With this intention, I had brought, in addition to the rope, a bundle of candles, meaning to use them as a torch; also my double-barreled shotgun.

During the whole of the examination, I got Wentworth to stand guard with his loaded shotgun; and I was very particular that we were never caught there after dusk.

The three-barrelled gun, combining a double shotgun and a rifle, is an excellent weapon, and it is particularly valuable for the collector of natural-history specimens.

So accustomed have some old loons become to being fired at and missed by Indians using the old-fashioned flintlock shotgun, which makes such a flash when fired, that they just barely keep out of range.

Carronades were on the principle of a gigantic shotgun, firing masses of bullets with great effect at very short rangesless than that of a long musket-shot, then reckoned at two hundred yards.

As regards arms, a good plain 12-bore shotgun with a 30-30 rifle- barrel underneath the others is the best weapon to have constantly in one's hand in the South American forests, where big game is rare and yet may at any time come in one's path.

"Once somebody stole an automatic shotgun.

I was just dreaming of what great things I meant to do with that splendid repeating shotgun.

"Why, when we were about it we ought to have demanded that they return Bluff's dandy, repeating shotgun," said Will.