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Página 21
... windy day , with the two feet eight inch barrel , and try it at sixty yards , and after the shot have gone about two - thirds of the distance , they will begin to open in oblique directions , where the three feet barrel keeps the shot ...
... windy day , with the two feet eight inch barrel , and try it at sixty yards , and after the shot have gone about two - thirds of the distance , they will begin to open in oblique directions , where the three feet barrel keeps the shot ...
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... and close- ness , but a stump , or cork , in still water , to try the accurate shooting of a gun . It need scarcely be ob- served that there should not be a breath of wind when you do this . The water should be like a 30 ELEVATION .
... and close- ness , but a stump , or cork , in still water , to try the accurate shooting of a gun . It need scarcely be ob- served that there should not be a breath of wind when you do this . The water should be like a 30 ELEVATION .
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... wind . To the many , however , who fancy themselves good judges of a gun , the one might appear as perfect as the other ; and so indeed it would , to every person who examined it in the ordinary way . To inspect the inside of a barrel ...
... wind . To the many , however , who fancy themselves good judges of a gun , the one might appear as perfect as the other ; and so indeed it would , to every person who examined it in the ordinary way . To inspect the inside of a barrel ...
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... windy weather , and the impossibility of manufacturing it so well as the regular numbered shot . The reason why small shot answers best is , that it lies more compact in the barrel ; and , consequently , receives more effectually the ...
... windy weather , and the impossibility of manufacturing it so well as the regular numbered shot . The reason why small shot answers best is , that it lies more compact in the barrel ; and , consequently , receives more effectually the ...
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... windy weather ) . I may therefore venture to say that I have given this shot a pretty fair trial . It appears however that , perhaps owing to the extra price , there is now but little demand for it ; and indeed the new system of ...
... windy weather ) . I may therefore venture to say that I have given this shot a pretty fair trial . It appears however that , perhaps owing to the extra price , there is now but little demand for it ; and indeed the new system of ...
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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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