Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - 623 páginas |
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... prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication , all needless embellishments have been avoided . By thus omitting ornamental plates on the worn - out subjects of common shooting , useless anecdotes , and other extraneous matter ...
... prevent enlarging this work to an expensive publication , all needless embellishments have been avoided . By thus omitting ornamental plates on the worn - out subjects of common shooting , useless anecdotes , and other extraneous matter ...
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... prevent , as they think , the confined air from resisting the ramrod ; which it rarely does until after you have put in the second wadding . For a duck - gun , or piece of any considerable length , the barrel should be bored so as to ...
... prevent , as they think , the confined air from resisting the ramrod ; which it rarely does until after you have put in the second wadding . For a duck - gun , or piece of any considerable length , the barrel should be bored so as to ...
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... prevent the barrel from becoming leaded ; and therefore to make it shoot , through the whole day , nearly as well as when clean , and without recoil to the shoulder . Again , a sporting - gun must , of necessity , be short , for the con ...
... prevent the barrel from becoming leaded ; and therefore to make it shoot , through the whole day , nearly as well as when clean , and without recoil to the shoulder . Again , a sporting - gun must , of necessity , be short , for the con ...
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... prevent the recoil of a large bore cannot be brought to bear so quick as a somewhat lighter gun ; and , therefore , what is gained by weight of metal might be lost in time . The only London barrel - maker , or forger , was the late Mr ...
... prevent the recoil of a large bore cannot be brought to bear so quick as a somewhat lighter gun ; and , therefore , what is gained by weight of metal might be lost in time . The only London barrel - maker , or forger , was the late Mr ...
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... prevent its breaking , must be so great , that you would soon wear out your hammers , by being obliged to use an immoderate quantity of new flints . With this , another part of the lock also is safer , because the solid cock is received ...
... prevent its breaking , must be so great , that you would soon wear out your hammers , by being obliged to use an immoderate quantity of new flints . With this , another part of the lock also is safer , because the solid cock is received ...
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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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