VI CONTENTS. 



RABBIT-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 . . . . . . I7 1 



A new way of training them I7 1 



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



SHOOTING-DRESS 178 



Game-Bags 180 



Flasks and Pouches 182 



Gun- Wads and Caps 183 



Shot-Cartridges 184 



Recoil 186 



Scientific Matters I9 2 



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 



