half-magazine

Updated: June 18, 2025

A best grade, 45-90, half-magazine Winchester it was, fitted with shot-gun stock and Lyman sights, and bearing a gleaming silver plate, on which was prettily lettered: Underneath was engraved a miniature pine, its trunk bearing three sets of initials.

Isabel Hornibrook - Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods

"By the time that Tom had fired three shots Jim came up and I told the former to hand over the rifle and let his brother try. Quite readily he did so. Of course, there were only two cartridges left in the gun, for it was a half-magazine, but Jim expected to take the third shot with his own rifle.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters