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FOREST AND STREAM 
March i6, 1912 
Kynoch Ball Shot for 12-Bores. 
Under the very appropriate name “Destructor” bul¬ 
lets, Messrs. Kynoch have issued the interesting pro¬ 
jectiles here illustrated. They are intended to be used 
in ordinary’ smooth-bore shotguns, cylinder or choke, as 
the case may be. The regular ball and shotgun has its 
Five preliminary shots at 18yds. (Sin. bull) with Kynoch 
Destructor bullets from true cylinder smooth-bore 
shotgun. (Half-size reproduction.) 
own special field of work, viz., where soft-skinned game 
is the rule rather than the exception. The extra ac¬ 
curacy due to the rifled muzzle, coupled with the high 
power of the cartridges used, made it a special weapon. 
Its prime purpose is the killing of soft-skinned big 
game, though it also possesses considerable utility as a 
shotgun. Its only handicap is its greater weight com¬ 
pared with a shotgun pure and simple. Where, on the 
other hand, birds are the rule and big game the excep¬ 
tion, a shooter would elect to use an ordinary light-weight 
sporting gun, but, on the chance that something in¬ 
teresting might at any time turn up, he would carry in 
a convenient pocket half a dozen rounds of ball car¬ 
tridges. It is only of late years that the loading of 
such ammunition has received special attention from 
manufacturers, and even the columns of this paper con¬ 
tain singularly few references to the subject. The new 
Kynoch bullet possesses several unusual features. It 
consists of a comparatively thin leaden envelope, gen- 
Seven shots with Destructor bullets at 15yds. from right 
barrel of double smooth bore without rest.. Sin. bull. 
(Reproduced half size.) 
erally of spherical form, into the interior of which are 
tightly fitted some sixteen smaller bullets running about 
thirty to the ounce. The total weight of the bullet is 
as nearly as possible 11-lOoz., thus striking a sort of 
mean between 1 l-16oz. and l%oz- Ils weight is there¬ 
fore that of an ordinary sporting charge of shot as used 
in a gun of medium light build. The novel construction 
thus gives the bullet a moderate total weight, which 
compares favorably from a recoil point of view with the 
1 5-160Z. of a solid 12-bore ball. The projecting ribs on 
either side of its “equator” make a true fit with the 
walls of the barrel, and impart a power of accommoda¬ 
tion to guns tight in the bore and an ability to pass the 
choke, if such exists, without offering any undue resist¬ 
ance. 
The accompanying targets are extremely interesting as 
showing what a wonderful degree of accuracy can be 
achieved at a range of 20 yds., which fully covers the 
charging distance of dangerous soft-skinned animals. 
The construction of the bullet naturally lends itself to 
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