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Updated: May 8, 2025
They were the old fashioned single-barrel kind, with butts like those of the pirates in a play, and they lay in a bed of faded red velvet surrounded by ramrods, bullet-moulds, a green pill-box labeled "G. D. Gun Caps," some scraps of wash leather, together with a copper powder-flask and a spoonful of bullets. The nipples were protected by little patches cut from an old kid glove.
Still I mean some day to buy a single-barrel, and wander with it as of old along the hedges, aware that if I am not skilful enough to bring down with the first shot I shall lose my game. It is surprising how confident of that one shot you may get after a while. On the one hand, it is necessary to be extremely keen; on the other, to be sure of your own self-control, not to fire uselessly.
We didn't have a single load of heavy shot with us. We're going up there to-morrow, and we want you to go with us. We'll go fixed for him, too. We'll have a couple of good dogs with us; I'll take my rifle; Bert will take father's heavy gun; and we'd like to have you take your single-barrel. If he gets a bullet and three loads of buckshot in his head, he'll not growl at us any more.
Jewell about a single-barrel breech-loader our house was controlling, and quoted it at $7.20, sixty days. "Is that the F. & W. gun?" he asked. "Yes, sir." "Why, Blissam quotes that at $7." The deuce he did! Yet he was the boy that didn't intend to cut. "Was his price net?" "No, two off, ten days." "Well, that brings them $6.86.
The gun he had told me to use was a single-barrel fowling-piece, an ancient converted flintlock, the stock made of an iron-hard black wood with silver mountings.
Starbuck, you ricolleck I told you I had that old-fashioned, single-barrel cap-an'-ball pistol. Here it is." He drew forth an old pistol. "Peters, I'd advise you to come after me with a mo' improved weepin." "Oh, I'll do that an' with help from off yander, when the time comes. I ain't atter you yit. I jest wanted to give you one mo' chance.
The gun itself can be built to an exquisite perfection lightness, handiness, workmanship, and performance of the very best. It is said that you can change from a single-barrel shot-gun to a sporting rifle and shoot with the rifle almost at once; while many who have been used to the slap-dash double cannot do anything for some time with a rifle.
He did not hunt, nor shoot he had the right, but never exercised it; though occasionally he was seen about the newly-sown fields with a single-barrel gun, firing at the birds that congregated in crowds. Neither would he allow his sons to shoot or hunt.
I started with some of my best men, and instead of a light single-barrel I carried my '577 rifle.
The long slender gun the old single-barrel came to the shoulder instinctively, without premeditation, and the snipe fell. Coming now to the brook, which was broad and bordered by a hedge on the opposite side, I held Orion's gun while he leaped over.
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