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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... charge strong , has the effect of scattering and recoiling so much in a short barrel , that a certain sacrifice of power must be made . But in a long barrel , which ad- mits of greatly increasing the relief , the shot are kept without ...
... charge strong , has the effect of scattering and recoiling so much in a short barrel , that a certain sacrifice of power must be made . But in a long barrel , which ad- mits of greatly increasing the relief , the shot are kept without ...
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... charge . Now , however , they refuse to prove a barrel till after this reduction of the metal has been completed , and consequently the Birmingham barrels are much more to be depended on than they were . Formerly the rogues got all the ...
... charge . Now , however , they refuse to prove a barrel till after this reduction of the metal has been completed , and consequently the Birmingham barrels are much more to be depended on than they were . Formerly the rogues got all the ...
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... " but I soon discovered what was the matter . A 2 feet 10 gun , with the rib no more elevated than a 2 feet 8 gun , invariably puts the body of the charge under the mark at all distances beyond about 35 yards . I ELEVATION . 31 Elevation.
... " but I soon discovered what was the matter . A 2 feet 10 gun , with the rib no more elevated than a 2 feet 8 gun , invariably puts the body of the charge under the mark at all distances beyond about 35 yards . I ELEVATION . 31 Elevation.
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... charge going precisely to the centre . But water will demonstrate every thing , if you are attended by competent persons to take ob- servations . If the body of the charge goes to the same wrong point several times in succession , you ...
... charge going precisely to the centre . But water will demonstrate every thing , if you are attended by competent persons to take ob- servations . If the body of the charge goes to the same wrong point several times in succession , you ...
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... charge of powder , by which means the discharge of the gun becomes instan- taneous . All this , however , may be more clearly de- monstrated by a reference to the sections of the different gun breechings , of which there are now ...
... charge of powder , by which means the discharge of the gun becomes instan- taneous . All this , however , may be more clearly de- monstrated by a reference to the sections of the different gun breechings , of which there are now ...
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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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