

and locked by the action spring, and the gun is 

 again ready to be fired by a pressure on the trig 

 ger. The magazine holds four cartridges, which, 

 with the one in the barrel, makes five shots at the 

 shooter's command. Cartridges remaining in the 

 magazine while any number of shots are fired do 

 not become headed at the crimp so they will not 

 enter the chamber freely. The gun has two ex- 

 tractors which withdraw the shell positively, even 

 if the head be broken on one side. The hammer 

 is light and quick; the trigger pull is smooth and 

 easy. A safety catch, conveniently located in the 

 trigger guard where it can not be moved accident- 

 ally, securely locks the trigger, and as the trigger 

 is also the sear, there is no possibility of the cart- 

 ridge being discharged by a jar. Then, too, the 

 trigger is so balanced that it can not be jarred off 

 even when not locked. 



The gun is as safe as any on the market and in 

 many respects it is the safest, but in addition to 

 all this there is the solid breech. The receiver 

 is solid on top, which keeps rain, dirt, rain, etc., 

 from falling in; but a point of far greater import- 

 ance to the shooter, and one to which we wish to 

 call especial attention, is the fact that it is per- 

 fectly solid in the rear. The breech-bolt does 

 not slide out, nor is there any opening of any kind 

 in the rear; consequently it is impossible, no mat- 

 ter what might occur, for gas, grease, firing-pin, 

 breech-bolt, bursted head ot shell, or anything else 

 to fly back through the receiver into the eyes or 

 face. But three models are made. They are, a 

 plain gun, a trap gun and one for messenger or 

 riot service. All sorts of extras may be had, how- 

 ever, and barrels of different length or boring can 

 be interchanged quickly. The gauge will be 12, 

 and the standard length of barrel 28 inches. The 

 standard gun takes five cartridges, but the com- 

 pany also makes one taking two cartridges. 



The take down feature of this automatic shot 

 gun permits the use of interchangeable barrels 

 by which the owner can change the gun from a 

 full or modified choke bore for field, duck, or trap 

 shooting to a cylinder bore for, snap, brush shoot- 

 ing etc., thus having a variety of weapons practic- 

 ally with the one arm by this remarkable weapon. 



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