July, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
373 
SHOT GUN 
EVOLUTION 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 354) 
The charge of condensed powder, say 
Ballistite, requisite to give the desired 
velocity, the necessary wads, and a 
charge of one ounce of shot will, in .69 
calibre, admit of a cartridge less than 
2 inches long by .7 inches in diameter, 
that is to say, some 20 per cent shorter 
powder to those adapted to utilizing the 
possibilities of smokeless powders. 
Such a cartridge will not only be more 
economical in cost, but what is of much 
greater importance, lends itself to the 
construction of a very much handier and 
lighter gun, in which the repeating me- 
chanism need no longer be the source of 
clumsiness and general inconvenience. 
A gun to handle a cartridge of these 
dimensions can be made with a box mag- 
azine by slightly modifying several ex- 
isting rifle actions, and need not weigh 
more than 614 pounds. 
It is not intended to suggest that one 
ounce of shot constitutes as powerful a 
load as l‘/4 ounces, but if one ounce 
is sufficient for general sporting purposes 
and a handier and more convenient gun 
is our primary object, a one-ounce charge, 
in the cartridge described, renders the 
construction of such a gun possible. 
In the days when gun and cartridge 
were separate industries the production 
of a cartridge for a non-existent gun or 
‘vice versa, did not present an attractive 
commercial proposition, but today, with 
these functions combined in several Arms, 
this objection has lost force. 
The firm which today produces a gun 
and cartridge having greater shooting 
power, bulk for bulk and weight for 
weight than any other gun and cartridge, 
will possess a novelty having very at- 
tractive selling prospects; moreover, it 
will have taken the first step in the logi- 
cal development of the shotgun by mak- 
ing the first radical departure from 
stabilized dimensions designed for black 
powder to those adapted to utilizing the 
possibilities of smokeless powders. 
One example in this direction and the 
field will be open for further develop- 
ment of smokeless powders. Relieved 
from the thraldom of confinement to 
chambers of dimensions never designed 
for it, smokeless powder makers will be 
free to delve in fields in which may be 
discovered possibilities yet undreamed of. 
WATSON THE 
OUTLAW 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 353) 
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There are still, in that Everglade coun- 
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there, who might do murder if they were 
questioned too closely as to their past 
lives. I would not hesitate to hire one 
of them as a guide and go any place with 
him, for I w’ould not question any one 
down there now. I know they are sus- 
picious, but when they know you are not 
spying on them they will stick to you. 
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