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guns bursting from the muzzle being accidentally 

 plugged up with clay, which may have got in 

 whilst jumping a ditch, climbing over a fence, or 

 stumbling on an uneven turnip-field. 



8. From the formation of the cartridge, your 

 shot cannot loosen or fall out whilst walking with 

 the muzzle downwards. 



9. You have no chance of the nipple breaking, 

 or being bothered with its stopping up. 



Advantages 10 ' H W ften in a da y' S shootin g 



whilst Shoot- T r. .1 -i T j r jj 



ing. when both barrels are discharged, do 



you mark a bird down: what an advantage the 

 sportsman armed with a breech-loader has, in 

 being enabled to walk up at once, loading as he 

 goes, without ever taking his eyes from off the 

 spot where the game settled ! 



Absence of 11> Amon S otlier advantages is the 

 total absence of any flash or escape 

 from the breech. Thus, in firing the second 

 barrel on a damp day, the sight is not obstructed, 

 from smoke hanging before the eyes. 



12. There is much less report from a breech- 



