168 Testing the Value of Guns by Firing ? ler Water. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH RIFLE JSTo. III. 



(Spanish Model Rifle). 

 TABLE No. 6. 







* 



HI IG"T OF WATES 



SHOTS. 



AT A DfSTANCE OF 



BEMAEKS. 



OVEK BEELE. ■ 



1 



3 feet 7% inches 



The board was penetrated 



5% inches. 



2 



3 " 9% " 



" " " " 



" 



3 



3 " 10 



«' " " " 



12 



4 



3 " 10% I' 



Bullet deeply imbedded. 



1. ■< 



5 



3 " 10% " 



Imbedded 



" " 



6 



3 " 10% " 



" 



7 



7 



3 " 10% 



" 



" " 



8 



3 " 11 



% inch indentation 



12 



9 



3 " 11% " 



% " * 



7 



10 



4 - % " 



\z '* " 



'• " 



11 



1 " 1% " 



% " " 



" " 



12 



4 " 2 



Slightly imbedded 



12 



13 



4 " 3% " 



% inch indentation 



" " 



14 



4 " 5 



Slightly imbedded 



" 



15 



4 ■« 5% " 



% inch indentation 



" " 



16 



4 " 5% " 



y s inch indentation 



" " 



17 



5 " 



1-16 inch indentation 



" •' 



18 



5 % " 



1-64 inch indentation 



•• " 



19 1 



5 " 2 



No mark 



" " 



The principal points of the above tables may be presented in 

 a condensed form as follows : 



TABLE NO. 7. 



NO. OF 

 SHOTS. 



EIFLE. 



AT A DISTANCE OF 



IN METERS 



BEMAEKS. 



DEPTH OF 

 WATEE. 



9&10 



11&12 

 19 



TJ. S. Model 



U. S. Army 



Spanish Model 



3 feet 11% inches 



3 " 11% " 



4 " 11% " 

 3 " 10% " 

 3 " 11 



3 " 10 



3 " 10% " 



5 " 2 



1.2019 



1.2074 

 1.5122 

 1 1820 

 1.1894 

 1 1644 

 1.1704 

 1.5374 



Board was penetrated 

 Bullet was imbedded 



12% in 



8 & 9 



10&11 



3 



4 



19 



Board was penetrated 

 Bullet was imbedded 

 Board was penetrated 

 Bullet was imbedded 



12 " 



From this table it would seem that the U. S. model is far 

 superior to the other rifles. A board was penetrated with 

 this rifle at 3 ft. 11^ in., whilst with the U. S. Army rifle 

 the board had to be f inch nearer the rifle, or at 3 ft. 10f-in., 

 before it was penetrated ; and when the Spanish model was 

 used, the board had to be 1^ in. nearer the rifle than in the 

 first case, or at a distance of 3 ft. 10 in. This relation was true 

 for the cartridges used, which were composed of 68 grains 

 of powder and 450 of bullet for the U. S. model, — 90 grains 

 of powder and 542 of bullet for the U. S. Army rifle,— and 72 



