Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-04-20 | Page 8 | The Trajectory of a Thing

the leeory of the trajectory of a thing Is the path of a ballet or anything else passing through the air from the gun to abo place where it strikes generally tho word Is applied only to cotlets and can non baas in shooting at an object near at hand yon aim point blank be cause tho ballet practically reaches tho target before it falls at all but when you fire at a distant object you kimt aim above it so that the bluet may have room to tall and yet bit the object the desire of every marksman l to get a trajectory as flat as possible so that the bullet shall have no need of falling very far A flat trajectory is obtained by increasing the speed of the bullets by diminishing their size and IDS the powder charge