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Protecting the Bullet in the Magazine
Where the cartridges are fed from the butt-stock by a spiral spring the bullet is liable to strike the counter-bore of the barrel, making a notch in the bullet and rendering it useless for accurate work. When the cartridges are brought up by a carrier on an angle the same thing will happen—the counter-bore of the barrel either stops the bullet or cuts off a piece sufficiently large to make it impossible that its flight be accurate and make a good target, because of its irregular shape made by such contact. It is well understood that a good shot, when using any of the magazine guns in which the cartridges are fed by a spiral spring, uses it as a single-loader; and the reason is, that the bullet is generally so mutilated by striking the counter-bore, that its flight is not to be depended upon for accuracy.
Farrow, Edward S. American Small Arms; a Veritable Encyclopedia of Knowledge for Sportsmen and Military Men. New York: Bradford, 1904. Print.
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