Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... nearly equal velocity . Still , however , fortunately for the leading gun- makers , there are yet left many requisites which induce good sportsmen , though a much smaller number than formerly , to go to the heads of the trade : viz . 1 ...
... nearly equal velocity . Still , however , fortunately for the leading gun- makers , there are yet left many requisites which induce good sportsmen , though a much smaller number than formerly , to go to the heads of the trade : viz . 1 ...
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... nearly all the shot to drop into the mark ( a common trick , when an old hand wishes to sell a gun to a cockney , or win the Christmas prize at an alehouse by shooting at a mark ) . But enough of imperfections ; and now for what a ...
... nearly all the shot to drop into the mark ( a common trick , when an old hand wishes to sell a gun to a cockney , or win the Christmas prize at an alehouse by shooting at a mark ) . But enough of imperfections ; and now for what a ...
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... nearly so , with a few inches ' relief forward , is now found to 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 ...
... nearly so , with a few inches ' relief forward , is now found to 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 ...
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... nearly , or quite as well , if two feet long , as one of greater length , because a superfluity of what may be strictly called " lateral pressure " would do more harm than good , by checking , instead of assisting the force of the ...
... nearly , or quite as well , if two feet long , as one of greater length , because a superfluity of what may be strictly called " lateral pressure " would do more harm than good , by checking , instead of assisting the force of the ...
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... nearly as well as when clean , and without recoil to the shoulder . Again , a sport- ing - gun must , of necessity , be short , for the convenience of covert , and snap - shooting ; and therefore the length that would properly suit that ...
... nearly as well as when clean , and without recoil to the shoulder . Again , a sport- ing - gun must , of necessity , be short , for the convenience of covert , and snap - shooting ; and therefore the length that would properly suit that ...
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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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