Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - 623 páginas |
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Página xv
... Curlew , dead Coot , & c . ( From the original Aqua tinta of the late Wm . Daniell , Esq . , R. A. ) 462 Head of Wild and Tame Swan , in justa - position , from nature 472 New and long - lasting mode of fixing to the stick , and pre ...
... Curlew , dead Coot , & c . ( From the original Aqua tinta of the late Wm . Daniell , Esq . , R. A. ) 462 Head of Wild and Tame Swan , in justa - position , from nature 472 New and long - lasting mode of fixing to the stick , and pre ...
Página xxiii
... this mode of easing the recoil , I think , may be adapted as here shown ; but for car- ronades , it would , I presume , require a somewhat different construction . Page ARTIFICIAL ISLAND FOR CURLEWS , & c .......... 481 CONTENTS . xxiii.
... this mode of easing the recoil , I think , may be adapted as here shown ; but for car- ronades , it would , I presume , require a somewhat different construction . Page ARTIFICIAL ISLAND FOR CURLEWS , & c .......... 481 CONTENTS . xxiii.
Página xxiv
Peter Hawker. Page ARTIFICIAL ISLAND FOR CURLEWS , & c .......... 481 Observations on the Coast - gunning of 1840 and 1841. 483 Trial of Eley's Cartridges , off Keyhaven , on the 15th of March , 1841 486 Observations on the Coast ...
Peter Hawker. Page ARTIFICIAL ISLAND FOR CURLEWS , & c .......... 481 Observations on the Coast - gunning of 1840 and 1841. 483 Trial of Eley's Cartridges , off Keyhaven , on the 15th of March , 1841 486 Observations on the Coast ...
Página 120
... found 11 of the birds . quite dead , and the other giving his last kick . Now , on the other hand , to long distances : - I fired a cartridge , from the same lot , at not more than 100 curlews , on the ice , at about 140 yards 120 SHOT .
... found 11 of the birds . quite dead , and the other giving his last kick . Now , on the other hand , to long distances : - I fired a cartridge , from the same lot , at not more than 100 curlews , on the ice , at about 140 yards 120 SHOT .
Página 121
Peter Hawker. curlews , on the ice , at about 140 yards . I picked up 28 of them ; and nearly a score more escaped , wing- broken , across the creeks . Now for a proof of the small cartridges . I fired above a gross of them in stopping ...
Peter Hawker. curlews , on the ice , at about 140 yards . I picked up 28 of them ; and nearly a score more escaped , wing- broken , across the creeks . Now for a proof of the small cartridges . I fired above a gross of them in stopping ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker Visualização integral - 1844 |
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