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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... observed in using Detonating Guns Loading • · Recipe for making Detonating Powder Mr. Joyce's - Anti - corrosive Percussion Powder • Shooting , difference in , between a Flint and a Detonator GUNS LOADING AT THE BREECH , OR BREECH ...
... observed in using Detonating Guns Loading • · Recipe for making Detonating Powder Mr. Joyce's - Anti - corrosive Percussion Powder • Shooting , difference in , between a Flint and a Detonator GUNS LOADING AT THE BREECH , OR BREECH ...
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... observe , as before , in answer to those who deprecate the idea of giving a good price for a gun , that the workmen employed by the first makers require wages and indulgence , in proportion to their skill in the respective branches ...
... observe , as before , in answer to those who deprecate the idea of giving a good price for a gun , that the workmen employed by the first makers require wages and indulgence , in proportion to their skill in the respective branches ...
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... observed , go easier and easier all the way out of it . This mode of boring is the best calculated for large wild ... observations about " lateral pressure , " I shall here subjoin a schedule , in order to show how were bored the five ...
... observed , go easier and easier all the way out of it . This mode of boring is the best calculated for large wild ... observations about " lateral pressure , " I shall here subjoin a schedule , in order to show how were bored the five ...
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... observe that my remarks here have been altered since publishing the earlier editions . The late Mr. Joseph Manton , who knew more about a gun than any man in Europe , assured me , after innumerable expe- riments , he proved that two ...
... observe that my remarks here have been altered since publishing the earlier editions . The late Mr. Joseph Manton , who knew more about a gun than any man in Europe , assured me , after innumerable expe- riments , he proved that two ...
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... observation in the clearest possible manner , with the same advantage that an astronomer , with his large telescope ... observations to that effect . But had they gone to the press , I should have been open to the criticism of every good ...
... observation in the clearest possible manner , with the same advantage that an astronomer , with his large telescope ... observations to that effect . But had they gone to the press , I should have been open to the criticism of every good ...
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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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