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For a bad or uncertain rifle-shot, the green cartridge, with SG shot is the thing twelve good-sized slugs, propelled with force enough to go through an inch plank, at eighty yards, within a compass of three feet but no wad must be used, either upon the cartridge or between that and the powder; the small end must be inserted downward, and the cartridge must be chosen so that the wad at the top shall fit the gun, the case being two sizes less than the caliber.
By authority vested in me as Senior Officer, Solar Guard, I hereby recommend official commendation of "well done" to the above-mentioned spacemen, and that all honors pursuant to that commendation be officially bestowed on them. Signed, Connel, Major, SO SG ..." He closed the book and wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.
This I propose that you should use to-morrow, with a 1 1/2 oz. SG cartridge, which contains eighteen buck-shot, and which, if you get a shot any where within a hundred yards, will kill him as dead, I warrant it, as an ounce bullet." "Which you intend to try, I fancy," added Frank. "Not quite! my rifle carries eighteen only to the pound; and yours, if I forget not, only thirty-two."
He's trying to salvage some of the young nonworkers through exposing them to military discipline. A good many of them, I believe, have gone off-planet on their discharge from the SG and hired as mercenaries, which is a far better profession than vote selling." "Quite a plausible explanation: Prince Travann is nothing if not plausible," the Prime Minister agreed.
The other, the chief line of the Vertebrate stem, advanced straight to the fishes, and by fresh adaptations acquired a number of important improvements. II Vertebral column: ob upper arches, ub lower arches, hc intercentra, r ribs. IV Breast-fin: sg shoulder-zone, ax fin-axis, ss double lines of fin-rays, bs additional rays, sch plates.
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