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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... least explained by other authors . So much , indeed , has been published by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that little remains to be said on the subject . The pursuit of game is already too well known to ...
... least explained by other authors . So much , indeed , has been published by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that little remains to be said on the subject . The pursuit of game is already too well known to ...
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... least a few years , and therefore inflicted on my publishers treble doses of copies ; or , seriously speaking , I gave very large impressions of the seventh , eighth , and also ninth editions . About four years and a half had elapsed ...
... least a few years , and therefore inflicted on my publishers treble doses of copies ; or , seriously speaking , I gave very large impressions of the seventh , eighth , and also ninth editions . About four years and a half had elapsed ...
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... least to be despised , because flint - guns have always shot better , and recoiled less than detonaters , and for this reason I was one of the few persons who upheld them to the very last . There is now , however , one , and only one ...
... least to be despised , because flint - guns have always shot better , and recoiled less than detonaters , and for this reason I was one of the few persons who upheld them to the very last . There is now , however , one , and only one ...
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... least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? Because you may have two stocks as much alike as if cast in the same mould all the way to the breeching , and yet the barrels , by being sunk deeper in the wood , may point so much downwards as ...
... least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? Because you may have two stocks as much alike as if cast in the same mould all the way to the breeching , and yet the barrels , by being sunk deeper in the wood , may point so much downwards as ...
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... least those with caps ) were repeatedly missing fire ! This happens to be a self - primer , and the only one that I have ever yet seen that does not go slow . Two other kinds of self - primers were brought out by two great makers , and ...
... least those with caps ) were repeatedly missing fire ! This happens to be a self - primer , and the only one that I have ever yet seen that does not go slow . Two other kinds of self - primers were brought out by two great makers , and ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2012 |
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2016 |
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