Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... answers best , according to the different sizes of the Guns that are used · · 123 124 125 NEW DUCK - GUN WADDING 125 WATER BOOTS 126 WATER - PROOF DRESSING FOR SHOES , & c . SHOES , 127 New Plan for Shoe - making 128 CORNS 128 Corn ...
... answers best , according to the different sizes of the Guns that are used · · 123 124 125 NEW DUCK - GUN WADDING 125 WATER BOOTS 126 WATER - PROOF DRESSING FOR SHOES , & c . SHOES , 127 New Plan for Shoe - making 128 CORNS 128 Corn ...
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... answer to those who deprecate the idea of giving a good price for a gun , that the workmen employed by the first makers re- quire wages and indulgence , in proportion to their skill in the respective branches of the business ; and it ...
... answer to those who deprecate the idea of giving a good price for a gun , that the workmen employed by the first makers re- quire wages and indulgence , in proportion to their skill in the respective branches of the business ; and it ...
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... answer best ; and therefore we require more weight of metal , in order to ease the recoil of a charge that is longer detained in the barrel . Thus the detonat- ing system simplifies the boring to the whole trade , as well as the art of ...
... answer best ; and therefore we require more weight of metal , in order to ease the recoil of a charge that is longer detained in the barrel . Thus the detonat- ing system simplifies the boring to the whole trade , as well as the art of ...
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... answer that purpose . In answer to many absurd arguments in favour of short guns , and observations about " lateral pressure , " I shall here subjoin a schedule , in order to show how were bored the five best guns I ever saw fired ...
... answer that purpose . In answer to many absurd arguments in favour of short guns , and observations about " lateral pressure , " I shall here subjoin a schedule , in order to show how were bored the five best guns I ever saw fired ...
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... answer well ; but I dislike all the others , both for use and appearance . The stocks of single guns are generally ... answers best , as a butt too much loaded is apt to hang on the right hand in bringing it up , and vice versâ , on the ...
... answer well ; but I dislike all the others , both for use and appearance . The stocks of single guns are generally ... answers best , as a butt too much loaded is apt to hang on the right hand in bringing it up , and vice versâ , on the ...
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Página 383 - tis merry in good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer pass by, the hounds are in cry And the hunter's horn is ringing.
Página 322 - My companion, a stout, hale and athletic man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle, which, as he was loading it, he said had proved efficient in all his former undertakings, and which he hoped would not fail on this occasion, as he felt proud to show me his skill. The gun was wiped, the powder measured, the ball patched with six-hundred-thread linen, and the charge sent home with a hickory rod.
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