Sport: Bloodless Cartridges

Many a hunter seeing a pheasant blaze in autumn woods or the stretched checkmark of a flock of geese at sunset wishes he could keep some picture of this sight beside a mental one. Many another hunter, having missed his pheasant or goose, wishes audibly and fervently to know what is the matter with his shooting. Now an English sporting goods firm has offered an invention designed to fulfill both wishes. In the forearm under the gun’s barrels is fitted a cartridge-shaped, cartridge-sized camera. When the gunner pulls his trigger the camera takes a picture so fast that the exposure is over before the explosion of the real cartridge can jerk the barrel. Since the camera is lined with the sights and pointed so as to take in the tip of the barrel, each picture shows where the charge goes. If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture, it is killed. Thus hunters who like to hunt bloodlessly can use blank cartridges, yet produce proof of their skill.