Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... killed by a long shot , has been struck with four or five pellets , their gun will always be certain of doing execution at the same distance , if properly directed . But so far is this from being the case , that it may proceed from the ...
... killed by a long shot , has been struck with four or five pellets , their gun will always be certain of doing execution at the same distance , if properly directed . But so far is this from being the case , that it may proceed from the ...
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... killing to the shooter . With longer and heavier guns , we may take still further advantage , and have a little opening be- hind . All this relief must be given in a very trifling degree ; because , should the barrel be too much opened ...
... killing to the shooter . With longer and heavier guns , we may take still further advantage , and have a little opening be- hind . All this relief must be given in a very trifling degree ; because , should the barrel be too much opened ...
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... considered , that a fourteen gauge is at all events the best for a bungler , and , on the whole , the most destructive gun . But , with a very accurate shot , the size is not of so much consequence for killing 32 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
... considered , that a fourteen gauge is at all events the best for a bungler , and , on the whole , the most destructive gun . But , with a very accurate shot , the size is not of so much consequence for killing 32 GUNS AND GUNMAKERS .
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... killing game , as the necessary substance to 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 ...
... killing game , as the necessary substance to 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 ...
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... kill the furthest . They talk nonsense ; but still the short guns have often shown off best in the field . Why is it because the gunmakers regulate their elevations to shoot well to the bull's eye ; whereas they ought to shoot above the ...
... kill the furthest . They talk nonsense ; but still the short guns have often shown off best in the field . Why is it because the gunmakers regulate their elevations to shoot well to the bull's eye ; whereas they ought to shoot above the ...
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Página 460 - HARRY HIEOVER.- STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK; or, SPECTACLES for YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
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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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