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For duck-shooting, or the shooting of wild-fowl from 

 a boat, add twenty per centum, or one fifth, to the quan- 

 tity of powder in each charge as above specified, in 

 order to allow for the additional recoil occasioned by 

 the boat, which lessens the force of the charge. 



The following list of the number of pellets in each 

 ounce of shot from an English manufactory (Walker and 

 Parker's) will serve as a general guide. As, in differ- 

 ent manufactories, the shot differ widely in the num- 

 ber of pellets per ounce, we can only give a table that 

 will approximate to the general average. Ordinarily, 

 English shot have a few more pellets to the ounce 

 than American. 



No. 10 has 1,726 pellets per ounce. 



