A Novelty for Volunteers.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 46, 20 September 1883, Page 3

A Novelty for Volunteers.

Through the kindness of Sub-Inspector Coleman, A ihe AC. Force, we have been permitted io examine a most ingenious contrivance for the use of marksmen. We refer to the wonderful little tubes invented by Mr Morris, of Birmingham, for insertion in the barrels of rifles and carbines, and which are attracting a considerable amount of attention all over the world, on account of their extreme simplicity and great utility. The tube we have been shown was imported from England by SubInspector Coleman, through Mr Jno. Young, of Cuba-street, and consists of a small barrel fitting m an ordinary Snider carbine. At the breech end there is a brass boss that fits the bore above the cone. Beyond this the barrel is screwed into a piece of larger calibre, which forms thechamber, in which there is an extractor. The rim of this enlargement eatirely fits the counter-siak for the rim of the cartridge, and the ordinary extractor in its turn works the extractor on the tube. The whole arrangement is very simple, and the veriest duffer cannot fail to adjust, the barrel in a few seconds. By inserting one of these tubes into an ordinary shot gun the latter is at once converted into an effective small-bore rifle. The cartridges used are about a fourth of the size of those required by Snider carbines, and are more than 300 per cent, ■clieaper. The great object claimed by the inventor is that, by the use of these tubes, rifle practice can be carried on in an ordinary building just a« well as in the open air. A set of ingeniously constructed targets accompanies each tube, and bj fixing them up at one end of a room, the 6'X) yards sight can be employed at a distance of 40 or 50 feet. The invention promises to be one of the most useful patented for some time past. — Post.