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PART IV. 

 PRACTICAL HINTS ON FIREARMS 



AND THEIR USE'. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



The advantage of breech-loading guns and rifles. The different 

 systems. Advice on purchasing fire-arms. The theory of rifle 

 practice. Aiming, position, judging distance, and practical 

 hints on shooting. On the colour of sportsmen's dress. Table 

 of experiments with targets. 



A T a time when cannon and rifles form the subject 

 -^- of so much discussion and conversation in 

 every circle, it were well if sportsmen would give 

 some consideration to the breech-loading system as 

 adapted to sporting-arms. Cannon and small arms 

 are both in a transition state, and in the course of 

 a few years we may expect to see great changes 

 in the armament of our land and naval forces ; 

 for Sir William Armstrong and Mr. Whitworth, of 

 Manchester, have satisfactorily proved that rifled 

 cannon on the breech-loading system exceed all others 



