Milford News | 1929-03-08 | Page 2 | Range Gun Fires Steel Balls

Range Gun Firei Steel Balls A range gun to be used In teaching gun laying and pointing hns been invented in-vented by dipt. E. H. Stlllman, assistant as-sistant professor of military science and tactics at the University of California, Cali-fornia, snys Popular Mechanics Magazine. Maga-zine. The gun. a wooden affair worked by a spring, fires quarter-inch steel-bearing steel-bearing balls. The spring tension is so adjusted that one Inch on the range used equals fifty yards. The steel projectiles pro-jectiles fall on a sand table eight by fourteen feet In size, nnd tiny bursts of sand mnrk the shell puts. Small wooden wood-en model battleships are used for targets tar-gets on ranges equivalent to 21.000 yards.