Vi CONTENTS. 



Rabjbit-Shooting — Continued. 



Tricks of Hares 165 



Where Hares can be found 166 



How Hares and Rabbits leap 167 



When to shoot at them 167 



Rabbits are not Hares, &c 169 



The Setter and Pointer 171 



A new way of training them 171 



What my Setter did, trained in this way . . . 176 



Shooting-Dress • .178 



Game-Bags 180 



Flasks and Pouches J 82 



Gun- Wads and Caps J 83 



Shot-Cartridges 184 



Recoil 186 



Scientific Matters 192 



Gunpowder 199 



English and American Manufacturers . . . 200 



Different Qualities of Powder 200 



Coarse and Fine Powder 201 



How Powder is made 202 



How to dry damp Powder 204 



How Gun-barrels are made, &c 205 



The Invention of the Gun, &c 205 



Materials for Gun-barrels 208 



Counterfeit Barrels 211 



Laminated Steel 212 



Barrel Figure 214 



Wire-Twist and Damascus Iron . . . . 215 



Horse-Shoe Nails 221 



Stub-Iron and Steel 222 



Welding 226 



Boring and Grinding Gun-barrels .... 230 



The Patent Breech . . . . . . . 232 



Laminated Steel Barrels 234 



Steel Barrels . . 238 



