Our battery consisted of:
Three 12-bore rifles.
Two double-barrelled hammerless ejecting .500 Expresses.
One .35 Winchester.
Two small .22 Winchesters.
One single-barrel .350.
One 410 bore collector’s gun.
A regular olla podrida in rifles.
My uncle selected these from his armoury as being the ones of all others he would feel safest in sending us out with. There may, in the opinion of many, be much more suitable ones for women to use, but, speaking as one who had the using of them, I must say I think the old shikari did the right thing, and if I went again the same rifles would accompany me.
My uncle is a small man, with a shortish arm, and therefore his reach about equalled ours, and his rifles might have been made for us.