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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... scarcely discover it . How natural then is it , that many sporting authors should be so far deceived , as to fancy the best guns are bored a true cylinder to the very muzzle , and therefore argue in its favour ! This relief , has the ...
... scarcely discover it . How natural then is it , that many sporting authors should be so far deceived , as to fancy the best guns are bored a true cylinder to the very muzzle , and therefore argue in its favour ! This relief , has the ...
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... scarcely 3 lbs . heavier than before . I then shot the gun about twenty rounds , and the average was , 1st sheet . 46 12th sheet . 30 20th sheet . 20 by which it evidently appeared to me , that if the metal is disposed of in length , it ...
... scarcely 3 lbs . heavier than before . I then shot the gun about twenty rounds , and the average was , 1st sheet . 46 12th sheet . 30 20th sheet . 20 by which it evidently appeared to me , that if the metal is disposed of in length , it ...
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... scarcely be observed that there should not be a breath of wind when you do this . The water should be like a mirror . No better time than one of those fine butterfly - days that usually follow a night's pinching white frost ; and which ...
... scarcely be observed that there should not be a breath of wind when you do this . The water should be like a mirror . No better time than one of those fine butterfly - days that usually follow a night's pinching white frost ; and which ...
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... scarcely touch a feather , because the barrels dipped so much in mounting that the muzzle never came up to the mark . I made a carpenter saw off the end of the butt , and then put on a piece of wood which came well out at the toe ; then ...
... scarcely touch a feather , because the barrels dipped so much in mounting that the muzzle never came up to the mark . I made a carpenter saw off the end of the butt , and then put on a piece of wood which came well out at the toe ; then ...
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... scarcely visible ) is easily taken out and put in again.- Vide Sketches . LOCK . - Any comment on the perfection to which this part of a gun is now brought would be quite redundant . Notwithstanding , however , that almost every country ...
... scarcely visible ) is easily taken out and put in again.- Vide Sketches . LOCK . - Any comment on the perfection to which this part of a gun is now brought would be quite redundant . Notwithstanding , however , that almost every country ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 375 - Of three specimens from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length...