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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... MEANS OF CONVEYING PUNTS , & c . OVER LAND Four - Wheel Truck for large Punts . SHOOTING WILDFOWL ON A RIVER , & c . · • 445 446 447 • 447 448 · 449 451 . 453 GENERAL ADVICE FOR THE HEALTH AND COM- FORT OF A YOUNG SPORTSMAN • • 456 ...
... MEANS OF CONVEYING PUNTS , & c . OVER LAND Four - Wheel Truck for large Punts . SHOOTING WILDFOWL ON A RIVER , & c . · • 445 446 447 • 447 448 · 449 451 . 453 GENERAL ADVICE FOR THE HEALTH AND COM- FORT OF A YOUNG SPORTSMAN • • 456 ...
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... means of making a tolerable dish out of the most humble materials Interspersed occasionally with a little Advice to the very Young Sportsman , on more general subjects . • 474 ALPHABETICAL LIST of the London Gunmakers for 1859 . 478 ...
... means of making a tolerable dish out of the most humble materials Interspersed occasionally with a little Advice to the very Young Sportsman , on more general subjects . • 474 ALPHABETICAL LIST of the London Gunmakers for 1859 . 478 ...
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... means , get close shooting combined with strength . This is the reason why long barrels may be made to shoot further than short ones . Thus the shot has friction by being forced through the cylinder , and is then gradu- ally relieved ...
... means , get close shooting combined with strength . This is the reason why long barrels may be made to shoot further than short ones . Thus the shot has friction by being forced through the cylinder , and is then gradu- ally relieved ...
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... means of unavoidably being obliged to reduce the metal after joining it , the barrel , when sent home , was scarcely 3 lbs . heavier than before . I then shot the gun about twenty rounds , and the average was , 1st sheet . 46 12th sheet ...
... means of unavoidably being obliged to reduce the metal after joining it , the barrel , when sent home , was scarcely 3 lbs . heavier than before . I then shot the gun about twenty rounds , and the average was , 1st sheet . 46 12th sheet ...
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... means of being fired , some- times on water as smooth as a looking - glass , give a decided evidence of all the effects that are produced in gunnery . With regard to elevation in proportion to length , the late General Shrapnell ...
... means of being fired , some- times on water as smooth as a looking - glass , give a decided evidence of all the effects that are produced in gunnery . With regard to elevation in proportion to length , the late General Shrapnell ...
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