. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ged with sufficient ease to enable the bearer to kill a birdon the wing. These weapons, like many other articles, have gonethrough a regular series of improvements, until at last they havein the present age arrived at a state of perfection beyond which itis difficult to conceive any thing superior. Sportsmen should not hesitate between a doubtful and a superiorgun on account of a trifling expenditure, as it is a purchase thatis made only once or twice in a lifeti
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ged with sufficient ease to enable the bearer to kill a birdon the wing. These weapons, like many other articles, have gonethrough a regular series of improvements, until at last they havein the present age arrived at a state of perfection beyond which itis difficult to conceive any thing superior. Sportsmen should not hesitate between a doubtful and a superiorgun on account of a trifling expenditure, as it is a purchase thatis made only once or twice in a lifetime; and there is a certaindegree of comfort and pleasure in going to the field for a daysamusement with the assurance of handling a weapon which noordinary usage can injure, and that we have nothing to fear fromaccidents, which feeling of confidence richly repays us for all theunusual outlay. The saving of a few dollars in the purchase of a gun would illrepay a shooter for the loss of a hand by an explosion, or perhapsthe maiming of a friend or the death of a valuable dog by thegoing off of his gun, owing to poorly-made 462 LEWIS S AMEEICAN SPOKTSMAN.
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