Show sho shooting into a snow know dank bank col whites experiments on the resistance si offered by a bank of 0 f snow sn ow to a rifle bullet which were made at ottawa were most interesting it was as found that the martini bullets fired into a bank of well packed snow were completely spent after traversing a distance of not more than four feet snider bullets in hard packed snow mixed with ice but not liard lard enough to prevent digging into it with a sheet iron shovel did not penetrate more than about four feet in perfectly dry snow enow packed by natural drift but capable of being easily crushed in the land a bullet penetrated about four feet and in loose drifted dry snow less than seven feet though t tough fired from points out only y tw twenty enty nine or thirty yards yarda distant montreal witness |