Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-05-03 | Page 2 | Drawbacks to Magazine Guns

Drawbacks lo Magazine Guns I am glad to see that the War department depart-ment has anally decided not to order ourS our-S Jviag rifle ammunition put iu > In clips like the Mauser cartridges rom irked an exvolunteer officer the Idea v je that the clips would omble a soldier lo load 1 his magazine a trille quicker than by putting put-ting in the cartridge uiie at a thin but as a matter of fat the gun K JS i j fast ns U i ls In the hu of iicili it > a almost impossible to prevent troops ir u wasting ammunition when the v lj 0 magazine rifles hi their hand Th im j > ulL to blzc nv y at tup ap > cd is i K C to irresistible es cUMy whi n jllnw I I l M u little s uril ami thai of touic means the worse kind of ruark m ubil > It is not the number o rrtrl ijut I uic Hreii but the uunioer of hillf < tliat find a billet that tells lho liletiMl 1 am i eoniident that the uvouigcs are muh better with u singleshot gun than tUh a repeater Look at the Boers for etfim I pie It is admitted that their mai kainun ship has been phenomenally accuian1 arm I It Is well known that tho majority of thdr fharpshcoilnff force IB armed ulth a sin gleshot German illle 1 have talked with I a good many army officers and they all deprecate anything that will add to tno nipiditv of the lire of our service rifles Moat of them are doubtful about the teal I vnluo of the maftuzln under any tlreiim stances even with troops under Hi hottest hot-test flreNcw OrkansTlnKsDemoTnl