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Classification of sporting rifles—Large-bore rifles—Long-range sporting rifles—Weights of rifles—Varieties of the “Express” rifle—“Long-range expresses”—Col. Patterson on lion-hunting—Breech-mechanism for sporting rifles—Under-andover rifles—Best forms of grooving—Sights—Cartridges—Hollow bullets—Special properties—Lord Keane’s expanding bullet—Explosive shells—Steel-pointed bullet—Experiments with explosive shells—Explosive compound for shells—Rook and rabbit rifles—Accuracy and range of small-bore rifles—Rifled shot-guns and choke-bored rifles—Rifle and shot-guns—American pocket rifles—The Morris tube