Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting: With Explanatory Plates and WoodcutsPeter Hawker, Peter William Lanoe Hawker |
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Page xvii
... Copper Side Primer • Arrival from the Longparish hills , into the valley , for the last hour's shooting on the 1st of September ; with double - mounted Markers , and other Assistants Destructive Trolling Tackle , for Trout , & c ...
... Copper Side Primer • Arrival from the Longparish hills , into the valley , for the last hour's shooting on the 1st of September ; with double - mounted Markers , and other Assistants Destructive Trolling Tackle , for Trout , & c ...
Page xviii
... Copper Thowl for ditto Water - bird's - eye view of ditto " end on " " · Commencement of a Cripple - chase , after firing 2lbs . of Shot into a Skein of Brent Geese , and two Wild Swans ; with Boats , Dogs , wounded Curlew , dead Coot ...
... Copper Thowl for ditto Water - bird's - eye view of ditto " end on " " · Commencement of a Cripple - chase , after firing 2lbs . of Shot into a Skein of Brent Geese , and two Wild Swans ; with Boats , Dogs , wounded Curlew , dead Coot ...
Page xx
... Copper Caps Cap - chargers · Copper Primers ; or Tubes Westley Richards's Brass Primer Side - primers Improved Ignition Tube - charger The Side - Nail The Dissection Cleaning . • · . Directions to be observed in using Detonating Guns ...
... Copper Caps Cap - chargers · Copper Primers ; or Tubes Westley Richards's Brass Primer Side - primers Improved Ignition Tube - charger The Side - Nail The Dissection Cleaning . • · . Directions to be observed in using Detonating Guns ...
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... copper caps . It may , perhaps , be thought bad taste to speak of workmen but I like to do justice to the subs as well as to the commander ; and particularly as some of the master - gunmakers are directed by such men as these , who ...
... copper caps . It may , perhaps , be thought bad taste to speak of workmen but I like to do justice to the subs as well as to the commander ; and particularly as some of the master - gunmakers are directed by such men as these , who ...
Page 42
... copper cap fires so quick as to drive the powder in the centre hole through the charge before it is ignited , and consequently makes the gun recoil , and shoot weaker than the common plug . The chamber plug , No. 2 , has the advantage.
... copper cap fires so quick as to drive the powder in the centre hole through the charge before it is ignited , and consequently makes the gun recoil , and shoot weaker than the common plug . The chamber plug , No. 2 , has the advantage.
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