Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and ShootingLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - 623 sider |
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... liable to let even fair shots escape through an interval . Indeed , the effect of this mode of boring might be equally well produced by wetting the shot , or loading with very little powder , and elevating so as for nearly all the shot ...
... liable to let even fair shots escape through an interval . Indeed , the effect of this mode of boring might be equally well produced by wetting the shot , or loading with very little powder , and elevating so as for nearly all the shot ...
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... bad ; as a barrel , which is everywhere tolerably stout , is not so liable to expansion , and , consequently , will shoot stronger , and last many more years , than one which is rendered so by being in any part too thin 22 BARRELS .
... bad ; as a barrel , which is everywhere tolerably stout , is not so liable to expansion , and , consequently , will shoot stronger , and last many more years , than one which is rendered so by being in any part too thin 22 BARRELS .
Side 25
... liable to open , if not to burst , than a continued round of solid well - beat iron . It may be compared to a piece of wood cut across , instead of with , the grain . All this may be easily demonstrated , by putting some acid to eat ...
... liable to open , if not to burst , than a continued round of solid well - beat iron . It may be compared to a piece of wood cut across , instead of with , the grain . All this may be easily demonstrated , by putting some acid to eat ...
Side 39
... liable to repeated flashes in the pan , as well as more difficult to see through ( for ascertaining that all is clean and safe ) , when held to the light . Let me now conclude my observations on the fore- going gun breechings by ...
... liable to repeated flashes in the pan , as well as more difficult to see through ( for ascertaining that all is clean and safe ) , when held to the light . Let me now conclude my observations on the fore- going gun breechings by ...
Side 41
... liable to become corroded , and , there- fore , sometimes difficult to be taken out . Excepting for these defects , the chamber plug is much to be recom- mended ; and having recourse to it , is almost the only way that an old gun can be ...
... liable to become corroded , and , there- fore , sometimes difficult to be taken out . Excepting for these defects , the chamber plug is much to be recom- mended ; and having recourse to it , is almost the only way that an old gun can be ...
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Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting Peter Hawker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1844 |
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