Popular Science Monthly 



753 



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A Practical Shotgun Sight for 

 the Trap -Shooter 



MOST shotgun sights are a delu- 

 sion and a snare, for the reason 

 that in shooting at a flying object, 

 there is neither time nor tendency on 

 the part of the shooter to see anything 

 but the mark and a flash of the gun. 

 There is no analog\- between the shot- 

 gun and the rifle. Most inventors of 

 shotgun sights fail to realize that. 



However, any one sight that makes 

 the muzzle of the gun more easily 

 caught in the quick 

 glimpse from gun to bird, 

 is worth while. Many 

 experienced sportsmen 

 use a large and plain 

 ivory bead at the muzzle, 

 the better to define the muz- 

 zle on the mark in the rapid 

 process of alining the barrel. 

 A smaller ivory bead placed 

 back along the rib and acting 

 as rear sight is a good thing 

 to check up one's "holding," 

 in practice with the empty gun; but 

 never seen in actual shooting at 

 moving marks. 



A. G. Flickinger, a Pacific Coast man 

 with much trap-shooting experience, has 

 patented and tried out in actual shooting, 

 a front sight for single-barrel shotguns 

 of repeating and other varieties. It 

 is a practical shotgun front-sight, 

 consisting of a ring to slip over the 

 muzzle, with a bayonet form of 

 catch to engage in the factor^' 

 brass-bead front-sight. 



This steel ring carries on 

 it a ring-shaped bead of 

 ivory or some such white 

 colored material, easily 

 and quickly picked up by 

 the eye, and more easily 

 seen than even the largest 

 of the ordinary ivory 

 beads mounted on the 

 barrel rib at the muzzle. 



The inventor of the de- 

 vice cla'ms that the amateur 

 using it will find his mark- 

 manship so much improved 

 that very soon he will be 

 justified in considering him- 

 self eligible to the title of ex- 

 pert shot in the ranks of the 

 experienced trap-shooters. 



The balky horse is 

 shocked in t±ie flanks 

 to spvir him on. A 

 refusal to turn when 

 desired is met by a 

 shock on the head 



Just 



The steel ring sight with the 

 bead of ivory or porcelain 

 is slipped over the muzzle 



Cure a Balky Horse 

 Press a Button 



ROM out of the West comes 

 the electric tamer of balky 

 and runaway horses. Press a 

 button and a fractious horse is 

 brought to a standstill. 



The essentials are a small shocking-coil 

 and its batter^'. These may be carried 

 under the carriage seat or in a belt strapped 

 on the body of the driver. Electric wires 

 run from the shocking-coil to four strap- 

 ivonvREAo keys on the har- 

 i^^ness reins. Other 

 wires lead from 

 these ke\s to vari- 

 "^2u°cF^ous points on the 

 '^ horse's body. 



If the horse gets 

 balky and refuses 

 to move, key num- 

 ber one is pressed. 

 The two wires which lead 

 from this key run to 

 opposite points on the 

 horse's flank. He gets 

 an electric shock which 

 will certainly start him. 

 If he should refuse to 

 turn when desired, one of 

 two keys are closed to 

 give him a shock on the 

 proper side of his head. 

 Should he start running away, 

 the last key will stop him. 

 Wires are run from this key 

 to a belt fastened around the 

 top of the left foreleg. 



