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VARIETIES OF SHOT-GUNS, ETC. 



LOOSE CHARGE. 



CARTRIDGE. 



SECOND BARREL. 



As the second barrel acts with 

 no greater force than the first, few 

 sportsmen can kill a double shot if 

 the birds rise above twenty yards. 



By using the loose charge in the 

 first barrel and a cartridge in the 

 second, or, when game is wild, a 

 Royal cartridge in the first barrel 

 and a Green in the other, a second 

 shot may be taken with as good a 

 chance of success as the first. 



EFFICIENCY OF THE WHOLE CHARGE. 



About one-fourth of the charge 

 is so injured in rubbing up the 

 barrel as to be quite useless at any 

 distance, and the whole is so 

 jammed into angles as to entirely 

 neutralize any value supposed to 

 be attached to its "patent" ro- 

 tundity. The unequal force of the 

 shots may be ascertained by firing 

 a loose charge, at 100 yards, at a 

 thin fence ; the notice of its arrival 

 at the mark will be continuous, 

 like & feu-de-joie. 



FIRMNESS IN 



Loose charges are very liable to 

 move or rise in the second barrel 

 on the discharge of the first, when 

 the wadding will turn round, and 

 the shot will fall out ; or, with an 

 easy-fitting or soft wadding, the 

 charge will occasionally rise several 

 inches in fifteen or twenty shots, 

 and thereby endanger the safety 

 of the barrel. 



All the pellets of the shot retain 

 their certain roundness which is 

 the cause of their being found so 

 much more effective in the field at 

 long distances than can be shown 

 at a target; all the shots being 

 propelled with equal force. If fired 

 against a fence at 100 yards, the 

 arrival of the shot will be simul- 

 taneous. 



THE BARREL. 



Although the cartridge will rise 

 a little after numerous discharges, 

 yet it is not nearly so liable to it 

 as the loose charge; and indeed, 

 when the barrel becomes foul, it is 

 almost impossible. (It is, however, 

 a necessary precaution in both 

 cases occasionally to try if the 

 charge be risen when loading the 

 other barrel.} 



MOST USEFUL SORTS. 



For game early in the season and battue 



shooting Universal, No. 5 or 6. 



For snipe and other small birds Royal, No. 8. 



For game (second barrel early in the season, and 



first barrel when game is wild) Royal, No. 5 or 6. 



For second barrel when game is wild ... . Royal, No. 4. 



For wild fowl (single birds beyond 60* yards) . Green, No. 3. 



* If within this distance one of the others would do better. 



