The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... service . He was , perhaps , the best marksman living , and probably brought the art of rifle shooting to its highest point of perfection . He even invented a gun of that kind upon a new construction , which was said to have far ...
... service . He was , perhaps , the best marksman living , and probably brought the art of rifle shooting to its highest point of perfection . He even invented a gun of that kind upon a new construction , which was said to have far ...
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... service which had been expected , from those astonishing specimens of them that were displayed in England . Humanity cannot , however , but wish that this barbarous mode of hostility was by universal con- sent banished from the warfare ...
... service which had been expected , from those astonishing specimens of them that were displayed in England . Humanity cannot , however , but wish that this barbarous mode of hostility was by universal con- sent banished from the warfare ...
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... service in America and learnt what a formidable weapon in the hands of a skilled shot a rifle could be . Colonel Hanger , who was one of them , relates an instance bearing on the point . Writing in 1814 , having served during the war as ...
... service in America and learnt what a formidable weapon in the hands of a skilled shot a rifle could be . Colonel Hanger , who was one of them , relates an instance bearing on the point . Writing in 1814 , having served during the war as ...
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... service . General Jacob's further experiments led him to abandon the round ball in favour of a conical ball almost without a cylindrical part , and with four projections on it to fit the grooving of the rifle . The form of Minie's ...
... service . General Jacob's further experiments led him to abandon the round ball in favour of a conical ball almost without a cylindrical part , and with four projections on it to fit the grooving of the rifle . The form of Minie's ...
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... service bullet , both in the Enfield as a muzzle - loader , and in the Snider , after its conversion to breech - loading . In 1862 Mr. Metford became acquainted with the late Sir Henry Halford , who was in that year a prominent prize ...
... service bullet , both in the Enfield as a muzzle - loader , and in the Snider , after its conversion to breech - loading . In 1862 Mr. Metford became acquainted with the late Sir Henry Halford , who was in that year a prominent prize ...
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