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DUCK GUNS. 



In comparison with the table of shots originally 

 given, I am now enabled to add, the performance of 

 a duck gun, made expressly to my order by Mr. 

 Joseph Manton, the barrel of which was prepared by 

 Lancaster. 



With four ounces and a half of No. 2 shot, well 

 shaken down, after being put in the barrel, and an 

 equal measure of powder strongly wadded: 



The following table of a gun trial, which I have 

 just found among my papers, and which I perfectly 

 remember making (though I see it is without date, and 

 without the size of the target or the shot being speci- 

 fied), may yet prove as well worth insertion as any, 

 because it plainly shows the decided advantage in the 

 increased size of guns. 



bore, and therefore would not answer my purpose for wildfowl. This gun was made 

 to my order by Mr. Joseph Manton, and is the same with which Mr. Osbaldiston, 

 in 1824, won a five hundred guinea match, and since that, several others. This 

 gentleman refused one hundred and fifty guineas for the gun. 



