Box Elder News Journal | 1908-06-25 | Page 2 | Resistance of Snow

resistance of snow now during certain government experiments at washington with reference to the effects ol 01 0 sudden pressures attention was called to a singular experience per peri lence ence which sometimes happens to people who go shooting in winter it T the muzzle of a gun happens to become plugged with a little snoa the gun invariably bursts when fired in that condition light as the plug of 0 snow Is it requires a definite time din e for a finite pressure however g great eat t to 0 get it under tinder way and durl during g this short time the tension 0 of the powder gases becomes so great that the barrel of the ordinary fowling piece I 1 is S unable to withstand it