Английская Википедия:Ball and shot gun
The ball and shot gun, often also known by the marketing name paradox gun, is a shotgun capable of firing both shot and solid projectiles. First built by Holland and Holland, the term paradox is a proprietary name applied to these guns by Holland and Holland.
Design
Ball and shot guns resemble side by side double-barrelled shotguns, typically with pistol grips and flip up sights. The ball and shot gun has broad, shallow rifling in the chokes of smoothbore shotgun barrels.[1]
Ball and shot retained the ability to fire shotgun shells, whilst being able to fire useful bullets accurately at short ranges, in a gun of manageable weight. A typical 12 bore ball and shot gun weighed Шаблон:Convert, whilst a fully rifled 12 bore rifle would weigh over more than Шаблон:Convert. Ball and shot guns were available in a variety of calibres, from 8 bore to 28 bore.[2][3]
The original 12 bore loading from Holland and Holland fired a Шаблон:Convert pure lead bullet that was accurate to ranges up to Шаблон:Convert, Westley Richards developed a 12 bore loading that fired a Шаблон:Convert LT-cappedШаблон:Refn bullet at slightly over Шаблон:Convert which was accurate to ranges up to Шаблон:Convert.[3][4]
Westley Richards 20 bore ball and shot guns fired Шаблон:Convert bullets accurately to Шаблон:Convert, whilst their 28 bore ball and shot guns fired bullets at Шаблон:Convert at ranges of Шаблон:Convert.[4]
History
The ball and shot gun was invented by Colonel George Fosbery, who in 1885 took out the English patent (patent number 7565) for a system of very shallow rifling in the chokes of smoothbore shotgun barrels. Fosbery immediately offered the patent to Holland and Holland, who bought it and from 1886 until 1899, when the patent expired, had exclusive rights to build this class of firearm, marketing it as the Paradox gun.[1][5]
After the expiry of the patent, most of Britain's larger firearm makers offered similar firearms, some retaining the name paradox gun, others opting for new names such as the Jungle gun, Colindian or Cosmos, although the most famous of these was the Westley Richards' Explora (for 12 bore and above) and Faucita (for 20 bore and 28 bore).[1][3]
Use
The 8 bore and 10 bore guns were considered suitable for dangerous game, whilst the most common 12 bore was suitable for medium game.[3]
In his work Thirty-seven years of big game shooting in Cooch Behar, the Duars, and Assam, Maharajah Nripendra Narayan of Cooch Behar states the 12 bore Paradox "is an excellent weapon for Tiger, Bear or Leopard at short ranges up to 100 yards."[6]
In his African Rifles and Cartridges, John "Pondoro" Taylor wrote that the 8 bore and particularly the 10 bore ball and shot guns were popular as stand by backups to smaller calibre rifles for lion shooting. He states he used a paradox gun chiefly for shooting leopard, loading one barrel with a 750 gr solid lead bullet and the second with Шаблон:Convert of buckshot.[3]
In his Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Sir Samuel Baker described the 12 bore paradox gun as "a most useful weapon ..... wonderfully accurate within a range of 100 yards" and that "the penetration and shock are most formidable".[7]
Harold G.C. Swayne used an 8 bore paradox gun by Holland & Holland extensively in Africa and India, in his Seventeen trips through Somalialand he states he believed it to be "the best weapon in the market for heavy game such as elephant or rhino."[8]
Great War service
In the early stages of the First World War, Holland and Holland paradox guns were pressed into service to combat the threat from Zeppelins. Holland and Holland developed a special 12 bore incendiary round, known as the "Holland Buckingham .707 inch Incendiary shell", designed to ignite the airship's hydrogen cells. At least 12 paradox guns were purchased by the Royal Naval Air ServiceШаблон:Refn for use by UK based patrol aircraft and they remained in use until suitable .303 British incendiary ammunition was developed.[9][10]
Notes
See also
References
External links
- Imperial War Museums, "10 bore cartridge, Paradox, Eley", iwm.org.uk, retrieved 20 August 2017.
- Imperial War Museums, "12 bore rifle, Westley Richards Explora Super Magnum", iwm.org.uk, retrieved 20 August 2017.
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