XXVI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXYII. 



PACK 



Miscellaneous Hints — Use of Gloves — Grasping or holding the Gun — Pro- 

 tection in case of Bursting — Cocking the Gun — Planner of carrying the 

 Gun — Wadding — Punch to make AVads — Proper mode of placing the Wad- 

 ding — A Ramrod wedged in the Barrel — One Barrel discharged — Oiling 

 the Wads — French Wads ; reason for not liking them — Paper Wadding — 

 Patent Waslier, or Washing-rod — Powder Flasks — Mr. Sykes' Flask — One 

 Barrel used more than the other — Shot-Bags or Pouches — Percussion 

 Caps ; importance of using the best — Composition of the Fulminating 

 Powder — Water-proof Caps — Cap Chargers — The Indicator — The Nipple, 

 or Pivot — The Cock-striker, or Hammer ; how should be made — Car- 

 tridges ; how made ; useful invention ; what Shooting most adapted to — 

 Eley's Patent Carti'idges — Precautions when using Paper Cartridges — 

 Spring Cramp — Powder and Shot Guage — Nipple or Pivot AYrcnch — Sport- 

 ing Knife — Carrying Game — Gunning Clothes — Importance of clean Guns 

 — A Pvust Flaw — Dirty Guns — Shooting Boots ; how to be made ; dress- 

 ing for same — Pi,eceipts — Mr. Chandler's Dressing — Shooting Stockings — 

 Cleaning Guns — Leading of Barrels — To prevent rusting; various plans — 

 Shape of the Gun-stock too straight and too short; observations on same 

 — Gun Locks — Greener's Remarks — Gunpowder; origin, &c. ; various 

 kinds — Dupont's Powder; coarse and fine — Prejudices of Duck Shooters 

 — Glazed Powder — Tests for Powder — The Epreuvette, or Powder Prover 

 — To preserve from moisture — Care to be taken of it — Drying Powder — 

 "Properly loading the Gun — Erroneous impressions — Bursting of Guns — 

 Commodore Stockton's Experiments ; the Author's Observations on these 

 Experiments — Recoil; causes of — &c. &c. ...... 343 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



Discovery and Introduction of Gunpowder — Known to the Ancients — Friar 

 Bacon — Berthold Schwarz — Accidental Discovery — IMonument erected to 

 commemorate the event — Cannon; their introduction — The Stock Goune, 

 or Match Lock — The Wheel Lock — The Gun and its various parts — The 

 Longbow-Muskets in the Reign of Elizabeth — Guns made to order — 

 Westley Richards — Dimensions of a Single-barrel Gun ; of double Gun — 

 Bill for the latter — Cost of Importing Guns — Gunsmiths ; those of Eng- 

 land; those of New York; those of Philadelphia — Difference in AVork- 

 manship — Welding Bai-rels — Boring Barrels — Grinding — Turning — Braz- 

 ing, or Breeching — Proving Barrels — Staining — Metal used in the Manu- 

 facture of Guns — Stub-twist Barrels — AVire-twist Iron — Damascus Barrels 

 — Charcoal Iron — Other kinds of JNIetal — Wood for Stocking . . . 403 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



The Art of Cooking Game — "God sends meat;" who sends Cooks? — The 

 happiness of our Sporting Friends — Remarks of tlie Philosophic Rum- 

 ford — Dr. Johnson's quaint remarks — Sympathy between the Stomach 



