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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... taken up his pen with the determination of neither borrowing , without proper acknowledgment , from other works , nor trusting to any thing from the experiments of other persons . From having thus declined all assistance , and wholly ...
... taken up his pen with the determination of neither borrowing , without proper acknowledgment , from other works , nor trusting to any thing from the experiments of other persons . From having thus declined all assistance , and wholly ...
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... ( Taken by Mr. Varley , with his Graphic Telescope ) . 437 Hut Shooting , on the French System . ( The principal birds here shown are fastened to the lines , the Decoy Ducks and Mallards ; in the killed and wounded , the Pintail , the ...
... ( Taken by Mr. Varley , with his Graphic Telescope ) . 437 Hut Shooting , on the French System . ( The principal birds here shown are fastened to the lines , the Decoy Ducks and Mallards ; in the killed and wounded , the Pintail , the ...
Page xxvii
... taken from Trespassers Mode of payment for Penalties Imprisonment on failure of payment Form of Conviction · • Time for prosecutions for penalties , & c . No evasion , for want of form , to be allowed Option for prosecutor to proceed by ...
... taken from Trespassers Mode of payment for Penalties Imprisonment on failure of payment Form of Conviction · • Time for prosecutions for penalties , & c . No evasion , for want of form , to be allowed Option for prosecutor to proceed by ...
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... taken , like a wife , " for better , for worse ; " and the sportsmen in the one as well as in the other , must be content to abide the chances of a lottery . BARRELS . I shall now proceed to the particulars of what a gun should be , and ...
... taken , like a wife , " for better , for worse ; " and the sportsmen in the one as well as in the other , must be content to abide the chances of a lottery . BARRELS . I shall now proceed to the particulars of what a gun should be , and ...
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... taken three of the largest - sized guns , because a little sporting - gun is on so small a scale , that although the relief may be felt in a moment by passing a proper gauge of lead through the caliber , yet the barrel is so diminutive ...
... taken three of the largest - sized guns , because a little sporting - gun is on so small a scale , that although the relief may be felt in a moment by passing a proper gauge of lead through the caliber , yet the barrel is so diminutive ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker No preview available - 2012 |
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