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... involving little trouble after the day's sport be over; the wiping out of the barrels
alone sufficing, an operation easily performed in a couple of minutes : with the
locks interference is rarely necessary. As regards good shooting, I have
witnessed ...
... involving little trouble after the day's sport be over; the wiping out of the barrels
alone sufficing, an operation easily performed in a couple of minutes : with the
locks interference is rarely necessary. As regards good shooting, I have
witnessed ...
Side 5
Then comes the monster grievance, the ramrod, with the eternal ramming down
after every right and left, surpassed only and aggravated by the more
disagreeable and sometimes dangerous but necessary operation of drawing a
charge, ...
Then comes the monster grievance, the ramrod, with the eternal ramming down
after every right and left, surpassed only and aggravated by the more
disagreeable and sometimes dangerous but necessary operation of drawing a
charge, ...
Side 6
Yet notwithstanding the fearful amount of casualties incident to the use of the
muzzle-loader, some of the old school pertinaciously adhere to it, and profess to
like the operation of loading with the ramrod, and wish to make us believe that
the ...
Yet notwithstanding the fearful amount of casualties incident to the use of the
muzzle-loader, some of the old school pertinaciously adhere to it, and profess to
like the operation of loading with the ramrod, and wish to make us believe that
the ...
Side 8
It is incorrect to assert that there is any danger of an explosion arising from this
simple operation, as the withdrawal being in an horizontal direction, the end of
the pin cannot be brought into forcible collision with the cap so as to cause
ignition, ...
It is incorrect to assert that there is any danger of an explosion arising from this
simple operation, as the withdrawal being in an horizontal direction, the end of
the pin cannot be brought into forcible collision with the cap so as to cause
ignition, ...
Side 12
The operation of bringing the lever home to its proper position is so easy and
simple that it is difficult to suppose that any sportsman would either neglect to
perform or in any way mismanage it ; in fact if an attempt were made to raise the
gun to ...
The operation of bringing the lever home to its proper position is so easy and
simple that it is difficult to suppose that any sportsman would either neglect to
perform or in any way mismanage it ; in fact if an attempt were made to raise the
gun to ...
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