GUNS, RIFLES, AND AMMUNITION. 
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The best gun for all-round use is a 12 bore cylinder, weight, with 30 inch 
barrels 6| lbs,, with ^9 inch barrels 6 lbs. 10 oz., and with 28 inch barrels 
64 lbs. Thirty inch barrels are the best length for a 12 bore. A well bored 
cylinder gun should make with No. 6 shot, 1£ oz., an even pattern of about 130 
on a 30 inch circle at forty yards range, and should shoot a spherical ball into a 
six inch ball at sixty yards, loaded with three drams of No. 6 B. P. with lf F oz. 
of No. 5 shot the above should make a pattern of about 115, and with 1£ oz. of 
No. 4 a pattern of about 100. For general use No. 6 is the best size shot to use, 
but for wild fowl, monaul and snow cock, No. 5 or No. 4 can be used to ad¬ 
vantage. For quail and snipe, one ounce of No. 8 is the best charge. 
A heavier 12 bore, about 74 lbs. to 7\ lbs. in weight, with 30 inch barrels, 
taking li to 1J ounce of shot, choke bore, is useful for wild fowl shooting only 
and recommended by Sir Ralph Payne Gall wey in preference to a larger bore 
