----------------------+---------------+---------------+----------- | | | Name of Maker. | Total on face | Tot’l thro’gh | Recoil in | of 4 targets. | 4 targets. | pounds. | | | ----------------------+---------------+---------------+----------- | | | ----------------------+---------------+---------------+-----+----- O. Smith, Derby | 325 | 68 | 68 | 58 Culling | 322 | 43 | 53 | 54 Dougall, Glasgow | 312 | 54 | 65 | 68 Joe Manton, London | 301 | 57 | 64 | 62 Culling | 289 | 47 | 60 | 44 Reilly | 300 | 69 | 69 | 76 Lang, London | 283 | 51 | 64 | 60 Reilly | 274 | 67 | 68 | 74 Prince & Green | 249 | 64 | 71 | 73 Prince & Green | 242 | 49 | 69 | 64 Hast | 206 | 63 | 68 | 67 Reilly | 225 | 46 | 68 | 72 ----------------------+---------------+---------------+-----+----- | 277 | 56 | 65 | 64 ----------------------+---------------+---------------+-----+----- The guns were classified according to their weight. The breech-loaders, which used one quarter of a drachm more powder, showed about an equal recoil; the recoil differed surprisingly, ranging from 44 to 76 lbs., and was no indication of the power with which the shot was driven--a greater number of sheets being pierced where the recoil was under the average. The patterns produced by the muzzle-loaders varied from those of the breech-loaders less than they did from one another, and far less than that of one barrel differed from that of the other; in fact, the right-hand barrel seems to have shot much the best, and some of the guns that excelled at 40 yards fell far behindhand at 60 yards.