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THE COMPLETE SHOT 



The only way that this extraordinary result can be 

 explained is this : Mr. Griffith shot at his revolving targets 

 set behind a hole of 4 feet diameter made in a steel plate, 

 and the question arises, Would not any shot pellets that 

 were only travelling at 382 feet a second drop out by the 

 force of gravity, and never pass through the opening at all 

 at the longer ranges ? They would take a considerable 

 fraction of a second to reach the 55 yards range, and pellets 

 would drop a foot by the force of gravity in \ second, therefore 

 some of them would not pass through the 4 feet opening. On 

 this assumption, instead of the 50 yards columns of shot being 

 of the lengths stated, they must be very much longer, with a 

 continuous dropping of the weaker shot all up the range. 



