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difficulty in procuring a suitable range 

 myself, but at last picked out a pretty good 

 hundred yards, though across a gully. 



I may remark that I had already found 

 out that the altered weapon handled and 

 balanced beautifully, which with the long, 

 heavy barrel It had been very far from doing 

 previously. The target used throughout the 

 trials measured twelve Inches by seven. 

 This first day I began at a hundred yards, 

 but only hit the mark once in six shots. On 

 going to examine, I found the other five 

 could be covered with the hand, but these 

 were quite eighteen inches below the bull. 

 It was obvious then that my solitary hit was 

 a "bob." I finished the packet of cartridges 

 at sixty yards, and here again all four struck 

 close together — all just below the target. 

 This trial conclusively proved that the rifle 



