greatest possible improvements in shot, which simply 

 consists in mixing a little quicksilver with the lead. 

 By means of this process the shot is rendered harder 

 and heavier, and wholly divested of the arsenic, which 

 was one of the chief objections to the original patent 

 shot. 



The advantages thus derived are, that shot of a small 

 size, which lies the most compact, and therefore always 

 answers best, in the calibers of small guns, has, from 

 its additional weight, the same force as shot of rather a 

 larger size ; and the game, after being killed with this 

 shot, will keep much longer. Moreover, by the fore- 

 going process, the shot becomes as clean as silver to 

 handle, or carry loose in the pocket ; and its friction, 

 when firing, leads the calibers little or nothing in com- 

 parison to the old shot. 



An advantage, too, above all the others, I should not 

 omit to mention, is, that in this shot the surface of every 

 pellet is precisely alike, owing to a different process of 

 manufacturing ; which could never be the case with 

 shot that had arsenic in its composition. 



This must, of course, tend to make the charge lie 



