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The New Automatic Shot Gun 



In the brief mention to which we are restricted 

 at this time, we can not do this subject full justice, 

 so merely give an illustration of the new Trap gun 

 and another of the plain gun taken down for car- 

 rying. This gun is the invention of John M. 

 Browning, who also invented nine of the different 

 model rifles and guns made by the ll'hnhester 

 Co /the three automatic pistols and the machine 

 gun manufactured by the Colt Co.; and the Brown- 

 ing automatic pistol, made by the Fabrique Na- 

 tionale de Guerre at Liege, Belgium. The latter 

 firm is manufacturing the new Automatic shot gun, 

 and as it also makes the Mauser rifle, and the ma- 

 terial of both is similar, the strength of the parts 

 and the workmanship of the new gun need no fur- 

 ther comment. No castings are used in the auto 

 matic shot gun. The magazine is of cold drawn 

 seamless steel tubing, and the principal parts are 

 drop forged steel, while the barrels are of Cockerill 

 steel, which in the Mauser rifles, withstands pres- 

 sures several times as great as in this automatic 

 fun. Every one of these guns is proved at the 

 Belgian government proofhouse. Some of the 

 claims for the new gun follow: It is haunn< \ 

 has automatic ejector, single trigger, is 

 peater and the slighter recoil does not disturb 

 the shooters position, so that a second or thin! 

 shot may be fired quickly and with accuracy. The 

 The gun acts in this wise: At the discharge, the 

 barrel and breech-bolt recoil, locked together, to 

 the limit of their rearward movement, compressing 

 the recoil and action springs, and cocking the ham- 

 mer, at which point the carrier dog engages the 

 operating slide. The recoil spring now moves the 

 barrel forward, unlocking and opening the breech 

 and ejecting the empty shell. The carrier latch is 

 tripped by a cartridge from the magazine, which is 

 then inserted in the chamber, the breech is closed 



