. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Shot-Gini. 769 The Lefaucheux ^un is shown Ix-low. In the Icft-haml barrel is a cartridge, the pin of which fits in a recess cut in the top of the breech. This pin is struck by the hammer and driven into the fuhninate held in the bottom of a little brass cup in the center of the base of the cartridge. When the gun is closed, the barrels fit to the " standing-breech.'" When tin- ievi-r, shown under the " breech-action,&q
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Shot-Gini. 769 The Lefaucheux ^un is shown Ix-low. In the Icft-haml barrel is a cartridge, the pin of which fits in a recess cut in the top of the breech. This pin is struck by the hammer and driven into the fuhninate held in the bottom of a little brass cup in the center of the base of the cartridge. When the gun is closed, the barrels fit to the " standing-breech.'" When tin- ievi-r, shown under the " breech-action," is turned till it comes in line with the of the gun,. 'Al X S it throws a bolt into the " lump " attachetl to the undi^rside of the bar- rels, and thus locks the breech-end of the barrels to the breech action The lump and the slot into which the bolt fit are shown separ; rely at S. The down-drop action of the barrels on opening the gun, and the mode of securing them to the breech-action by a bolt working in a lump fixed to the underside of the barrels, seen in Lefaucheux's first breech-loader, has been universally adopted by gunmakers since his gun appeared in 1836. It has been greatly improved in the details of mechanism, but the general plan riMuains the same. The weakness in the locking of his barrels to the breech-action was soon found out, and has been remedied by numerous plans in which double and even triple bolts, further removed than his from thi' hinge-joint, have been used. The mechanisms invented for opening and for locking breech- loaders are so numerous, and the majority of them accomplished the object so perfectly, that one cannot fail to get a trustworthy gun if ordered of any maker of established reputation. In selecting as types two breech-loaders, one with hammers, the other hammerless, to illus- trate our remarks on the gun, we wish it distinctly understood that thereby we do not intend to convey the impressi
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