ten-bore

He walked down through the pines and the turkey came out and started to fly across the valley, offering me a beautiful side shot at about thirty-five yards—just the distance for my ten-bore.

A Turkey Hunt at Pine Knot 1919

The General, his feet firmly planted, had unlimbered a huge ten-bore shotgun, so as to be ready for anything.

The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909

But such light as there was fell upon his face as he peered eagerly over and round the rock, and glinted down the barrels of the double ten-bore gun which he held across his knee.

Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The small arms consisted of a couple of heavy ten-bore elephant guns carrying three-ounce melinite shells; a dozen rifles and fowling-pieces of different makes of which three, a single and a double-barrelled rifle and a double-barrelled shot-gun, belonged to her Ladyship, as well as a dainty brace of revolvers, one of half a dozen braces of various calibres which completed the minor armament of the _Astronef_.

A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

He walked down through the pines and the turkey came out and started to fly across the valley, offering me a beautiful side shot at about thirty-five yards ” just the distance for my ten-bore.

Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

And he can't use his pardner's cartridges, for I gave that fellow a twelve-bore gun and his is a ten-bore. "

The Associate Hermits Frank Richard Stockton 1868