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rels, and ten pounds weight. This is .a gun for 

 all sorts of uses. It will stop anything that flies 

 or runs on this side of the Bocky Mountains, 

 if properly charged and aimed. Many may think 

 ten pounds too heavy to carry, hut the advan- 

 tage of a good solid gun in delivery of fire is 

 very great. I do not like light guns, neither 

 muzzle-loaders nor breech-loaders. The breech- 

 loader I am now using was a three-hundred-dollar 

 gun, and, considering the prices they were selling 

 at when I bought it, was worth the money. It 

 has done a great deal of work — much hard work 

 — and done it well. I have shot with it twelve 

 times in matches against time, undertaking to 

 kill fifty birds in eight minutes, and have won 

 the money every time. I have also killed with 

 it fifty-three out of fifty-four birds in four min- 

 utes and forty -five seconds. This was at Jersey - 

 ville, Illinois, twenty yards from the trap and 

 two birds in the trap. H. B. Slayton was 

 present. At New Orleans I killed one hundred 

 and eleven out of one hundred and eighteen in 

 seventeen minutes and thirty seconds, and picked 

 up my own birds. I have shot many other_ 

 matches with this gun, besides using it in a vast 

 amount of field-shooting every spring, fall, and 



