Show cylinder and choked barrel I 1 am acquainted with a gentle gentleman irta who has conceived the idea that the best all around gun is one weighing r seven even and a half pounds with right barrel a perfect cylinder and left barrel full choked cho ired so convinced was he that such a gun was the best for general gains gaine shooting that he ordered a colt gun 1 built b dilt thua for the present seasons shoot ing this thia gentleman claimed that by tha uso use of the cylinder barrel he could shoot WOO woodcock acock in tho the brush also ruffed grouse and have the left barrel for ion long s shot hot such buell as plover snipe or duck it is now several weeks since the bird season opened and shooting lids has been done with this gun almost every day this thia gun has been brej a long shot between forty and sixty yards has been taken and a bird W killed taff is nothing lila a 4 full choked gun to reach a bird at long rangel then ai at he opened the guri gun to insert a fresh cartridge would bei be heard these words great scotti ive shot the cylinder instead of the choked chaired barrell the sportsman still argues that tho full choked gun Is ia tho the proper gun grin for shots beyond twenty civo y yards ards but almost daily when shooting he be accidentally fires the wrong barrel and kills birds birda clean at forty yards and sometimes at a longer distance shooting and fishing |