YOUNG REPEATING SHOT GUN.
This arin, the invention of Charles A. Young, the well-known and popu lar trap shooter, is a single barrel, two shot gun without a magazine, designed for target and live bird shooting. and made to shoot nitro powders. It is hammer less, and made with a rib which enables the shooter to more easily and clearly line up the gun by inakimf a stright line of sight. It is a take down, and has no extra length on account of the shell carrier. It has a solid breech block containing a groove large enough to admit the end of the barrel, making it absolutely safe. The action of the gun is simple and positive, very easy to operate and shoots any length of shells from 2;,.! to 3 inches.
To assemble the gun, place the butt of the stock under the right arm, grasp the stock at the pistol grip and put the forefinger over the safety finger slide that projects under the breech block in front of the trigger guard. To assemble the gun if it is not cocked, it is only necessary to slide it together.
To take the gun down, move the barrel out about one and one-half inches from the breech block and take the thumb of the left hand and press down on the front piece of the cocking rod and disconnect the same. Then, with the front fin ger of the right hand, push up the latch lever and hold this latch up until the bar rel is removed.
In order to use this gun as a two shot gun, when the gun is closed, push backward on the safety button on the bottom of the breech block. This releases the carrier and permits it to come up and the shell is placed in the carrier and pushed down until the shell catches tinder the latch, which holds the shell down and the second load is placed in the barrel; the gun is closed and the shells are in the proper position. After the first shell is discharged, with the left hand push the barrel forward, giving it full stroke, then brim; the same back and it is ready for the second shot.
In placing thc shell in the carrier, take the same between the thumb and mid dle ling,er, front finger on top of the shell ; slant the shell down and press back OH the same. This will put the shell tinder the little finger which holds the shell in the carrier; then, if the front finger is pressed down and pulled back, the shell will go under the latch and remain down.
For trap shooting, where one shot is required only, close the gun, push for ward on the safety button on the bottom of the breech block and this holds the carrier down and, for the single shot, place the shell in the barrel.
\\hen the gun is closed, the barrel cannot he moved forward until the gun is fired or the safety finger slide in front of the guard pulled back. If the 1.;tin is
loaded and it is desired to remove the shell withont discharging the same, mill back on the safety linger in front of the guard and the gun open and the shell eau be removed.
Under the foregoing alphabetical arrangement appears the most prominent and generally well known varieties of the several Classes of Small Arms. A description of all varieties of all classes, aggregating several thousand in number, is in course of preparation, and will be issued in supplemental form, under the following headings : BREECH-LOADING GUNS—The barrel sliding forward ; the barrel tilting up at the breech ; the barrel tilting up at the muzzle, the barrel hinged to the stock ; the barrel swinging laterally on a vertical pin ; the barrrel ro tating on a parallel pin ; the breech-block drawn back by hand or lever ; the breech block swinging upward and forward ; the breech-block swinging laterally for ward ; the breech-block swinging backward and downward ; the breech-block swinging on a center or trunnions; the breech-block swinging upward and back ward; the breech-block swinging laterally backward ; the breech-block swinging downward and backward; the breech-block swinging on a longitudinal pin or hinge; the breech-block sliding vertically in a mortise; the breech-block sliding laterally in a mortise ; faucet breech-block (chambered) ; faucet breech-block with a chamber in front ; rotating sleeve on the barrel ; gas operated and recoil operated. MAGAZINE GUNs—The barrel sliding forward; the barrrel tilting upwards at the breech ; the barrel tilting up at the muzzle ; the barrel hinged to the stock ; the bar rel swinging laterally on a vertical pin ; the barrel rotating on a parallel pin ; longi tudinally reciprocating breech-bolt (spring-impelled firing-pin). Sante with fir ing-pin impelled by a rotating hammer ; the breech-block swinging upward and forward; the breech-block swinging laterally forward ; the breech-block swinging backward and downward; the breech-block swinging on a center or trunnions; the breech-block swinging upward and backward ; the breech-block swinging later ally backward ; the breech-block swinging downward and backward ; the breech block swinging on a longitudinal pin or lunge; the breech-block sliding vertically in a mortise ; the breech-block sliding laterally in a mortise; faucet breech-block (chambered) ; rotating carrier filled from a fixed magazine and discharged in the carrier ; rotating carrier. MUzzLE-LOADERS. PISTOLS. REVOLVERS—Muzzle loading, breech-loading.