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fias,tf?0 decided adysai^tag©.” how^v^ti'th^ snperiQriwmM 
detonator tor ^hoothxf, dtyiisg wtli tixe ordimry 
rmy Intd 530 loiigcr time to diicK «« iM §asi3. TJse improvements! 
Enjgiisii gsmmakers fdr their aistomers were mturally 
Cor BilJltary porposes, hut eely ijiFF rMpectful distance; the conTersk^v^' 
^ die Army mnske-t or Bnywn Urn. dint lock to the 
system does uot seem to haw '¥mr, till i842> 
"The um of ■■^r.k g5rvs,v». ''•■:i^. r^-ased. .They are - 
:n&dmtoi ^c* <• ; ,«n-' -y| making gun Qiat«, 
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... r-v.-.-.i: at its hnai perfection, and as used in 
r;,. » I «- ceolnry vvjisS a wea|Kr-A ol which both the maker 
' h£ mi||iu he proud. The eaUhre. acc<»r.din^ t» the iudiTidual^.s 
Vimte, was usiraily from 11 to’S6» 
Greener, in ? speaks of a 15 bore as being the best compromise 
uU drcii>ms^.ai 2 Cc 8 , and says that this size wi!l long hold' a position 
hi the front rank of spirting gimsi’ Ajiotljer writer, in IS55, recom-mends 
a gU 3 i pA 14 or even' 16 bore as preferable to the heavier 9 ,box“e at tiiat 
time 2tmst in fashion, ,/r third author, in 1861, advises a. gun of any calibre 
vGom J.2 to 16 for partridges, and from II to 14 for grouse and blackgame. 
iVe thus see that Ihougli larger bores than formerly were in use, and 
sr;,ch vi^,ea as the 20 -bf 2 1 gauge of Joe Msnton’s time were no longer 
laor^ixal, there %vsis not yet the tetidency to standardization which has 
■ become m mnrked a feature oi fer^cb -loading days. Variations in. calibre 
oul^’’ a^ect, as regards the muzzleloader, ’die -wadding. Within limits, 
^ ony spo.n’lng injw'der and any size of shot was. suitabl^^'or any sporting. 
■ g?m. 'Tfee possession of .a wad punch id' the size to suit liis gun eii.abled 
Ji> c*«; -his- for which old hats (“hats with-' 
A’ G:, was accepted 
. 5 ^-^ .y.-:.vT;‘j -•• '”''^■2^, charge in a cartridge 
^::ixprshk m ^erv^ ^ %TeSXt BteptOWmdS 
ih^ hi^rs mw of the 15 bore 
"iX^r r <^mmn in Ignition, and the rapidity 
of loading b^d h4tm-mum> by the ‘fashion of using a heavy loading 
rod, -imug on a liab attached to; a button on the coat, -in place • 
of the ramrc'd which fe4«f sst eacSi shot to be taken from its place undir. 
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