Thanks for the info Patti!!
Anyway! I thought it would have been a smart move for the ballistics expert to wear gloves and a protective overall during the testing that could have been analysed for lead residue.
I take it you are telling me that the gun could have overheated because it was faulty. The counter-argument being that it could have become faulty when Nevill was struck with it and perhaps after the shots were fired, which would then make the testing by Phillip Boyce more plausible!
Why would there be any discrepancy over how many shots Nevill took? The number I have regularly come across is 8 or 9. If it was only 6-7 where did the extra shots end up? What would the prosecution gain out of this argument? It would be interesting to know how many spent shell-casings were retrieved by the police!
Can you tell me how Malcolm Fletcher would have mishandled the gun to make it malfunction?
Sorry! I have lots to learn about this case! 
Hi Tom, please forgive me for disagreeing with you, but I think the experiment of several people firing bullets with unprotected clothing was done in all good faith for it did not mimick the scene it was supposed to have done. Sheila wore no gloves or protective clothing.
I find it impossible to believe that a woman was in a room where 14 shots were fired and yet has no residue on her at all. Can I stress that Elliott only did a visual test on her nightdress, no swabs were ever taken.
Her hand swabs DRH/33 which were taken to lab were rejected, because they arrived with rifles/guns, so therefore run the risk of contamination. These swabs would not have been re-submitted to the lab because the lab would have still rejected them.
However, the swabs were re-submitted under exhibit DRH/44 this exhibit number was used twice because it also relates to the bible. On the re-submission the police did not put on the HoLab form that it was a re-submission, therefore the lab excepted it as a new submission.
Here is my argument. It does not matter if Sheila did not shoot anyone, she would have still had residue on her clothing and on her right hand. Reside spreads like dust, in some cases it can spread for several yards. Residue would have been all over the main bedroom, carpets, bedclothes, on the shooter and on Sheila. She had taken two shots, there would in no doubt had been reside on her clothing....No proper test was done! She was photographed holding the rifle where residue would be most profound and yet no residue were found on the swabs.
If the swabs had been retaken, which they should have been, then this would have been done after the PM....and Sheila would have been washed down...hence no residue on her hands....Whoever took the 2nd swabs would have known this....
Sorry this is long
About the bullets. Well each bullet comes with a weight and when fired it loses that said weight. If It is hits something hard it can either mushroom of fragment. When you weigh up all the fragments taken from a body and piece it together like a jigzaw, it can make one whole bullet. In Nevill's case there were too many little fragments and not enough damaged/half/weighty fragments that could weigh up to 8 bullets.
1.19 is a very small fragment that Fletcher regarded as a bullet. Its normal weight would have been just over 4.29? There is no way that this fragment should be regarded as a full bullet, because it might have belonged to another fragment found in the same place of 1.95, which he classes also as a bullet....It is very complicated to write this down...lol but I have noticed a pattern with the rifle....of which I am not prepared to post about.
I don't thin Fletcher did mishandle the rifle, the rifle was said to malfunction when he tested it. I am not a gin expert, but my question is this: If the rifle malfunctioned, then was it likely to get overheated when used?
Sorry this is drawn out, but I am a quiet person of the forum...lol
