Guns and gunning . CHAPTER VI A Brief Historyof Firearms WHEN man first inhabited the earth, andwild animals were numerous, very rudemethods of hunting proved time passed, and men increased, game was moredifficult to approach and capture, and the need ofa weapon that would kill at a distance, was some pre-historic genius, from a strong staffand a piece of sinew, made the bow. Others found that they could hurl rocks to agreat distance by placing them in a shallow pouchat the end of two thongs; and thus they made thesling. But it was the discovery of gunpowder inthe XlVth
Guns and gunning . CHAPTER VI A Brief Historyof Firearms WHEN man first inhabited the earth, andwild animals were numerous, very rudemethods of hunting proved time passed, and men increased, game was moredifficult to approach and capture, and the need ofa weapon that would kill at a distance, was some pre-historic genius, from a strong staffand a piece of sinew, made the bow. Others found that they could hurl rocks to agreat distance by placing them in a shallow pouchat the end of two thongs; and thus they made thesling. But it was the discovery of gunpowder inthe XlVth century, that sounded the knell of thespear and the bow, and made the deadly firearmsof modern times possible. But as it was with the bow, so it was with thegun. Game became more difficult to approach,and wars demanded improved weapons; until to-day we have guns that kill further than the eye cansight the mark, and that shoot with unnecessary rapidity. 69
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