. The breech-loader and how to use it . 175 pellets, at 40yards; same charge and conditions, but brasscases, the pattern was 225. For particulars of the shooting powers of otherlarge-bore guns and of their use, sportsmen willnot hesitate to procure such books as The Gunand its Development, the volume Moor andMarsh, of the Badminton Library, and Wild-fowling in Ireland, by Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey. With respect to lo-bores, their use is, as alreadystated, very circumscribed, and sportsmen mayjudge of their utility for any particular purposeby comparing the following figures with thosegiven for 1
. The breech-loader and how to use it . 175 pellets, at 40yards; same charge and conditions, but brasscases, the pattern was 225. For particulars of the shooting powers of otherlarge-bore guns and of their use, sportsmen willnot hesitate to procure such books as The Gunand its Development, the volume Moor andMarsh, of the Badminton Library, and Wild-fowling in Ireland, by Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey. With respect to lo-bores, their use is, as alreadystated, very circumscribed, and sportsmen mayjudge of their utility for any particular purposeby comparing the following figures with thosegiven for 12 and smaller bores. The lo-bore duck-gun full-choked, weighing S\lbs. and over, will make a pattern of 250 in a thirty-inch circle at forty yards, with 4 drams of powderand IJ oz. to if oz. of No. 6 shot. With 4^ drams, and i\ ozs. of No. 2 shot,pattern in 30-inch at 40 yards, 160 pellets ; pene-tration, 25 sheets of strawboard. Same charge,distance, etc., but No. i shot, pattern 135, pene-tration 31 sheets of strawboard. At 60 yards. o o o Breech-Loader, and How to Use It. 129 No. 4 shot, the pattern should average 65, andpenetration be 18 sheets; with No. i shot, thepattern 50, the penetration, 26 sheets. THE PIGEON-GUN. This is the most powerful variety of the i2-boregun ; it must be so built as to meet the rules ofthe chief clubs; in England the bore must not belarger than 12, nor the gun heavier than 81bs.; thecharge to be used must not exceed four drams ofpowder and i\ ounces of shot. On the Continentand in America lo-bores are allowed, but there isusually some restriction as to charge. The pigeon-gun may be made with hammers or hammerless,preferably the latter. It should 7iot have a triggerbolting safety, and an automatic trigger safety forthis species of gun is the greatest mistake that canbe made. The shooting required will in some measuredepend upon the distance at which the user isgenerally placed, it being required to have thelargest possible killing circle at one
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