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CHAP. V. 



" He would have clapt in the clowt at twelve score and carried you 

 a fore-hand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that it would 

 have done a man's heart good to see." Henry IV. 



IT is of course a paramount consideration that the deer- 

 stalker should be provided with very accurate rifles. 

 Every sportsman has his favourite maker, and there are 

 many excellent ones; but without making any invidious 

 comparison, I shall confine myself to mentioning some 

 well-authenticated rifle shooting, by Mr. Lancaster, with 

 one of his own guns : and I cannot do this better than 

 by copying the account of it from the Times newspaper, 

 which I have ascertained to be in every respect most 

 correct: 



EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH. 



4 Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas, C.B. ; Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Wylde, C. B. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, Assistant 

 Director General of Artillery; Captain Palliser, Captain 

 \Yingfield, Captain Cockburn, Captain Benn, Captain 

 Derinzy, Captain Gilbert, and a number of officers of the 

 Royal Artillery, Colonel Hawker, the celebrated author 

 in connexion with sporting pieces; Lord Glenlyon, * 



* Now Duke of Atholl. 



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