Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... pieces To put it together again · Alphabetical List of names of the principal parts of a Gun Directions for cleaning Guns , and precautions against their hang- ing fire Gravitating Stops 3 * 558 ; & 33 34 37 37 39 40 41 *** 42 44 45 47 ...
... pieces To put it together again · Alphabetical List of names of the principal parts of a Gun Directions for cleaning Guns , and precautions against their hang- ing fire Gravitating Stops 3 * 558 ; & 33 34 37 37 39 40 41 *** 42 44 45 47 ...
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... piece of any considerable length , the barrel should be bored so as to feel more and more tight on ramming down the wadding , particularly on coming just above where the shot lies ; and with a very little opening , from where the shot ...
... piece of any considerable length , the barrel should be bored so as to feel more and more tight on ramming down the wadding , particularly on coming just above where the shot lies ; and with a very little opening , from where the shot ...
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... pieces of mechanism of the present age - Mr . Purdey's double rifles , and the new - invented machines that Greenfield has made for rifling barrels . But to say what is here due to these excellent artists might lead me into a detail ...
... pieces of mechanism of the present age - Mr . Purdey's double rifles , and the new - invented machines that Greenfield has made for rifling barrels . But to say what is here due to these excellent artists might lead me into a detail ...
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... piece of wood for the but , and will thus admit of the stock being made light and elegant . In choosing the size of a caliber , it may be considered , that a fourteen gauge is at all events the best for a bungler , and , on the whole ...
... piece of wood for the but , and will thus admit of the stock being made light and elegant . In choosing the size of a caliber , it may be considered , that a fourteen gauge is at all events the best for a bungler , and , on the whole ...
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... piece of wood cut across , instead of with the grain . All this may be easily demonstrated , by putting some acid to ... pieces with the common charge . Now , however , 34 DAMASCUS BARRELS . Damascus Barrels Elevation.
... piece of wood cut across , instead of with the grain . All this may be easily demonstrated , by putting some acid to ... pieces with the common charge . Now , however , 34 DAMASCUS BARRELS . Damascus Barrels Elevation.
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