The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... ground , and ever observed it with the greatest attention ; and I can positively assert that the distance he fired from , at us , was full four hundred yards . ' THE BRUNSWICK RIFLE 1 31 Colonel Hanger proposed to arm 30 THE BOOK OF THE ...
... ground , and ever observed it with the greatest attention ; and I can positively assert that the distance he fired from , at us , was full four hundred yards . ' THE BRUNSWICK RIFLE 1 31 Colonel Hanger proposed to arm 30 THE BOOK OF THE ...
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... ground for many years , and AAH FIG . 19 FIG . 20 FIG . 21 various alterations were made at different times in the bullet used . The Pritchett bullet of 1853 had a hollow base with no plug or cup ( fig . 19 ) . A hollow of a different ...
... ground for many years , and AAH FIG . 19 FIG . 20 FIG . 21 various alterations were made at different times in the bullet used . The Pritchett bullet of 1853 had a hollow base with no plug or cup ( fig . 19 ) . A hollow of a different ...
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... ground of the obscuration of aim by the smoke of the discharge was entirely removed if smokeless powder was to be adopted . The Martini action could not be used with a magazine . The Committee had before them all the magazine actions of ...
... ground of the obscuration of aim by the smoke of the discharge was entirely removed if smokeless powder was to be adopted . The Martini action could not be used with a magazine . The Committee had before them all the magazine actions of ...
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... ground . Single- barrelled shot - guns , with mechanism actuated by a moveable handle in the fore end , operated by the left hand , are some- times used in America and by a very few sportsmen in this country . The power of firing five ...
... ground . Single- barrelled shot - guns , with mechanism actuated by a moveable handle in the fore end , operated by the left hand , are some- times used in America and by a very few sportsmen in this country . The power of firing five ...
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... ground in the face of infantry holding a position . Concealment in war has now been raised to the level of a first necessity , and the practice of it is almost a fine art . It follows that the occasions for shooting in the lying - down ...
... ground in the face of infantry holding a position . Concealment in war has now been raised to the level of a first necessity , and the practice of it is almost a fine art . It follows that the occasions for shooting in the lying - down ...
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