NELSON

Press, Volume II, Issue 41, 22 February 1862, Page 4

NELSON

HfeSßY's Patent Rifle.—A new rifle, the peculiar grooving of which has been patterned and patented by Mr. Alexander Henry, gunmaker, 8 St. Andrew street, Edinbnrg, has been tried at ranges from 200 yards to a mile, and tic results have been certainly equal, if nut superior to those of any rifle we have heard of. The practice was only in W course of arranging the sights of the piece, and, therefore, the first two or three shots cannot necessarily be taken as fair trials. Still, at 1,100 yards, out of six shots, Mr. Henry hit the target with every ball in the last live, making tfcrw centres and two outers. At the mile range he hit the which was six feet high by ten wide, three times out of se« shots. The bore of "this rifle is somewhat larger than Whitworth, and the ball is about the same length. ball fits easily in-the" barrel, and there is very The advantage of the bore seems to lie in the surface which is made to present a resistance to the s of the ball in the slighest degree from the g™ o ™ B, * , gave it its rotatory motion and direction in the perfect in which the expansion of the ball tills the tbe resistance of the air to the ball is so slight, tha marker's butt at the mile range, neither the repo rifle nor the whistle of the ball is heard; and it w the hull hitting the ground or the target, that the knows when a shot has been firefL—Xtlaon Exumoitr.