Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting: With Explanatory Plates and WoodcutsPeter Hawker, Peter William Lanoe Hawker Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1859 - 548 страници |
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... bird's - eye view of ditto " end on " " · Commencement of a Cripple - chase , after firing 2lbs . of Shot into a ... birds here shown are fastened to the lines , the Decoy Ducks and Mallards ; in the killed and wounded , the Pintail ...
... bird's - eye view of ditto " end on " " · Commencement of a Cripple - chase , after firing 2lbs . of Shot into a ... birds here shown are fastened to the lines , the Decoy Ducks and Mallards ; in the killed and wounded , the Pintail ...
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... birds in a handsomer style , than you had ever done while whimsically following other plans . For my own part , I should scarcely ever , with a small gun , use any other shot , except for killing snipes in Feb- ruary and March , when ...
... birds in a handsomer style , than you had ever done while whimsically following other plans . For my own part , I should scarcely ever , with a small gun , use any other shot , except for killing snipes in Feb- ruary and March , when ...
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... birds ; as at any distance snipes will fly away with it , if shot in the body ; and to break a bone with it , the bird must be very close : add to which , its disadvantage in windy weather , and the impossibility of manufacturing it so ...
... birds ; as at any distance snipes will fly away with it , if shot in the body ; and to break a bone with it , the bird must be very close : add to which , its disadvantage in windy weather , and the impossibility of manufacturing it so ...
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... birds close to his feet , and keep aiming at one till the covey had flown thirty or forty yards , and even bring down his bird dead , and another man miss both barrels , within the same distance , I should say perhaps the latter , if in ...
... birds close to his feet , and keep aiming at one till the covey had flown thirty or forty yards , and even bring down his bird dead , and another man miss both barrels , within the same distance , I should say perhaps the latter , if in ...
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... birds enough to fire fifty times , within forty yards , and perhaps , being a reputation shooter , only twenty of these shots happen to suit his fancy . He never fires a second barrel unless the birds rise one at a time , or a covey ...
... birds enough to fire fifty times , within forty yards , and perhaps , being a reputation shooter , only twenty of these shots happen to suit his fancy . He never fires a second barrel unless the birds rise one at a time , or a covey ...
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