He had himself begged the gunmaker to say little to anyone about his shooting.
But now it is clear, from what you say, that it is most improbable he would have a bullet about him, and unless it can be proved that he obtained one from a gunmaker or otherwise, it is a very strong point in his favour.
After three months the gunmaker no longer accompanied Frank to his shooting-gallery.
I may fearlessly point to the fact that throughout the whole breadth of England every gunmaker is a copyist of my patterns.
She raised it quickly to her shoulder, glanced for a brief instant along the barrel, and the white mark at the end of the gallery was speckled like a currant dumpling, while the gunmaker smiled with satisfaction.
The gunmaker was ready with the charged guns, and he had led them into a long gallery with targets, where the lady astounded the man by her ability and knowledge of what a gun ought to be.
So that day was devoted to selecting guns, Lady O'Hara handling and testing the various pieces in a way that made the gunmaker open his eyes and Nic stare.
If you want to make the best possible shooting with it and to make your lessons as pleasant and as easy as possible, have as light a trigger-pull as your gunmaker (not an ironmonger who sells firearms) recommends.
When you have learnt the mechanism from the gunmaker you can begin practising shooting with the pistol.
This is the way most improvements are evolved, the shooter constantly testing the invention and pointing out its faults to the gunmaker who alters till the thing works well.
Any one taking up automatic-pistol shooting seriously should go to a gunmaker and learn all about its mechanism so that he will know what is wrong when the pistol refuses to operate.
It took me years before I found a gunmaker who would try to make a rifle on the lines I consider desirable for big-game shooting.
Get the gunmaker to instruct you thoroughly in the mechanism of any automatic you buy and especially what parts need special attention to prevent its jamming.
Most people buy an automatic, get the gunmaker to load it for them, and put it in a drawer or their pocket, and keep it like that for years, or worse, leave it lying about loaded.
If you get the gunmaker to render it impossible to fire it, even if loaded, so much the better.
What I want to impress is, that from the very beginning, you should not worry yourself with the sights you find on pistols; get your gunmaker to put on duelling pistol sights before you begin to learn.
Humble as I stand here, there was a time, and not so long ago, when I could write as many figures on a cheque as any gunmaker in Birmingham.
The old gunmaker made no attempt to justify himself, but he muttered some few hoarse words, and continued to cling to the treasure.
Raffles Haw listened politely, bowed, smiled, but never showed the slightest inclination to restore the querulous old gunmaker to his pedestal.
Half-leading and half-dragging him they managed between them to convey the old gunmaker away from the scene of his disaster, and to lodge him for the night in a place of safety.
How many times the "Gunmaker of Moscow" was repeated in the Ledger, heaven knows.
Answer a straight question, ye old rooters between a thousand miles of muslin lids--would you have been willing to miss "The Gunmaker of Moscow" back yonder in the green days of say forty years ago?
In the presence of the seconds these are loaded by the gunmaker and put into a case, which is then sealed.
Here again is a characteristic complaint that 'the leading idea of the gunmaker nowadays is to turn out a hundred thousand guns of one particular pattern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunmaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
