By the time Bell did his tests--which were focused not on Burrard's work, but on the fact that ammo makers continued to print warnings on their shell boxes about not firing longer shells in shorter chambers, thus causing those who hadn't read Burrard (or, more recently, Gough Thomas) to believe that the danger lies in hull length rather than pressure--we had different hulls, different wads, and different powders (in other words, significant changes in shotshells) since "The Modern Shotgun" was published. Reinventing the wheel? Well, perhaps . . . except radials weren't around in Burrard's day.

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