DETONATING SYSTEM. 75 



THE DISSECTION 



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Is much more simple ; and your locks remain on 

 the stock while in the case, so that you have only to 

 put in your barrels (remembering that you must draw 

 up the cocks first), and your gun is ready for the field. 



CLEANING. 



SIMILAR to a flint gun, and rather less to do : hut 

 you must leave every thing, as well as the inside of 

 the barrels, kept a very little damp with sweet oil, 

 or your gun will rust fifty times worse than with 

 common powder. 



It should be observed, however, that when the 

 oxygen mixes with gunpowder, in its explosion, it 

 becomes less injurious to the iron ; consequently the 

 cocks and breechings receive even more damage from 

 this composition than do the insides of the barrels. 



LOADING. 



As I before observed, you are obliged, in your own 

 defence, to load a detonater lighter than a flint-gun ; 

 and as it goes quicker (though not stronger, as the 

 gunmakers would wish to make you believe), and 

 for other reasons before given, you may use a fourth 

 less powder than with a flint-gun. Many sportsmen 

 feel quite positive that a detonater shoots much 



