Show VARYING YING THE RANG ahat can call b be adjustor Adjni tod od to any iho vie moat most recent discoveries of bakers Is a for macreas ugo age of nuy auy cua gun from forty 0 o to one hundred or even one nd ad fafty yard at will MM most understand that by r and nod position of the wads wad la in n they can CAU cause the shot to yo 0 cr or to shoot cloia close with alun atun but beyond that few have 3 idea of bow low it Is to bo be doue AW ei 7 baell HUL oLt cp lexe Tc SHELL SUELL tho the mew device is known as tie the shell and consists cons lati of a brags brass ball slightly smaller than tho boro bore of the gun which ie is divided into hal halve velt each half being titled filled with two emu small flanges each flange haala bavlos a allay tiny bole hole in it through which a steel wire can bo be passed ala shell is oiled filled with any size of shot leaked and the wire pit passed aged through the holes the halve ate held together a solid ball hall at the bottom end of the shell a thick felt wad Is fitted of the size to fit the boro bore of the gun the cartridge is loaded with powder in the alual way with the usual wada wads find and on the top of the these a the nell shell is forced down so 0 o that the wad at the bottom of tho the wire comee next to the wads over the powder und the brass shell lies nug snug within tho the cartridge when tho the gun goo is fired the wad fits ills the berrel and prevent prevents adv of gas and so beaves tho the muzzle behind ibo the shell As it strikes the air the wind catches the edges of t the he I 1 wad I 1 which is slightly larger than the circum ference of tho the shell find so draws tho the wire slowly out and sots sets freo free the two halves of the shell when the shot spreads as if it just ccavin leaving t abo h 0 m uz z to of at the gun with this equipment p m en t 1 I bave shot curlews at a distance di stanco of yards with an ordinary I 1 12 0 bore gun of which tho the average range may bo be sa d to be fifty to sixty yards by cutting the wire with a pair of sharp nippers being befog careful not 0 jo o leave any a 0 overhang ing edges to catch in the sma small ll 11 flange boles holes tho the spread of the shot can be made to take at almoas any dis tance as the shorter the wiro wire the sooner it Is withdrawn by the force of the wind on the wad and tho me shorter the range at which bo the shot Is liberated in case clise one unexpectedly meets bear beat or other largo ga gamecho metho wire can bo be bent over the brass shell by the supers fingers in an instant so that tho the shot shell becomes becom eg 4 folla bullet with a dead line range ange of eighty yards they tire made to fit four eight ten twelve or six sixteen tuen boro bore guns and are imported from edinburgh min |