Show I I Toting Greet Guns liun- Tile The d deadly Maxim jun linn hail many severe tests teat to undergo before It ILia Is la finally passed as all fit for active sere f Outwardly It i Is not of vcr very appearance but butIn butin ut utIn In action Us lis capabilities arc are too well known to 10 n nod need I comment The Th number and variety of texts tests to which one on of these weapons Is put Io 10 toj insure lure accuracy and ami ani I reliability would ev however n r be e un an e eye eye- opener to the uninitiated Th The tents are divided 1 Into tubo two Iwo da tho those undergone in n the factory factor pret previous to 10 be lime fitting 1 to together together to- to gether Jether of the time parts and ancI the actual actual ac ac- ac- ac working test tests hn has a single barrel similar to 10 of Orl a it rifle aur- aur miri lUrI mir mir- i rounded by hy a R circular circular- steel Jacket jakeL One I weapon Is unique ever every Hem team ln ha having 1 constructed with 11 the ut utmost utmost ut ut- most mOAt possible accuracy Even n Ju Judged hy by hyth hyth th lip th standard that t obtains In gun un factories where when the time thickness of or a paper too much or too H tIe Ul In certain places would be h. esteemed not a mi mere ro Inaccuracy but hilt a deplorable dt blunder this gun un s aeI acv ac- I as nil a masterpiece It was trims 1 I cOOl constructed and Is used for reference only An Any question of or accuracy of or any amy anyone one ont of or the numerous partS part If It In dispute hi Is referred ret to this standard gun Jiun It Jl is Ill HO so to speak sleak n a IJ e that each th and every el component of or a Maxim must pass before It can an h hi h. ed limon among tho those e pushed I hr l v time factor authorities lic as stilt sult- aide to h he nl assembled ta forum form n a complete weapons Upon a hul largo u bench can b be- be seen een eenan an Infinite variety varlet of gauges each luh of I which has hilt Its own special part to pIa play In n the testing The barrel band of or a gun un must have several s shaped different gauges passed 0 over 01 1 th the outside to Insure that th the forma formation lion I Is absolutely correct Through h the bore hort a steel gauge Is passed This tiny roil rod TOt must drop freely through h yet at nl the same time lime must fit It so exactly to lo the time size of the bore that I If Ir the thumb he placed over o the bottom bot bot- bottom tom end the thC air pressure will cause cauM- It to lo remain suspended at al an any point throughout through through- out the length lenth of the barrel The rime short sand butt range Tan I Is more moll especially es es- especially 8 pf a t test t of or lIi the working capacity where a lar large e number of rounds are find r A bus en-bus effect of or the rapid fire Is to mate a U small 11 shaped funnel hole deep Into the time sand The are easily col col- d when n the trial is is' is over It occasionally occa happens thai In spite of oC nil all the care car an anti ami time Um expended ll upon lon the time various ports parts when vw fitted together ant and actually ut at t work sonic name undetected Irregularity asserts as nC- serta itself lf and requires adjustment or I possibly same Mima m. m item Ihm Is it found to be faulty I In n which m case cac the gun Run is 18 returned to the factory with wilh n a retort rr Jf Ir th the working of or the machines pr satisfactory satisfactory satis Mils I factory a practical test lut for n act mm u lie icy fol fol- fol- fol lows this purpose an open hun hun hun- I yard dred-yard rang nUl 1 l Is used the effect of or the firing r being watched through A It telescope l The fhe actual timing firing and Ind t testing at Union mica I reveals rr Individual eccentricities and Ir Irregularities ir- ir Ir-I Ir regularities s In m v I. weapon that thai cn en r ht w de he detected I r n no other Wi way tray so until e expert Inspectors to 15 have pronounced It n accurate i I from personal o observation rv It can cun not 11 bo be i I t time e u service Every gun tested 1 IK Is 1 number d. d 1111 arc 1 n a report of or Its behavior flit for fOI future Wn reference Another duty dut j t tor of or the time testing department Is to examine I and m r pori upon weapons WN n tint hove have j I sued issued for service and as all sometimes t oc- oc ocI I i curs urs stiL returned for adjustment adjust meat ment or repair Maxims that have been heen on mm active service are arl returned and over over- 1 d. reports being n he made matJe of their con con- lilion Timers Timers' I is I. lh the same peculiar in- in in individuality about Maxim guns a as Is found round In ships te from flolO identically tim tin tin- the he familiar In Instance instance tn- tn same plans or even ln more moll stance of or railway engines of or the same pattern lattern No o two behave exactly nuke In each aeh instance It seems em Impossible to eremite create an exact working duplicate This in mm guns or 11 rifles It ana may possibly be he accounted accounted ac ac- ac counted for by hy Imperceptible Irr irregularities irregularities ties tI In the metal Itself ett slight variations variations' In the time temper of the time barrels harrell etc |