Goatling. 



MUCH as may be said on this important head, I 

 shall attempt to explain it by one simple example : 

 for instance, to load a single gun of six, or double 

 gun of seven, eight, or nine pounds weight, take a 

 steel charger, which holds precisely an ounce and a 

 half of shot ; fill it brim full of powder, from which 

 first prime, and then put the remainder into the 

 barrel : to this add the same measure bumper full of 

 shot, and then regulate the tops of your flasks and 

 belts accordingly. 



Some little difference of charge will, of course, be 

 required between a twenty-two and a fourteen gauge ; 

 and, in this, we may be guided by the shoulder, 

 observing, at the same time, the proportion of each 

 here recommended : but, unless the gun is very heavy, 

 a gauge of fourteen will recoil more than one of 

 ticenty-two ; so that, after all, the above charge might 

 do equally well for both. 



For those who have scales at hand, another way 

 will be to ascertain this by weight; for instance, to 

 the guns above mentioned put one drachm and a 

 half of powder, exclusive of the priming, to an ounce 



