Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - 623 páginas |
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... least explained by other authors . So much , indeed , has been published , by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that little remains to be said on the subject . The pursuit of game is already too well known to ...
... least explained by other authors . So much , indeed , has been published , by more able writers , on field sports of every description , that little remains to be said on the subject . The pursuit of game is already too well known to ...
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... least a few years , and therefore inflicted on my . publishers treble doses of copies ; or , seriously speak- ing , I gave very large impressions of the seventh and eighth editions . About four years and a half had elapsed since the ...
... least a few years , and therefore inflicted on my . publishers treble doses of copies ; or , seriously speak- ing , I gave very large impressions of the seventh and eighth editions . About four years and a half had elapsed since the ...
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... the profile of the bend , all the way from the upper part of the but to the breeching . By later experience , I should say even farther still . Let the profile extend at least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? D 2 STOCK . 35.
... the profile of the bend , all the way from the upper part of the but to the breeching . By later experience , I should say even farther still . Let the profile extend at least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? D 2 STOCK . 35.
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Peter Hawker. at least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? Because you may have two stocks as much alike as if cast in the same mould all the way to the breeching , and yet the barrels , by being sunk deeper in the wood , may point so ...
Peter Hawker. at least a foot beyond the breeching . Why ? Because you may have two stocks as much alike as if cast in the same mould all the way to the breeching , and yet the barrels , by being sunk deeper in the wood , may point so ...
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... least those with caps ) were re- peatedly missing fire ! This happens to be a self - primer , and the only one that I have ever yet seen that does not go slow . Two other kinds of self - primers were brought out by two great makers ...
... least those with caps ) were re- peatedly missing fire ! This happens to be a self - primer , and the only one that I have ever yet seen that does not go slow . Two other kinds of self - primers were brought out by two great makers ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker Vista completa - 1844 |
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