GUNS. 



observe, that the workmen, employed by these and 

 the other good makers, require wages and indulgence, 

 in proportion to their skill in the respective branches 

 of the business ; and it thereby becomes necessary to 

 charge for the guns accordingly. 



Should this expense be incompatible with the spirit 

 or finances of the shooter, he has only to pay a visit 

 to Mr. Bishop* (170, New Bond Street), or Messrs. 

 Kent, Avery and Vincent (corner of Little Brook 

 Street), where he will get, at reduced prices, the guns 

 of almost every mechanic in London, and some of 

 them entirely new, with every article, as it came 

 packed from the gunmaker, to the gentleman, who 

 raised the wind on it ! 



Buying a gun ready made, at a respectable shop, 

 is cheaper and better than going to an inferior maker, 

 by reason that instead of waiting six months for one, 



men, that he hopes very soon to have his affairs settled, when he 

 intends to resume business again with a new patent double gun 

 on a very improved construction, and which will far exceed any 

 of his former inventions. He will also have new machinery much 

 better adapted for the various parts of gun making, so as to ren- 

 der his workmanship superior to what it ever has been." 



u March 25th, 1826." 



* Mr. Bishop is now agent for Mr. Westley Richards, of Bir- 

 mingham, who is considered by some of our best sportsmen as 

 " Joe Manlon the second ;" and I should say deservedly so, if 

 I may judge by what I have seen of him and his work. Mr. 

 Richards is really a scientific man, instead of having more tongue 

 than brains, like many of our gunmaking charlatans. His bar- 

 rels are perhaps as good as any in the world, being made of pure 

 Holland stubs, and twisted in a manner best suited for service 

 and for safety. 



