Covert and Field Sport (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Covert and Field Sport

A 14-bore gun was generally used. At a later period sportsmen had taken advantage of the reduc tion in length of barrel to try larger bores, for Mr. Lemon, 'the most able park and gamekeeper, ' who wrote an undated tract on shooting during the later years of the century, tells us that there is 'not the utility in a wide bore some sportsmen use, ' and it should not exceed 'the size called fifteens, ' the barrel not more than thirty-eight inches long.

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