Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... keeping Grouse , so as to send them any distance in the hottest weather , ) 100 Cock Shooting 101 Snipe Shooting 101 To preserve and choose Birds 104 Recipe for sauce to wildfowl - 106 DOGS ( concise directions for breaking and managing ) ...
... keeping Grouse , so as to send them any distance in the hottest weather , ) 100 Cock Shooting 101 Snipe Shooting 101 To preserve and choose Birds 104 Recipe for sauce to wildfowl - 106 DOGS ( concise directions for breaking and managing ) ...
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... keep the charge together for a second explosion , which takes place a little before the shot has reached the object . It is one thing to speak of things plausibly , another to state them correctly . In the following schedule I have ...
... keep the charge together for a second explosion , which takes place a little before the shot has reached the object . It is one thing to speak of things plausibly , another to state them correctly . In the following schedule I have ...
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... keep the ball in the straightest possible direction , and regulate the barrel to the most accurate line of aim . This should be done by having the gun of the utmost length that can be used , and steadied by immense substance and weight ...
... keep the ball in the straightest possible direction , and regulate the barrel to the most accurate line of aim . This should be done by having the gun of the utmost length that can be used , and steadied by immense substance and weight ...
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... a short one . On the contrary , I have now proved that a short gun has no chance with a long one , in keeping the shot well together at long distances . The experiment must not be tried with little pop - 30 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
... a short one . On the contrary , I have now proved that a short gun has no chance with a long one , in keeping the shot well together at long distances . The experiment must not be tried with little pop - 30 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
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... keeps the shot together . For instance : Take a funnel ( or a paper cut triangularly like one ) four inches in diameter , pin up a sheet of brown paper , and stand at three or four yards from it . Then look along either edge of the ...
... keeps the shot together . For instance : Take a funnel ( or a paper cut triangularly like one ) four inches in diameter , pin up a sheet of brown paper , and stand at three or four yards from it . Then look along either edge of 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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