Popular science monthly . choose, becauseit is not quite adequate for the skilledshot. Next in price and most formidablein efficiency is the repeating shotgun ofvarious makes. Thousands of them arein the hands of the most skilled trap-shots in the coimtry. The weapon is notquite so simple for the beginner tohandle as the double-barrel gun, and thereach to the slide-handle, b>- which thegun is operated, is a liit long for theshort-armed man. The cost in plainqualit> runs less than twenty-fi\e guns with checked fore-stock or slidehandle and checked grip, the cost isabout thirty-
Popular science monthly . choose, becauseit is not quite adequate for the skilledshot. Next in price and most formidablein efficiency is the repeating shotgun ofvarious makes. Thousands of them arein the hands of the most skilled trap-shots in the coimtry. The weapon is notquite so simple for the beginner tohandle as the double-barrel gun, and thereach to the slide-handle, b>- which thegun is operated, is a liit long for theshort-armed man. The cost in plainqualit> runs less than twenty-fi\e guns with checked fore-stock or slidehandle and checked grip, the cost isabout thirty-five dollars. No betterweapon is made for breaking the birds,but some people find that they shootbetter with the double barrel. Does ourchoice fall on the repeating shotgun,then it must have barrel no shorterthan thirty inches, stock with dropor crook from the line of the barrel nomore than one and one-half inches atthe comb and two to two and one-quarter inches at the heel, which is the 421 422 Popular Science MontJiIi/. Waiting for the Boyto Release the Bird
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