The Complete Shot

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that pattern which was regarded as thick enough to kill game in the cylinder days. That is to say, the latter sort of gun was tried at 40 yards where it spread fairly evenly over a 40 inch circle. But its proper distance was 30 yards, and at that range nothing else at any other distance gives the shooter...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that pattern which was regarded as thick enough to kill game in the cylinder days. That is to say, the latter sort of gun was tried at 40 yards where it spread fairly evenly over a 40 inch circle. But its proper distance was 30 yards, and at that range nothing else at any other distance gives the shooter an equal chance with No. 6 shot. For Still, Or Straight Away, Or Straight Coming Game. The Size Of The Killing Circle Based On A Minimum i 100 Pellets In A Circle Of 30 Inch Diameter Description of gun and sixe of shot.At 20 yards.At 30 yards.At 40 yards.At 50 yards.At 60 yards.Cylinder and No. 6 shot .22 in. A35 in. A40 in. Bnone Even spreading choke hore and No. 6 shot J20 in. A26 in. A30 in. B371 in. C45 in. CCentre clustering choke hore and No. 6 shot J20 in. A25 in. A28 in. B34 in. C40 in. CCylinder and No. 5 shot21 in. A34 in- Anone... Even spreading chokcl hore and No. 5 shot /19 in. A25 in. A30 in. A371 in- BnoneCentral clustering choke hore and No. 5 shot J19 in. A24 in. A27 in. A35 in. BnoneIn the above table each circle of shot has been marked with a reference letter, which is intended to imply? A, that all pellets will have enough strength to kill if they only hit the body, and in direct line for a vital. B, that only the fastest pellets in the load will have enough strength to kill by body shots, and that at least half the pellets will only have enough strength to kill if they hit head, neck, or wing. C, that none of the pellets will kill by body wounds, but only the small number that chance to hit head, neck, or wing. The pellets that come under the description applied to C can be greatly extended beyond the distances named, and at ranges to which it would be foolish to apply the term killing circles. Thus the author has seen a roe deer killed ...