August, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
375 
PROGRESS AND 
THE SHOTGUN 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 357) 
makes effective use of not more than 
80% of the shot, charge, and very few, 
as a matter of fact, utilize even 70%. 
S OME investigations made by the 
writer about ten years ago, which 
involved firing thousands of shots 
into large slabs of soap, and over 
water, in which a battery of cameras 
was used' to obtain permanent picturi- 
zation of the flight of the charge, 
proved that the wild dispersion which 
accounts for the entire loss of 10% 
of the charge is apparent right at 
the muzzle, and patterns made at 3 
feet and 6 feet confirm this. It is 
not, however, so certain that the cause 
arises at the muzzle, because it is 
more pronounced in a perfect cylinder 
than in a choke bore. As a similar 
charge fired from a brass shell in a 
properly designed chamber with a 
proper lead which permits the felt wad 
to properly seal the lead between the 
cartridge mouth and the bore, shows 
much less scatteration at the muzzle, 
it is more than possible that this 
trouble commences at the chamber and 
is due to the impossibility of mak- 
ing a gas-tight connection between the 
chamber and bore so long as a thick 
pajier shell is used in a chamber of 
the present dimensions. 
Another noticeable feature was the 
entire lack of uniformity in patterns. 
No two are alike, and despite the ut- 
most uniformity in cartridges it is 
rare that a dozen can be fired with- 
out at least one giving an abnormally 
ragged pattern, which, though it may 
still have enough central density to 
enable an expert trap shooter to score 
a kill, is much too ragged to ensure 
a hit when fired by a sportsman who 
wants more than a 15-inch circle to 
embrace his shooting errors. 
And if freedom to adopt a metal 
shell and re-design the chamber were 
accorded, it is certain that an entirely 
new chain of developments would fol- 
low which might eventually result in 
a more logical method of boring, and 
a far more regular and even distri- 
bution of the pellets over the pattern, 
but until such freedom is accorded our 
hands are tied and no material im- 
provement is conceivable. 
The “black powder” gun has in fact 
Teached finality, improvement can only 
he hoped for in a “smokeless powder” 
gun, and when we have this we can 
also look for improvement in smoke- 
less powders, thereby opening the way 
to developments of which the end can- 
not be forseen. 
In such circumstances there is rea- 
son to hope that we might shoot one 
and a half ounces of shot from a gun 
and cartridge no bigger or less handy 
than the present 12 bore, and with no 
more recoil; we may then get the same 
or better density of pattern with pel- 
lets a size or two larger, and so con- 
siderably enhance range and penetra- 
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