A POWERFUL WEAPON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1056, 2 June 1910, Page 23

A POWERFUL WEAPON.

They were examining an oldfashioned shotgun of murderous build. It looked as if it would be an effective weapon against anything short of an elephant, and its owner .was boasting, with that scorn of fact which is allowed the successful hunter, of its power. “Doesn’t it kick like anything?” asked one. “ Oh, yes, it kicks some,” said the proprietor, “ but that’s the beauty of it. Why, once I shot at a grizzly that was charging me- I missed him, and on he came- If it had not been that the gun kicked me so far that I had time to reload, I shouldn’t have been here to tell the story.”