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July, 1918 
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THE CAPACITY OF 
THE 22 
By CAPT. ROY S. TINNEY 
URING the past few months I have re¬ 
ceived several inquiries as to the maxi¬ 
mum accurate range of the 22 caliber, rim- 
fire, low-power, long-rifle cartridge; tech¬ 
nically known as the 22-5-40. As my testing 
range is not yet fully equipped for research 
work, I can not answer the question as 
fully and accurately as I would like to, but 
I have carried my experiments to a point 
that enables me to give some definite data 
on the subject. Here is my present table 
of average ten-shot groups made outdoors 
from an ordinary bench rest. Note care¬ 
fully the absolute consistency of the diver¬ 
gence up to and including 150 yards. 
25 yards—F2 inch, 
50 yards—I inch, 
75 yards—1^2 inches, 
100 yards—2 inches, 
150 yards—3 inches, 
200 yards—5 inches and 
250 yards—6 inches. 
The English riflemen have made several 
four-inch groups at 200 yards, firing prone 
without a rest in open competition, and to 
show that these were not freak perform¬ 
ances I will give a score made during a 
match by Ernest H. Robinson. 
The firing was done on the standard 
British target having a five-inch bull’s-eye 
which requires a lot better holding than 
the “A” target we use. He fired 140 shots; 
105 were “bulls” and 35 were “fours,” not 
a “three” was made. Result 665 x 700, ex¬ 
actly 95%. The British string consists of 
seven shots and the score contained 4 “pos¬ 
sibles,” 2 strings of 11 consecutive “bulls” 
land 3 straight runs of 10, 9 and 8 “fives” 
respectively. From this you can readily see 
that at 200 yards the little 22 does not have 
to take off its hat to its big brothers. 
Two members of the Essex School of 
Musketry, Richard J. Young and John 
Rebhan, have each made 228 x 250 on the 
German Ring Target at 200 yards, from 
the standing off-hand position. This means 
an average deviation of only 2^ inches 
from the center of the bull’s-eye, equal to 
the firing done from the bench rest. Law¬ 
rence Young made a 226 with his repeater 
equipped with hunting sights and a 227 
with his father’s Ballard rifle. 
Firing prone with a parapet rest, I have 
made ten-shot “possibles” on the eight-inch 
bull of the Army’s “A” target at 200 yards 
and 47 and 48 at 300 yards. This is in my 
opinion the extreme accurate range of the 
cartridge. 
THUS DO WE MOVE FORWARD 
EVER discard a thing merely because 
it is old and do not permit tht glamor 
of novelty to conceal a latent defect. The 
fact that an arm has rendered good service 
for a long term of years proves conclu¬ 
sively that it possesses certain valuable 
qualities that can not be denied, qualities 
that made it serviceable and successful in 
spite of its defects; and when you attempt 
to correct these defects, be very carefu 
that while so doing you do not injure o. 
remove the basic principle that made the 
arm a useful and dependable implement. 
On the other hand, beware of that most 
human of all failings: the tendency to be¬ 
come “kinder sot in your ways.” Nothing 
but eternal activity of mind and continued 
study will prevent a man from unconscious¬ 
ly sliding into the rut of the hide-bound 
conservative, one who complacently folds 
his hands and says, “Why bother with this 
new-fangled idea? The old gun can’t be 
beaten or improved upon. It is perfect, 
therefore let it alone.” This attitude 
sounds the death knell of all progress. 
Nothing conceived by the human mind and 
executed by the hand of man can be per¬ 
fect; perfection is the great unattainable 
toward which all successful men work. 
They can never achieve their objective, but 
their persistent and intelligent effort to do 
so is what makes them a success. 
Another pest is the vocal inventor, the 
man who builds ballistic wonders from the 
stuff o’ dreams. This chap will present a 
most interesting and novel theory, but, 
upon being questioned, is forced to admit 
that his workshop is an air castle and his 
product as intangible as the idea upon 
which it is based. 
Always listen to what the other man has 
to say, you may learn something. If he 
has a new shooting iron study it carefully 
and then test it out with patient thorough¬ 
ness and great care, but above all be care¬ 
ful. An untried gun is like an outlaw mus¬ 
tang, you never know just what it is liable 
to do next and one accident is frequently 
sufficient to send the experimenter to that 
far country where weapons of all kinds are 
unknown and unnecessary. A breech block 
driven through the face terminates one’s 
career in a sudden and unpleasant manner. 
Once upon a time we took some things for 
granted and, by a miracle of good luck, 
escaped with wounds that did not prove 
fatal. Now we quote the chief and say, 
“Some folks are from Missouri and have 
to be shown, but I’m from Wisconsin and 
I’ve got to hold it in my hand.” 
HI-VELOCITY AND HI-POWER 
A RECENT letter from C. M. Tongster 
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, contains these 
two questions: 
What is the point blank range of the 
30-40 Krag? 
There is no such thing as “point blank” 
range; the law of gravity is inexorable. 
A rifle bullet starts downward the instant 
it leaves the muzzle and never follows an 
imaginary line extended from the axis of 
the bore. The trajectory of the 30-40 
Krag is about 1% inches at 100 yards and 
about 6 inches at 200 yards, so up to that 
distance no elevation of the rear sight is 
necessary when hunting. 
Is the 22 Hi-power considered plenty big 
for such animals as moose and elk? 
No, it is not. Moose and elk have been 
