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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... course , remain as before , for the benefit of younger pupils in shooting . But every thing that could be improved , up to the present year , is introduced on a different , and , he trusts , a more perfect system . All the new ...
... course , remain as before , for the benefit of younger pupils in shooting . But every thing that could be improved , up to the present year , is introduced on a different , and , he trusts , a more perfect system . All the new ...
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... course excepting him- self ) ; and his answer was , " Purdey gets up the best work , next to mine . " This was when Purdey occupied a small shop in Princes - street . Lancaster , who had raised many gunmakers to the trade by allowing ...
... course excepting him- self ) ; and his answer was , " Purdey gets up the best work , next to mine . " This was when Purdey occupied a small shop in Princes - street . Lancaster , who had raised many gunmakers to the trade by allowing ...
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... course , as every one does , shot more accurately , and missed fewer quick shots , with the detonater . But , to return more generally to the subject of all guns , let me observe , as before , in answer to those who deprecate the idea ...
... course , as every one does , shot more accurately , and missed fewer quick shots , with the detonater . But , to return more generally to the subject of all guns , let me observe , as before , in answer to those who deprecate the idea ...
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... that impetus , or friction , which the shot receives while passing through the cylindrical part of the caliber ) makes the gun shoot so slow , that the sportsman often fires behind his game ; and , of course , so 10 BARRELS .
... that impetus , or friction , which the shot receives while passing through the cylindrical part of the caliber ) makes the gun shoot so slow , that the sportsman often fires behind his game ; and , of course , so 10 BARRELS .
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... course , so weak , though well directed , that instead of his birds dying in the air , they are brought down in a slovenly manner , and half of them escape being bagged , although their skins may be filled with shot enough to make a ...
... course , so weak , though well directed , that instead of his birds dying in the air , they are brought down in a slovenly manner , and half of them escape being bagged , although their skins may be filled with shot enough to make a ...
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