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SHOT. 



For general use, I prefer No. 5, as it will answer every pur- 

 pose, snipe shooting excepted, for which I should use much 

 smaller. No. 6 or 7 will be found large enough for the early 

 part of the partridge season ; but I cannot agree with General 

 Hanger, that No. 2 is decidedly preferable for all occasions, and 

 from one end of the season to the other. Upon trial, I found 

 that 1 could scarcely average three shots in a card (four inches 

 by three) at the distance of thirty- two yards, with No. 2. With 

 No. 5, I averaged 8 ; and the latter, too, were driven with a 

 force more than sufficient for the purpose. Upon increasing 

 the distance to forty-one yards, I could seldom put in more than 

 one pellet of No. 2 ; No. 5, at the same distance, averaged four ; 

 No. 6 averaged five. 



FORCE OF PERCUSSION PRIMING 



COMPARED WITH GUNPOWDER. 



At the distance of thirty yards, the percussion gnn threw the 

 shot round and well, and perforated, completely, twenty nine 

 sheets of strong writing paper, with shot, No. 5 : with com- 

 mon priming and patent breech, nineteen sheets were perforated. 

 When shot, No. 2 was used, it perforated two or three sheets 

 more than No. 5, and tore the paper in a slug-like manner. 

 See note, page 192, &c. 



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