128 CHOICE OF A GUN. 



The following precautionary suggestions re- 

 lative to the choice and purchase of a gun, and 

 the best mode of trying its powers, may be of 

 service to the tyro. 



If price be no object, the novice 



On the , 



Selection of cannot do wrong by going to any 



Fire-arms. 



one of the half-dozen crack gun- 

 makers, Purday, Westley Richards, Lancaster, 

 Lang, or Boss, who will not compromise their 

 world-wide reputations by letting a bad gun 

 bearing their name leave their shops. By 

 naming these firms as first-rate artists in gun- 

 making, I by no means mean to infer that other 

 manufacturers are not practically as good, or as 

 much to be depended upon, as I know country 

 makers who turn out as highly finished work as 

 can be purchased in London. My object is to 

 disprove a doctrine often promulgated by the 

 ignorant, or interested parties attempting to im- 

 pose upon the credulity of the public, by the 

 unsound doctrine, " that cheaply made guns are 

 intrinsically as good, shoot as well, and last as 



