Show REPORT ON THE NEW defects of the ardys new weapon WHAT THE CRACK SHOTS SAY lack of wind gauge find and drift cor the chief fault at tho the target weak points lu in tho the mcchan mechanism pointed out inflicts a horrible wound happenings at fort douglas fort douglas utah jan 4 C ever since th introduction of the new magazine rifle in the army its merits an und d demerits have becan sub subjects ejects at 0 general af pf discussion opinions differ greatly in regard reffard to it some very strongly condemn it as inaccurate while others othora cannot speak too highly in favor of it the report of the inspector ot of small amis alms practice 0 of tho the department of colliado Coloia Col do for the target year of 1895 odys 81 ys compared with the record ot of known distance firing arni at same banges for lot lawt your year th alf results bhoj A 0 uniform loss tn in the average per ent of scores mado made by all practicing hen an fn t ihla depitt ment during the past beas tho the loss load in m joer cent being 83 whon it 1 t considered that hat t the past season was the first with kith the new fill alth that no practice was waa held and also that the now new aim tins hus no tind cauko or drill correction excepting at ir the M W and IM 1000 yard ranges the small loss lit in average pir per cent ot at the iho department speak volumes for the excellent of tho the mm men of this thia command the report then gives this brief summary or of the defects reported by the several company com commanders mandels TUE THE PRINCIPAL DEFECTS the principal defects reported are that beyond range it high and to the elie left tho ilia bullet la is lastly easily al ac elected by the wind tho the him vary after tho jalil or sixth hot when hen ilia barrel bee 0 mes heated thu the mahl of the bolt lit is too SOL soil causing the bolt to jam when ben lc it cannot ho be opened without cocking tho the alece lleco and oiling offing the bolt the ning magazine azine spring becomes weak and will if elv ke keep life gate shut the magazine cutoff cut ott Is 4 easily pulled out anil and lost spindles on babets Y look lock and hinge bar to magazine axe arc lit caking and the head of tile tho ramrod it 14 too larke large for cleaning purposes the greatest lault fault found with the now new aun gu 11 however howo vcr is tho ilia absence or of tho tho tand galeo and automatic auton fatic drift correction on tho rear sight OPINIONS or OF TIM THE EXPERTS ant ot of the sixteenth nth ln n thail fanniy Y aho ho 1 11 anion among tile the best shots I 1 la n th department e art ent a naya 9 1 I 1 consider the new flow r t to bo be far butle or to tho the of old p ng ficia sergeant dails avis and other c crack ck hot a into subs biall elie aimel a aliey hey fill all say pay however hoo vcr that tho ilia only serious d e aio a 1 a in tho softness lt n us of oc tho the metal otal in the bolt oft and that there Is no correction for drill drift in the iho rear eight there is in a great deal of talk about the humano humane results of tho the small caliber bullet many claim that the bullet will mako a small clean cut hole which will III wol wound ind without killing on oil this thia subject major MajorA A C ulhard united states stales arm army alao a report to tho the journal of tile tho american I 1 medical led ical association from which the following extracts are arc taken the shooting through the head or of a military convict attempting to t from n sentinel a at t this post 1 fort I orl escaja shurldin with fth the kaig jorgensen rifle representing the first instance in iho if country of lla its effects on the skull 0 of tho th living subject has haa led to vailous accounts in tho the secular press 0 in order to prevent erroneous deductions tio n 9 from neis newspaper paper reports I 1 have bave deemed proper to publish this ac acs C count 0 U D dr at girard garard states that ho saw the ilia man a lew few minutes after ho he was mas shot andl and after IL a of tho the wound says after P 4 through tho the mans skull the hall 1 all vent to n ing hirough a treo tree eight inches in diameter and and burled leolf in tho the ground two feet tile tho man died in halt half an hour 0 tile integument was carefully caro tully dag acied and tile the bono ot of tho the to top p of tho the found extensively fractured tho the doctor further states staka a death was wa evidently caused by bil concu islon as no ital ilal parts pans of tho ilia brain werft injured and E the he hemorrhage was not consi considerable dorable now ns AS to the effect of tho the bullet tho the so called humano humane result of this small caliber bullet not much lawr larger than a pencil may bo be disposed of at once lu ILE the nega t ive it Is evident from dr girards report rt that hut not only Is tile thu bullet dangerous for or ts power but also alao that the writ leh velocity with which the bullet moves produced such violent concussion it at tho the point of impact that death would probably ly ensue e even v en though tho the bullet struck no ital p parts arts of the living subject ab |