Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-22

tire charge of Mo- into nine inch ring at thirty yards, at fifteen yards into two inch circle. Well, finally got hold of an tfIndi- an gun" of twenty-four caliber, stocked to the muzzle, with flint lock as large and as slow as that on the old British Brown Bess, " but it was rattler to shoot It was equally good for ball, buckshot and small shot. I imagine that it must have been contracted at the muzZle for bullet shooting, and that con sequently it was in manner choke5ore. do know that a duck sitting on the water was not safe sixty yards of. In firing at ducks flying close to the surface of the water found, even with my late instructions, that at thirty yards the shot would strike many feet behind. I accordingly settled upon about five feet as the proper distance to hold ahead at thirty yards, and have never had gun in my hands since that did it's duty better at that range, and at all other ranges up to sixty yards, with a corresponding al- 1owance ahead. It was, however, quite use- less at muskrats in the dusk, as they had time to get two feet under water between the flash in the pan and the report. Now with my hammerless Greener, twelve bore, twen- NSsrds, with any number of shot up to No. 2, 6fS> best by holding on, and of course no standsM1 st the moment of pulling the trig- ger AflQnger distances hold ahead three, five and sen>pr even fifteen feet, according to range. .sss
 
 effective with small b1ckshot, SSG. I once shot a three-year-old buck at seyenty-6ve yards with 6 charge of nina grains of this size. three pellets having pierced the lungs and gone nearly through the animal. When l parted with the latter gun, which ex changed for a detonating pill gun, which I found great nuisance, although quicker than the flint, I bought another indian gun of the same kind, which threw shot closer even than the first one. was looking at the ground yesterday where tried this gun at target, and fired charge of BIB shot at board fence which once stood on the spot, every grain of which was confined to cir c1e of eighteen inches. I did not measure the distance at the time, but I did yesterday, thirty years after the shot was fired. It was across 8 street one hundred and twenty feet wide, @ few of which we have in Ottawa; consequently the distance was forty yards, the regulation distance for gun trials day.
 What mean by an Indian gun is the kind of smooth bore guns given as presents to the Indians long ago by the Imperial govern ment. The two had were each about thir- ty inches long in the barrel. I have seen and owned others of the same make and quality forty inches and upward in barrel, but the shorter kind were far the better guns. The trigger-pull was tremendous, l should say not less than eighteen pounds, the lock dreadfully clumsy and the stock very straight, with square heea plate; but after all the shooting qualities of those cheap old small -bores were of high order of excellence. A sporting friend with whom I had padded many a hundred ducks into camp had one of these Indian guns, with which I once saw him kill six teen swallows in succession without one miss with very small charges of BIB shot. The birds were not shot wantonly or to inn prove his shooting-that was as near perfec- tion as possible-but for the purpose of training young spaniel to fetch from the water; and may here remark that he never required another lesson. Brave old Tirol Many duek ha lowed ashore.