A page from a Sandy Hook Proving Ground gunnery test report, ca. 1902 — printed form, range and elevation tables, official stamp

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Gunnery test report No. 1467, October 1902

1902-10-14

A representative page from the Sandy Hook Proving Ground gunnery test files, held today by the NPS Gateway archives. Ten shots of a 12-inch M1900 rifle, elevation and range recorded for each round, one misfire attributed to a defective primer. The peninsula's job for forty-five years was to fire every new gun the country made and write down what happened.

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Title: Gunnery test report No. 1467, October 1902
Date: 1902-10-14
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Gunnery test report No. 1467, October 1902 (1902-10-14). Placeholder — stand-in for NPS Gateway archives. The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/guns-gunnery-report/.