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slightly fcidhev than in this country* 3?o avoid seen extra tax levy 
smokeless powder stalls wow* ohipijod in loaded with powder anly^and 
were ahorged tidth shaft as thoy wa sold* Black yowls# mm in almost 
a 
universal use* Uoot hunters flavor ad heavy sixes of shot oo that 
ordinary loads wore ebar<jed with shot ranging from Bo* 4 to 8 B* 
Oountry&m not satisfied with those frequsRitly out load alugo trm 
three sixteenths to a quarter of m inch in diameter and lahoriouoiy 
haflxnored them until they were round* '2cm single barrelled shotgun 
m& the most oauraon fire am used* In the Ormoo 1 oaw old single 
shot *4&~*fQ rifles that my well have soon ssrvlft* in the old days 
of buffalo on our am won tom frontier* Occasionally a peon had 
made a "pistol* from one of these rifles by sawing off the barrel 
six inches from the brooch end out ting off the ©took behind the triggers 
1 was told that these weapons did not worry straight for any distance 
but that they tmdo lots of uoiset 
