274 DUCK GUNS. 



they call "making!" duck guns. Very well, then: if 

 so, by placarding the following name, where it cannot 

 be punched out again, I shall be doing them essential 

 service. 



WILLIAM FULLERD, (removed to) No. 57, Compton- 

 stree,t, Clerkenwell. His brother Tom is partner, fore- 

 man, and factotum, and as good a large barrel forger as 

 ever faced a fire, or swallowed porter. 



(But with regard to common sporting guns, the case 

 alters ; because the fitting up of them is now pretty well 

 understood by every one; and they require so many 

 little appendages that the least trouble, as I before ob- 

 served, when speaking of them, is to go at once to a 

 gunmaker or a pawnbroker.) 



Many will tell you, that a large gun will do no more 

 execution than a small one ; and, by the same rule, they 

 may say, that a gun will kill no farther than a pistol. 



The advantage of a duck gun is, that it will carry 

 large shot more compactly ', and may be fired with double 

 or treble the charge for a piece of an ordinary size. 

 You are therefore enabled to use the largest shot, with 

 the same advantage, that No. 7 may be fired from a 

 double gun ; by which means, at a large object, you 

 may kill considerably farther; and, in a flock, many 

 more birds at a shot. 



In comparing small shot from a double gun , as having 

 the same advantage over large, that a pin, with a mo- 

 derate pressure, would have over a nail, in piercing the 

 feathers of game, by the same argument it may be said, 

 that large shot, from a duck gun, would have the effect 

 of the nail driven by a hammer through the strong 

 bones and feathers of wildfowl. A large gun, to carry 

 twice as much as a small one (say three or four ounces), 



