Show how fast shot travels when standing within a few yards ot of a guns muzzle at the time of discharge P a perk person 0 would be amazingly astonished werd wera he only able to see the shot go whizzing by experiments in instantaneous photo photography graphy prove that the shot not only spread out a as s the fly but they string out one behind another at a much t greater distance than they spread I 1 thus with a cylinder gun when the shot of a charge reaches a target that Is 40 yards away the last shot is lagging full ten yil yards cliot ds behind even a gun shot will lag behind eight yards in 40 this accounts for the wide swath that is mowed in a flock of ducks ow on which a charge ot of shot falls just right about 5 per cent only of the shot according to the most reliable deductions from experiments arrive simultaneously at the target aimed at the others lagging in the ratio named above |