28 ' ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



23. GUNS AND PISTOLS— Continued. 



b. Breech-loading arms : 



With smooth bores : 



Fowliug-pieces. 



Pistols. 

 With rifled bores : 



Muskets. 



Hunting rifles. 

 Carbines : 



Single-barreled carbines. 



Revolving carbines. 

 Pistols: 



Pistols. 



Revolvers. 



c. Whaling-guns: 



Bomb lance and gun. 

 Harpoon ball and gun. 

 Harpoon-gun. 

 Harpoon bomb-lauce gun. 

 24 ACCESSORY.) AMMUNITION AND ITS PREPARATION. 



a. Explosives : 



Gunpowder. 

 Gun-cotton. 

 Percussion powder: 



Caps. 



Needle percussion. 



Primers. 

 Wood powder. 

 Dynamite or giant-powder. 

 Nitroglycerine. 

 Dualine. 

 Lithofracteur, 

 Colouia powder. 

 Other explosives. 



b. Missiles : 



Bullets. 



(Accessory) bullet-molds. 



Shot. 



(Accessory) methods of manufacturing shot. 



