Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting: With Explanatory Plates and WoodcutsPeter Hawker, Peter William Lanoe Hawker |
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... RISING GENERATION IN AN ART FOR WHICH WE HAVE LONG BEEN THE FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD , AND AN EXERCISE ACKnowledged AS BEING CALCULATED TO INVIGORATE US FOR THE SERVICE OF OUR KING AND COUNTRY IS WITH GRACIOUS PERMISSION MOST ...
... RISING GENERATION IN AN ART FOR WHICH WE HAVE LONG BEEN THE FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD , AND AN EXERCISE ACKnowledged AS BEING CALCULATED TO INVIGORATE US FOR THE SERVICE OF OUR KING AND COUNTRY IS WITH GRACIOUS PERMISSION MOST ...
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... rising , and not moving horizontally , as it appears to do ; and therefore a gun that would per- form well at a dead mark would shoot so much below the bird , as for the body of the charge to take only his breast and legs , however ...
... rising , and not moving horizontally , as it appears to do ; and therefore a gun that would per- form well at a dead mark would shoot so much below the bird , as for the body of the charge to take only his breast and legs , however ...
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... rising , and not at a straight - forward - going bird ; and that if a good shot misses through being nervous , it is almost always because his left hand drops as he flinches ; we should rarely err by some- what over - elevating our guns ...
... rising , and not at a straight - forward - going bird ; and that if a good shot misses through being nervous , it is almost always because his left hand drops as he flinches ; we should rarely err by some- what over - elevating our guns ...
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... rising of birds , in which case you may be permitted to await a leisure opportunity . No- thing is more absurd , if a gun has been washed , than dirtying it , long before there is any occasion for so doing , by what is called squibbing ...
... rising of birds , in which case you may be permitted to await a leisure opportunity . No- thing is more absurd , if a gun has been washed , than dirtying it , long before there is any occasion for so doing , by what is called squibbing ...
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... rise , by a quicker fire , it could not reach that long shot range , which the slower flint so often enabled it to attain ; and which his man had so much admired when his master brought the bird down at long shot distance with the flint ...
... rise , by a quicker fire , it could not reach that long shot range , which the slower flint so often enabled it to attain ; and which his man had so much admired when his master brought the bird down at long shot distance with the flint ...
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