WHAT WILL BURST A GUN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1266, 18 November 1884, Page 1

WHAT WILL BURST A GUN.

In braVado. a young man placed the muzzle of his ! fo*lin« peice under the water,-and fired the The remit was the blunting of tlie barrel netr the breech, and the mutilation of his hand. A nother placed and held the.muzzle of h<s piece jSqtiaresaga'nat a pl*l» iriur dow girths, and tired the charge—powder and builev: The glass wa« shattered, no was the gun bairel.-- Another insUnce was iliac uf an .experimenter who bad heard that h candle eouM be fired from the barrel of * ijjun tiiroiitjh an i-ch board. He drove a candle into the muzzle of the gun, tired, and the explosion split the barrel, almost its entire length, and did not even drire theicfndle from the i muzz'e. Still another ; burst of a gun barrel was caused by the u»eof wet grass for a wad, well rammed 0 down oter a charge of shot. But perhaps on* of the most* singular exhibitions in. t,hia line was the,...Colt's.-. ;nnvy: .revolver, wbijh some nouiejears ago was tent to the tactory in ,Hartford, Conn, , This wm befor* tlie adoption of these piMtolo to the metallic caitridge*, and it in' t pr£ba~ble to | loading with open powuer and Jb»U only a •mail amount of the chamber, and the h»llei was not propelled with sufficient 'force to driy.q. it from the muzzle ; at least the buliei didnot go out but lodged. As the shooterdid not know whether the bullft vscaped or not, ha kept, on firing until the birrel burst or bulged, and when it w«s ««•***<! in two loDgitudinaJly) there were found fourteen bullet* «edg»*d-one into, another,: and so mucn M upset .VtbjfiJheJjammf'rinK of the successive explosions I /of the .powder charge* ithat'some, of them weie not less .thaniotie iucb diamater.vhei.'jg flattened diecs ioateadof conical bullets.