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ejected with utmost certainty and regularity when using 

 this gun very rapidly. 



This does not by any means exhaust the list of single- 

 triggered guns now available. Messrs. Westley Richards, 

 of London and Birmingham ; Messrs. J. Lang, New Bond 

 St., W. ; Messrs. J. and W. Tolley, London and Birming- 

 ham ; Mr. Blanch, Gracechurch St., E.G. ; Messrs. F. T. 

 Baker, Glasshouse St., W. ; Mr. W. W. Greener, Birming- 

 ham ; Messrs. Cogswell and Harrison, London, and several 

 other notabilities in the gun-manufacturing world, each 

 one has his particular form to offer the sportsman. 



Many people confess to a liking for the well-tried 

 damascus for gun-barrels, a metal composed of iron and 

 steel mechanically intermixed and welded together. 

 This if only for the reason that by the application of 

 certain acids to the surface of this admixture of steel 

 and iron, the process technically known as " browning, " 

 the general texture of the combination is discernible. 

 To some extent, therefore, with barrels of this composite 

 nature there is external evidence as to strength and 

 reliability. With steel this is not the case, this metal 

 presenting no appearance of figure or grain on its 

 surface, so that in great measure its bona fides must be 

 assumed. Experts in matters metallurgic tell us that 

 properly-made barrels of a suitable form of steel are 

 capable of withstanding greater strains and of long out- 

 living the best and finest damascus barrels ever 

 produced. Fortified by this assurance I have shot with 

 several steel-barrelled guns by various makers, and, thus 

 far, .without hitch or drawback in their use. There are 

 several forms of steel suitable for the manufacture of 

 shot-gun barrels now on the market. The fluid 

 compressed steel emanating from the well-known 



