12 
HIGH PHEASANTS : 
strength, and fastened together with wire at the corners. They 
are very reHable for the practical testing of a gun's penetration 
when the comparison between the shots fired is taken from the 
same barrel. Though I prefer straw-boards, each separate in a 
long box, for testing the penetration of shot, such a method 
was naturally out of the question in aerial shooting. 
With a view to placing plenty of pellets on the penetration 
pads, a sequence of twelve shots was fired at each of the 
40- and 50-yd. heights without lowering the targets to the 
ground ; and, as the pattern was so scattered, twenty shots at 
each of the three higher altitudes. 
Series III 
Penetration of a gun at horizontal and perpendicular targets, under the 
same conditions in the matter of gun and load as Series I. 
CT,^^+. «,o«T,«.^ Additional sheets Total number of 
Yards. titZtu slightly cracked sheets marked 
through. ^1 indented. by pellets. 
40 
50 
60 
70 
80 
(Horizontal 21 3 24 
20 
(Perpendicular 17 3 
(Horizontal 15 3 18 
(Perpendicular 10 4 14 
f Horizontal 11 4 15 
(Perpendicular 8 4 12 
(Horizontal 8 4 12 
(Perpendicular 6 4 10 
(Horizontal 5 4 9 
(Perpendicular 3 2 5 
By not less than three pellets in each sheet. 
As I fired so many shots at the different heights, I always 
had plenty of pellets, even over a score at 80 yds., in the small 
selected circles to give a fair average record of penetration. At 
60 to 80 yds. no pellet had sufficient striking- velocity to stun 
