any load of 6’s I ever used. Dress a 
dozen rabbits shot in this manner with 
each load and notice how much more 
palatable the carcasses appear that 
have been shot with the finer shot. 
Notice also how many more clean kills 
there will be, too, on the shots on 
which the game is not centered. Fine 
chilled shot kill clean without mutila- 
tion where 6’s or 4’s splinter the leg 
and thigh bones all to pieces. I do 
not like a trap load of 1% ounces for 
any field shooting at all, although it 
is not a bad duck load. I doubt if the 
average man will ever use it for field 
shooting if he has once used 1% ounces 
of 74% in front of 3 or 3% of bulk or 
24 or 25 grains of dense. The recoil 
is much less with the lighter charges, 
the load is faster, it is much pleasanter 
to shoot in light field guns, and to my 
mind is far preferable for every pur- 
pose except trap shooting. 
HERE are a great many other com- 
parisons of shot sizes, loads and 
patterns that could be made that would 
be of interest to the field shot. There 
is the cranky barrel to be considered, 
that is found occasionally and which 
shoots a good deal better with certain 
loads than with others. There is also 
the undoubted advantage of large shot 
for all long shots over 50 or 55 yards, 
beyond which 6’s or anything smaller 
are of little use, irrespeective of their 
muzzle velocity. 
A table of shot sizes or patterns is 
valuable for arithmetical comparison, 
but to the vast majority of shooters it 
is, and never will be anything but, a 
more or less meaningless table of 
figures. 
Tell a man he can put 300 shot in a 
piece of paper at 40 yards and it means 
very little, but let him once shoot a 
pattern containing 300 or more shot 
and he immediately gets the idea that 
this is a very close pattern and that 
his is a full-choke gun. 
Tell a man that you shot a deer 
across a 100-acre field, and unless he 
is a rancher or a surveyor he will prob- 
ably think nothing of it because he 
doesn’t visualize what a 100-acre field 
looks like; but tell him that you shot 
a deer across a field nearly half a mile 
wide and he will almost certainly call 
you a damned liar. He can, and does, 
understand that kind of a shot. 
Visualizing the effects of a change in 
shot sizes is difficult unless one does 
the actual patterning with the two 
sizes. The old turkey-match shooter 
did this and to him a change in shot 
sizes meant a great deal. But the 
modern hunter will never learn the real 
difference until he does a little actual 
pattern shooting to make the table of 
figures represent so many actual shot 
holes. 
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