igo THE COMPLETE WILDFOWLER 



favour. The cost of manufacture of this gear cannot be stated. 

 If a number were ordered together, the cost of each might be 

 reduced, but as this is not likely to be so in the present case, 

 the intending user must bear the cost of first production. 

 Those who are amateur fitters and turners might arrange the 

 work piecemeal ; the casting and machine-work they could not 

 themselves do could be given out to some small engineering 

 firm. On receipt of the parts they could fit and assemble them. 



Longitudinal Section 

 Recoil Gear for Swivel-Gun mounted in the bow of rowing boat 



This work is rather out of the line of ordinary gunmaking, and 

 as the ordinary profits on guns are too high to allow this class 

 of work to be taken profitably in hand, gunmakers do not, as a 

 rule, care about such jobs as these. By far the cheapest plan, 

 in the long run, is to put the work into the hands of some 

 small, yet reliable, engineering firm or machine-tool makers. 



Before going on to describe our gear, we may state that a 

 similar one to that here shown has stood the test of seven 

 seasons' wear, and is now as good as when first made, answer- 

 ing its purpose perfectly. The working is thus : — On recoil the 

 forespring contracts. The pressure of the recoil is taken upon 



