HINTS ON EQUIPMENT, ETC. 357 



For European shooting only one rifle is necessary, 

 and if a choice must be made I would advise a 

 '500 Express. I consider this a minimum bore to 

 give satisfactory results with red deer, especially in 

 wooded countries, and it will stop a wounded bear. If 

 the sportsman can afford two rifles, I would recommend 

 the '577 Express for bear, boar, reindeer, red deer, 

 and elk, and the '360 for roe, chamois, and ibex. 

 With at least nine men out of ten, these weapons may 

 just as well be single-barrelled. 



One gun only is necessary, but to those who can 

 afford it I would strongly counsel the addition to their 

 battery of one of those small-bore guns of which 

 Charles Lancaster makes a specialty. These guns, 

 which are made in 20, 28, and "410 bores, will drop a 

 grouse at forty yards, and are ideal weapons for snipe 

 and quail shooting in hot climates, where every pound 

 carried tells before the end of the day. 



A want long felt, and hitherto unsupplied, is that 

 of a weapon which shall meet every requirement of 

 common European sport, especially in out-of-the-way 

 districts where transport is a difficulty, and satisfy the 

 regulations of those countries whose laws only permit 

 the introduction of one firearm. Some use a stock 

 with interchangeable gun and rifle barrels. In this 

 case it is obvious that the balance of the weapon must 

 be defective with one pair. The Germans are given 

 to the use of a " drilling " which has two gun and 

 one rifled barrel. Its good points, however, are more 

 than counterbalanced by its weight and cumbersome 

 appearance. 



