Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 459 páginas |
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... soon after as possible , in the most specific manner ; and , before they were entered among these pages , abridged to about a tenth part of their original bulk , through consideration for the patience of the reader . Some apology may ...
... soon after as possible , in the most specific manner ; and , before they were entered among these pages , abridged to about a tenth part of their original bulk , through consideration for the patience of the reader . Some apology may ...
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... soon choked up with rust and dirt , or blown too large by repeated shooting . THE NIPPLE , OR PIVOT , Is best plain or polished ; the caps , if made well , will always keep on ; but when the pivot is made like a screw , it collects rust ...
... soon choked up with rust and dirt , or blown too large by repeated shooting . THE NIPPLE , OR PIVOT , Is best plain or polished ; the caps , if made well , will always keep on ; but when the pivot is made like a screw , it collects rust ...
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... soon , however , ( to use a sailor's expression , ) " know the trim " of his gun ; and taking all things into consideration , most probably shoot still more accurately with a detonater than he had been used to do with a flint , by ...
... soon , however , ( to use a sailor's expression , ) " know the trim " of his gun ; and taking all things into consideration , most probably shoot still more accurately with a detonater than he had been used to do with a flint , by ...
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... soon makes cold , and therefore the plate requires to be two or three times heated . Nothing preserves the strength of powder better than , after being dried , to put it into canisters , securely corked from the air . Beware of going ...
... soon makes cold , and therefore the plate requires to be two or three times heated . Nothing preserves the strength of powder better than , after being dried , to put it into canisters , securely corked from the air . Beware of going ...
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... soon be- come perfectly collected . The intermediate lesson of a few shots , at small birds , may be given ; but this plan throughout must be adopted at game , and continued , in the first instance , till the pupil has quite divested ...
... soon be- come perfectly collected . The intermediate lesson of a few shots , at small birds , may be given ; but this plan throughout must be adopted at game , and continued , in the first instance , till the pupil has quite divested ...
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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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