Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... eight out of ten . Formerly , shooting required art and nerve - now , for tolerable shooting ( at all events for the use of one barrel ) nerve alone is sufficient . Formerly , a first - rate gun was a sine quâ non ; now the most that we ...
... eight out of ten . Formerly , shooting required art and nerve - now , for tolerable shooting ( at all events for the use of one barrel ) nerve alone is sufficient . Formerly , a first - rate gun was a sine quâ non ; now the most that we ...
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... eight for a single gun . I allude to those who , on being shown a superior one , would view it like a fossil or a picture ; and , on being requested to " feel how fine the lock is , " thrust their forefingers as far as they can into the ...
... eight for a single gun . I allude to those who , on being shown a superior one , would view it like a fossil or a picture ; and , on being requested to " feel how fine the lock is , " thrust their forefingers as far as they can into the ...
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... eight inches long , we would say ( beginning at the breech end ) about six inches tight ( if for a flint ) ; twenty - one inches a cylinder ; and the remaining five inches relieved to the muzzle . All this must be done with the most ...
... eight inches long , we would say ( beginning at the breech end ) about six inches tight ( if for a flint ) ; twenty - one inches a cylinder ; and the remaining five inches relieved to the muzzle . All this must be done with the most ...
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... eight , nor more than three feet in length . My readers will observe that my remarks here have been altered since publishing the earlier editions . The late Mr. Joseph Manton , who knew more about a gun than any man in Europe , assured ...
... eight , nor more than three feet in length . My readers will observe that my remarks here have been altered since publishing the earlier editions . The late Mr. Joseph Manton , who knew more about a gun than any man in Europe , assured ...
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... eight inches , or forty - four diameters , at a gunmaker's iron door , against one of three feet , and there will probably be no differ- ence . But go out in an open field , and particularly on a windy day , with the two feet eight inch ...
... eight inches , or forty - four diameters , at a gunmaker's iron door , against one of three feet , and there will probably be no differ- ence . But go out in an open field , and particularly on a windy day , with the two feet eight inch ...
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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 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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