RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1820s]. Shot [Notes on shooting]. CUL-DAR91.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker 11.2008, edited by John van Wyhe. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'.
With thanks to Dig Hadoke for advice on powder measurements.
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Shot
Recommended. strongly No. 7
Number of pellets to 1 oz. (of Maltby shot is 280
Get. "Mantons dealer punch."
Take an oz + 1/2 of shot. fill = quantity of powder
Powder [1 dram] + 1/2 of [1 dram] :+ 1/2 g shot
Never take down your gun. when once up
One or two feet before a bird at 60 yard
Game Laws
Certificate shooting without 20£
Without qualification 5£
{ No common person or gamekeeper can demand your certificate without producing his own
Penalty for killing game out of season 20£ or not so than 10
An unqualified person can only be convicted once in a day
If a person go after game he can be fined
{ A person with neither qual: [qualification] or lic: [license] may carry a gun so that he does not destroy game
[2]
{Information relative to game laws must be brought on in three months
Guns and Shooting
Guns and Shooting] written upside down from other entries on the page, not in Darwin's hand.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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