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are not, — not shooting closely and steadily, yet a fifteen 

 shooter is certainly an excellent weapon with which to 

 face a bear, if one can be obtained that will shoot steadily. 

 Still, I am not certain that this is the case. 



I like the Henry rifle on many accounts, for you need 

 carry no powder-flask, bullet-pouch, cap-bag, nor ramrod. 

 Your wiper is in the end of the breech. You need not 

 cover this rifle from the rain, and it would go ofl" just as 

 well if it had lain under water all night. It carries a half- 

 ounce ball, which is quite large enough.* 



There are double-barrelled rifles, loading from the 

 muzzle, which are accurate shooters, and can be depended 

 on every time. 



For bear or deer hunting, I prefer balls that weigh 

 about fifty to the pound. 



* Probably if our author had knoT\Ti the Spencer Eifle, which carries 

 seven charges iu its magazine and is a capital arm, he would have given 

 it the preference over the Henry, as did our army during the war.— [Ed.] 



