What boxlock does the Princess use?
Sporting Life April 23, 1898
The Duchess of Bedford an Expert With the Shotgun
The Prince of Wales, Lord Walsingham and Lord de Gray are often described as our best small game shots. It is question able whether they will not before long have a formidable rival, so far as rabbits, hares and rocketing pheasants are concerned, in the person of one of the most graceful ladies in the land, the Duchess of Bedford.
At Charles Wood, in Bedfordshire, the other day a little group of people watched her grace bring down several high-flying pheasants in fine style, despite the failing and uncertain light of a November after noon. There are sportsmen as well as sportswomen whom you heartily desire to be separated from by a good hundred yards when a warm corner is being shot in a bad light, but the Duchess of Bedford is not among these. She shoots, not only with nerve and precision, but also with great care, and does not "follow" running or low-flying game, as some inexperienced and amateurish gunners are in the habit of doing, thereby covering half a dozen or more alarmed fellow sportsmen, and beaters with their gun barrels. The Duchess is eminently indeed a safe shot.
She has been shooting lately with a light double-barrel, 12-bore, which differs little, save in weight, from the ordinary sportsmans game gun.
