The great gaomaker, Joe Manton, and Col, Hawker were personal fri and the practical fic constraction of his guns, Ao.
jomaker, Pardey, once sid Iking with his customers he invariably learnt something new about a gun, Col. Hawker experienced as mach in the use of a gun as did Manton in the construction, and the experience of both being fully utilized gan was produced unrivalled in fi shooting capacity. To nam the gunmakers since Manton's day, I would mention Pardey, Greener, Holland, snd Lancaster, of England, and Fox, and Remington, of America. A gan made by either of the makers named wold usually prove satisfactory to the fastidious shooter, though the years number three ra of a century since the death of hip atill commands the highest praise.
Col. Hawker was a sportsman as distinguished from a slaughterer of gnome. His grand total of fifty-one years of sport was only 17, 753 head, whereas in twenty-nine years Lord de Gray killed over 300,000. Bot when Col, Hawker was shooting he was not beat preserves of the country, 86 Lord de Gray, and be ased mostly Aint lock gun, the sim of which at Aying birds is more difficult to gange than that of the percussion or breechloader. Col. Hawker did his shooting between 1802 and 1853, and Lord de
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