Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 06664251 7 THE WILD TURKEY . BEST. Front Cover.
In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 06664251 7 THE WILD TURKEY . BEST. Front Cover.
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... covers the powder , which many do 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 ...
... covers the powder , which many do 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 ...
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... cover the most trifling want of finish . For instance , examine a barrel of Mr. Lancaster in this manner , and the shade will run along it like the even surface on the flow of smooth water . But take a barrel of an inferior finisher ...
... cover the most trifling want of finish . For instance , examine a barrel of Mr. Lancaster in this manner , and the shade will run along it like the even surface on the flow of smooth water . But take a barrel of an inferior finisher ...
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... COVER . The piece of iron which holds , by a spring , the copper primer in detonaters . CUP . Concave at the top of improved breechings . ESCUTCHEONS . Pieces of silver , to prevent bolts from wearing stock ; and also the shield on ...
... COVER . The piece of iron which holds , by a spring , the copper primer in detonaters . CUP . Concave at the top of improved breechings . ESCUTCHEONS . Pieces of silver , to prevent bolts from wearing stock ; and also the shield on ...
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... cover the nipple with a deep concave head , so that scarcely any of the copper can escape , or a man may lose his eye . Several accidents have happened through the neglect of this . If , however , the concave head of the cock is too ...
... cover the nipple with a deep concave head , so that scarcely any of the copper can escape , or a man may lose his eye . Several accidents have happened through the neglect of this . If , however , the concave head of the cock is too ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All That Relates to Guns and Shooting ... Peter Hawker,William Trotter Porter Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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Página 460 - HARRY HIEOVER.- STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK; or, SPECTACLES for YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
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Página 6 - I think the work a very valuable addition to our present stock of juridical literature. It embraces all that part of Mr. Cruise's Digest which is most useful to American lawyers. But its higher value is, that it presents in a concise, but dear and exact form, the substance of American Law on the same subject. / know no work that we possess, whose practical utility it likely to be so extensively felt.
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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