Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
The remaining question mark is probably the brand name of a gun. It sounds like "Anthonate". I don't know much about hunting, so I can't guess better than that.
"It’s very nice to use, it’s very soft on the shoulder, not like the ounce and eights we used to use before these were actually made compulsory."
 The load before was larger, it was one and one eights of an ounce, which probably led to a gun being not very much soft on the shoulder.