Show VARYING tit rangi RANG A new shell thit that cn can C n be b tiled to tny kny Di one of the mo hobt recent discover discoveries of the atin a makers Is in a method for 12 lucress luc rens lac log the range of any gun from forty yards or bo u to one hundred er or even one bundred hundred ead and fifty yards at will most sportsmen understand that hot by varying the number and position of the wads in a cartridge they can i ause the shet shot to pread spread wide or to shoot cloe close with al most any gun but beyond that few hive have any definite idea of bow it I 1 Is to bo be done an tic ra jagt baell hiu P TUE BUELL ahr BOW now device is known as the shell and con consists sista of a braes brass bill slightly smaller than the boro bore of the gun which ia Is divided into halve halves each half being acin tilted fitted with two mall small flan langei gei each flange hiving having a tiny bole hole in it through whIch a steel wiro wire can bo be passed the shell Is oiled with any sze ze of shot desired and the wire beine passed through the holes the halve are held together malbug a solid ball at the bottom end of the shell a thick felt wad ie Is fitted of the size to fit the bore at of the cun guti the cartridge is loaded with powder in the usual way with the usual wads and on the top of 0 the nell shall is forced down so that tho wad at the bottom of the wire comell next to tho the wads over the powder nil and the brass shell lies snug within the tile cartridge when the gun is fired the wad fits the barrel and prevents any escape of gas and so leaves tho the muzzle behind the shell As it strikes ces the air the wind catches the edges of thet wid which Is slightly larger than t the he circumference of tho the shell and so draws the wire slowly out and sets gets free the two halves of the shell when the ahot spreads as if just biving 9 the muzzle of tho the gun with this equipment quip ment I 1 have lava shot curlews at a distance of yards with an ordinary 12 bore gun of which the average range may be said to bo be fifty to sixty yards by cutting the wiro with a pair of harp nippers being careful not to leavo any ove overhanging edges to catch in the small a flanga 91 boles holes the spread of the shot can be bg made to take place at almost any dis tile bauce as the shorter tho the wiro wire the 11 onner it is withdrawn by tho the force of th the wind on the wad and the ft ot horter the range at which the shot is liberated in case one unexpectedly meets bear or other large ga gamette methe wire cap be bent over the brass shell by the fingers in an instant so that the shot shell becomes a olid solid bullet with a accurate curato ac dead line ranga rana of eighty yards they arc are made to fit four eight ten twelve or sixteen bore guns and are imported from edinburgh |