Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — Shooting Bullets Into Snow. [ARTICLE]

Shooting Bullets Into Snow.

Some experiments were made recently In France on the penetrative power of bullets through snow. The results were astonishing. The Lebel rifle was used, and at a distance of 160 feet the bullet penetrated only five feet Into the snow target. A bullet from a Lebel rifle has been known, It la said, to go through a tree of three and a half feet In diameter. That it should only penetrate eighteen Inches farther into such soft stuff as snow seems altogether startling. The explanation suggested by the experimentalists Is that the rotating bullet picks up particles of snow as it goes In and so gets “balled,” or blocked up.