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The Wilderness Hunter. 



given by the bullet not compensating for the gun's great relative 

 deficiency in range and accuracy, while even the penetration was 

 inferior at ordinary distances. It is largely also a matter of indi- 

 vidual taste. At one time I possessed a very expensive double- 

 barrelled 500 Express, by one of the crack English makers ; but 

 I never liked the gun, and could not do as well with it as with 

 my repeater, which cost barely a sixth as much. So one day I 

 handed it to a Scotch friend, who was manifestly ill at ease with 

 a Winchester exactly like my own. He took to the double-barrel 

 as naturally as I did to the repeater, and did excellent work with 

 it. Personally, I have always preferred the Winchester. I now 

 use a 45-90, with my old buffalo gun, a 40-90 Sharps', as spare 

 rifle. Both, of course, have specially tested barrels, and are 

 stocked and sighted to suit myself. 



