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Calibre of shot-guns—The small-bore game gun, and what it will do—The 16-bore—The 16-bore—The standard calibre game gun—Miniature 12-bore guns—The sportswoman's gun—The pigeon or "trap" gun—Uniformity in shot—Testing at the target—Extra long cartridges for pigeon shooting—Shooting powers of the 12-bore with different loads—The 12-bore game gun—Facsimile patterns—Guns of reduced calibre—The "Vena Contracta"—Guns of odd sizes—Single-barrelled guns—Buckshot guns—Shot-guns as ball-guns—Mead shells; Macleod's rotating bullet—Spherical ball in choke-bores—And in cylinders—Large bores—Wild-fowling guns—Facsimile pattern made with a Greener 4-bore—Nitro-explosives in large-bore guns—Killing range of large calibres—Loading recommended—Breech-mechanisms for wild-fowling guns—Duck guns—Greener's hammerless far-killing duck gun—Diagram made with a 10-bore—The 12-bore as a wild-fowling gun—Punt guns