64 DETONATING SYSTEM. 



" A round from one of the best fourteen gauge 

 double detonaters in the kingdom, made by Mr. Jo- 

 seph Man ton, with No. 1 shot, as above (with wadding 

 cut by his new dented punch, on both powder and 

 shot) : in order to show, that even the very best small 

 guns will not throw large shot like duck-guns : 



In the first sheet. Through all. 



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" A second round from the same barrel (loaded 

 with wadding cut by a common punch on the powder, 

 and wadding cut by a dented punch on the shot) : 



In the first sheet. Through all. 



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" From the result of very many experiments, Col. 

 Hawker is of opinion, that for neat shooting in the 

 field, or covert, and also for killing single shots at 

 wildfowl, rapidly flying, and particularly by night, 

 there is not a question in favour of the detonater, as 

 its trifling inferiority to the flint is tenfold repaid by 

 the wonderful accuracy it gives in so readily obeying 

 the eye. But, in firing a heavy charge among a large 

 flock of birds, the flint has the decided advantage ; 

 and, moreover, the sudden, and additional, recoil of 

 a detonater, with the full charge of a duck-gun, is 

 apt, if the shooter be not careful, to strike the hand 

 back, and give him a severe blow on the nose. For 

 duck guns, therefore, he recommends, besides the flint 

 lock, a detonating one on the principle which Mr. 

 Joseph Manton has so beautifully made to his order. 



