Have you had any practice ?" "Not with this gun, sir.

I used, sometimes, to practise shooting at gulls with a musket, on board the cutter my father commanded; and I got to be a fair shot with it." "Then you ought to be able to do good work, with such a piece as that.
What is in the other case?
"Ah! That's a beauty, too," he said, as he examined the double-barrelled gun.

"Made extra strong and heavy, I see, so as to carry bullets.

You'll find your shoulder ache, at first; but you'll get accustomed to it, in time.

I'm always in favour of heavy barrels.
They shoot stronger and straighter than your light guns, are not so liable to get bent or bruised, if a stupid servant drops one across a stone; and, after all, two or three pounds difference in weight does not make any material difference, when you're accustomed to it.
Although, I grant, a heavy gun does not come quite so quickly up to the shoulder, for a snap shot." "Now, Peters," Charlie said, "you take the double barrel.