December, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
717 
the entire pattern and almost every pat¬ 
tern we recorded had the general shape 
of a vertical ellipse with a proportion of 
3 by 4, but I am inclined to believe this 
was due to an individual peculiarity of 
the gun I was using and does not hold 
true of the weapon as a type: therefore, 
in digesting my field notes I disregarded 
the elliptical outline and used the old 
standard circle to indicate the average 
spread of the charge at the various dis¬ 
tances. And before I give the results of 
the firing I want to state most emphatically 
that what follows cannot be classed as a 
full record of the capabilities of the 
weapon. The test was neither complete or 
exhaustive, we simply did the best we 
could with improvised equipment and a 
limited amount of time and ammunition, 
thereby obtaining some interesting data 
sufficient to give a fairly accurate idea of 
what can be expected when using the 
piece. But one thing was demonstrated 
beyond all argument—as a pacifier of war- 
loving Germans this little shooting iron 
stands unchallenged in a class by itself. 
As we are only interested in results I wil 1 
not burden you with my field notes which 
are nothing but a prosaic shot-by-shot 
record and have digested the data obtained 
into two graphic tables. 
The Danger Zone 
H ERE is an excellent and easily re¬ 
membered rule: The spread of the 
charge is one inch for each yard of 
the range. At io yards I obtained an 
average pattern io inches in diameter; at 
20 yards, 20 inches; 30 yards, 30 inches, 
and so on, consistently right back to the 
hundred-yard line. In not a single in¬ 
stance did the target escape perforation 
and every now and then we would obtain 
patterns that knocked all our calculations 
into a cocked hat. Here is an instance: 
A gray-clad cadet came over and asked to 
look at the gun so I suggested he fire a 
shot or two; that youngster dropped down 
on his tummy and tucked every one of 
those nine “00” buckshot inside the silhou¬ 
ette at seventy yards, and he held right on 
the Hun’s solar plexus, making no allow¬ 
ance whatever for trajectory. The maxi¬ 
mum spread of the charge was 46j4 inches 
and every hole was covered by a rectangle 
1 7Y1 by 46 inches. His other shots simply 
verified the previous firing. This aptly il¬ 
lustrates a valuable quality possessed ■ by 
this gun. While it will every now and 
then make exceptionally fine groups at long 
ranges, the pattern never “blew up”; the 
arm can always be relied upon to deliver 
enough shot to down your man, and judg¬ 
ing from the way those buck ripped up 
the “two-by-fours” supporting the target 
frame, one buckshot is plenty. 
Hits and Holding 
I WAS very much surprised to find that no 
allowance for trajectory was necessary. 
From ten yards to a hundred that little 
twenty-inch barrel delivered its pattern to 
the point aimed at—just hold right and a 
hit was certain. This is accounted for by 
the fact that at all ranges up to and in¬ 
cluding 40 yards the pattern is above the 
line of sight; that is, by holding on a man’s 
belt buckle you place the nine buck, or 
most of them, in his body and face, while 
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