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Show How Fast Shot Travels. AVhen standing within a few yards of a gun's muzzle at the time of discharge, dis-charge, a person would be amazingly astonished were he only -able to see the shot go whizzing by. Experiments in instantaneous photography prove that the shot not only spread - out, cometlike, as they fly, hut they string out, one behind another at a much greater distance than they spread. Thus, with a cylinder gun, when the shot of a charge reaches a target that is 40 yards away, the last shot is lagging lag-ging full ten yards behind. Even a chokebore gun shot will lag behind eight yards in 40. This accounts for the wide swath that is mowed in a flock of ducks on which a charge 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. j |