RECOIL SPRING. 



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RECOIL SPRING FOR SWIVEL-GUN. 



No work on fowling could be near complete without an allusion to 

 Colonel Hawker's spring, that beautifully simple invention which in 

 the designer's own huge gun has stood the test of near half a century 

 of use ; and there are many guns at work every season that have 

 had this recoil apparatus attached to them since the Colonel's day, 

 and still act as well as ever. If swivel-gun shooters want a hard- 

 and-fast method of fixing a gun, nothing simpler or better has been, 

 or ever will be, devised. For whaling harpoon-gun, sailing-boat, or 

 fowling-punt, if the latter is able to carry the large block necessary 

 to take the swivel-pin, it cannot be excelled. I have seen and tried 



