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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... weather ) • Shooting Pheasants , & c . ( with a few directions to the inex- perienced , for recovering their own Game , if unhandsomely driven from them ; Shooting in Covert , & c . ) . Cock Shooting . • 171 172 176 177 to 180 Snipe ...
... weather ) • Shooting Pheasants , & c . ( with a few directions to the inex- perienced , for recovering their own Game , if unhandsomely driven from them ; Shooting in Covert , & c . ) . Cock Shooting . • 171 172 176 177 to 180 Snipe ...
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... Weather • • 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 ...
... Weather • • 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 ...
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... weather . By the foregoing plan , I have found out many a gun- maker's blunder ; and I am therefore serving all who know their trade by publishing it , because it may be the means of proving first - rate from inferior work in the most ...
... weather . By the foregoing plan , I have found out many a gun- maker's blunder ; and I am therefore serving all who know their trade by publishing it , because it may be the means of proving first - rate from inferior work in the most ...
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... weather . After dismissing everything concerning the flint - lock , I shall treat exclusively on " detonaters . " SPRINGS.If the mainspring be too strong , in proportion to that of the hammer , the cock is often broken for want of ...
... weather . After dismissing everything concerning the flint - lock , I shall treat exclusively on " detonaters . " SPRINGS.If the mainspring be too strong , in proportion to that of the hammer , the cock is often broken for want of ...
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... weather , admits of coarse pow- der , that will kill further than fine , and will defy such damp weather as would put a stop to all shooting with that fine powder which ( to insure ignition through a long communication ) you are obliged ...
... weather , admits of coarse pow- der , that will kill further than fine , and will defy such damp weather as would put a stop to all shooting with that fine powder which ( to insure ignition through a long communication ) you are obliged ...
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