| Show Gun Accidents and How Plow to Avoid Them LIEN n N ono one considers how hour many shot chot W I II guns are arc In dally use throughout the tho year how boW cheaply some Bome of or them hoe here been produced and how habitually habit habitually careless carel ore many of those whoso whose pleasure It Is to handle them the wonder Is Js not that gun guo accidents occur occur but bat that they occur EO so seldom Tho The careful sportsman Is la ever oer on his hL guard not Dot only against his own mistakes but the mistakes of oC others Even Enn If J ho bo knows that his gun Gon Is the best beet It Is possible to purchase and trusts trust It absolutely ho lie will VIII take care that It Is 15 to no unfair trials Tho The lot last lastS S cartridge e fired may have been carelessly filled Oiled Tho The man who made mollo It may have put In sufficient powder to drive the shot from the tho gun Iun but not enough to dis discharge discharge charge the wad trod ad If It tho the next cartridge Is fired while the wad of oC Its predecessor Is sticking In the middle of ot tho the barrel the chances chanced are aro that the barrel will burst and the sportsman lose his hla hand band and aDel perhaps his bis life lite Moral Mako It n a habit to glance through tho the barrel before Inserting In a n cartridge A gun IUD that has hils been altered should al nl always ways wars be regarded with wIlh suspicion The Tile F fitting of o an m ejector for or Instance upon a n agun agun gun Iun not DOt designed for Cor one Is liable to pro produce produce duce duco a n weakness which h may cause a n burst bont But It Is from Crom the other end of oC the gun un that accidents most frequently occur Of I course no sane person would ever aim a n gun un at nt anyone whether the gun sun was waB likely to go bO off or not even whether It was loaded loade l or not but It Is 10 isan nn an astonishing thing considering tho the small number of oC people composing cOl nn an average party that when n a gun sun does go So off orr accidentally It Is nearly DeMl always point pointIng lag Ing In at a n human being A not uncommon cause couse of or accident la to lathe the thc pernicious habit which some shooters have hae of or bringing up lip the barrel to the stock In loading Instead of ot bringing up the stock to tho the barrel The Jar of or clos cloy closing lug IDS the tho breech Is sometimes sufficient to discharge a n too sensitive cartridge e If It tho the barrel been brought up It Is probably pointing nt at the moment nt ot a n mans head whereas If IC the stock had been brought up the thc charge would have gono gone harmless harmlessly ly I Into the ground Or tho the accident may maT bo be due to momentary mo momentary forgetfulness of oC tho the fact that one ODe la is 9 carrying under ones arm or over oer ones shoulder a n Instrument Instrument ment The sportsman who Is trying to get a light lIht for his hla cigar on a l windy day da often oCton goes through a n series Brlej of o bodily con contortions which cause the tho barrels of or tho the gun suo he Is 19 carrying to dodge round all the points of or the tho compass If 11 however ho bo Is a real sportsman he be will not at nt I I I tempt to light up unless the barrels are arc empty It Is so easy eMy to remove n a cartridge from fromn n breechloader that there Is lIO excuse use nowadays for tor the sportsman who carries carrle n loaded gun bun while concentrating his attention upon tho the lighting ot of a cigar chor the scrambling through a n hedge or oven tho the Jumping of or a n ditch ditched Next ed to pointing his weapon directly at atan any an person the thc biggest fool Cool trick which a man can play with a n gun Iun Is to take It loaded Into a n lIo It bo be iLlo If IC It were not notorious that the number of oC fatalities resulting from tins this net of oC lunacy exceeds exceed that of oC all other accidents with sporting guns GunK |
