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ping the gun. No gun that has the barrels 

 badly indented should be used. 

 If a third gun be used, it should be held by a keeper 

 or a second loader, who stands behind the shooter and 

 first loader. It is this man who may keep his eyes on 

 the birds, but never the loader. 



CLEANING OF GUNS AND RIFLES 



In addition to the regular cleaning of the guns at 

 the end of the day's sport, there is something to be said 

 for cleaning them at intervals in the shooting. When 

 there is much heavy firing, as in a big grouse or partridge 

 drive, or a big covert shoot, it is in every way desirable 

 that the barrels should be at least " run through " some 

 time during the day. Clean barrels minimise any ten- 

 dency to "rebound," or create it where it does not 

 naturally exist. The procedure to be recommended 

 in cleaning a gun is the following : 



(1) Take the gun to pieces, and place the barrels 



on a cloth. 



(2) First clean the barrels with hot water, and run 



over and through with tow. 



(3) Put finest paraffin or Rangoon oil on clean tow 



at the end of a rod, and run the barrels well 

 through. 



(4) Run through the barrels again with clean soft tow. 



(5) Coat the inside and outside of the barrels with 



vaseline. 

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