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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... objectionable than swelling its dimensions to an unreasonable size , by relating incidents that possibly never occurred , or commencing a system of piracy on other authors , which nothing should induce him xii PREFACE TO.
... objectionable than swelling its dimensions to an unreasonable size , by relating incidents that possibly never occurred , or commencing a system of piracy on other authors , which nothing should induce him xii PREFACE TO.
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... never please my customers , because they look so gummy in the hands of a gentleman . " Again , with regard to the stocks , nearly all the trade make their guns inclining to point downwards , rather than 8 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
... never please my customers , because they look so gummy in the hands of a gentleman . " Again , with regard to the stocks , nearly all the trade make their guns inclining to point downwards , rather than 8 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
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... never will receive a gun in a finished state , until the workmen have completed all the little alterations that are generally required , even from the best of makers . The polish and ornament have nothing to do with the essen- tial ...
... never will receive a gun in a finished state , until the workmen have completed all the little alterations that are generally required , even from the best of makers . The polish and ornament have nothing to do with the essen- tial ...
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... never yet found them to do , you can never shoot so well with them , because they bring the two ends of the barrel so near together as to give you a deceptive aim . Cannons are bored a cylinder , because they are gene- rally used for ...
... never yet found them to do , you can never shoot so well with them , because they bring the two ends of the barrel so near together as to give you a deceptive aim . Cannons are bored a cylinder , because they are gene- rally used for ...
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... never to divulge , much less to publish , the secret . But as the little knowledge I possess has been acquired by my own discovery , and proved by ex- periments to be correct , it becomes my own property ; and as such therefore I have ...
... never to divulge , much less to publish , the secret . But as the little knowledge I possess has been acquired by my own discovery , and proved by ex- periments to be correct , it becomes my own property ; and as such therefore I have ...
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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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