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"Possibly he is a gentleman in disguise, best disguise I ever saw, and in that case I can call him out. You'll act for me, old man, of course?" "Certainly," laughed Christie; "but you lose sight of the fact that, as the challenged party, he will have the choice of weapons. Suppose he should select hunting-rifles at one hundred paces?" "Horrible!" exclaimed Bullen.
Most of them have hunting-rifles, and are dead shots," continued the colonel. "I shall not object to your marching your company over here, though I think I can handle the enemy alone; but you must use your own judgment," added the captain. "I would rather fight the battle over here than in the town; and I shall bring my men, and put them under your command, Captain Gordon.
Common hunting-rifles were bored out to carry a Minié ball, twenty to the pound, and sword-bayonets fitted to them. One entire brigade of Tennesseans, under General Wm. H. Carroll, was armed with these guns. When recovering from sickness at Nashville, I spent hours of investigation in the base of the capitol, used as an armory, where an immense amount of this work had been done.
English makers have experimented somewhat on the rifling of barrels, but with no results which compare with those shown by the improved Kentucky. English hunting-rifles, and all military rifles, are made with complete disregard of the law of relation between the weights of ball and barrel.
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