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Excerpt from American Small Arms: A Veritable Encyclopedia of Knowledge for Sportsmen and Military Men, Illustrated With Five Hundred EngravingsIt is doubtful at what time guns were first used as sporting arms, but early French and Italian works seem to indicate the close of the 14th cen tury. We find a curious illustration in an old manuscript, entitled, Ye Gonne and How to Use It, dated 1446. This curious sketch is evidently a caricature, but it is sufficient to show that all firearms were used for game shooting in the early part of the 1sth century. We have notices of the same in several records of that century, and by the close of the 16th century the gun seems to have become so general a sporting weapon as to necessitate special regulations in several European countries. About 1580, an Italian work in forms us, shooting at birds ¿ying and animals in motion was first practiced, but this could not have been to any great extent. It was not until the close of the 18th century that shooting on the wing became at all common. Since that time it has been so universally practiced as to make shooting at any fixed object with a shot-gun unsportsmanlike. The well - balanced and light guns made by the crack gunsmiths of the early part of the last century greatly favored snap-shooting, and many of the sportsmen of those days, if they did not make such large bags as those of to-day, enjoyed sport into a good old age, and were hale and hearty to the last.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.