The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... military rifles - Robins's prophecy - The War of Independence -The Rifle Brigade - The Baker rifle - Colonel Hanger The Brunswick rifle - Slowness of loading - Expanding bullets-- Picket bullets - Minié bullet and rifle - Trials in 1852 ...
... military rifles - Robins's prophecy - The War of Independence -The Rifle Brigade - The Baker rifle - Colonel Hanger The Brunswick rifle - Slowness of loading - Expanding bullets-- Picket bullets - Minié bullet and rifle - Trials in 1852 ...
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... military sights -- Telescopic sights- Their advantages - How far suited for military purposes — The infrascope 236 CHAPTER IX Aiming - Two - eyed shooting - Aiming at a target - Use of the bar sight - Wind - gauge sights - Mental and ...
... military sights -- Telescopic sights- Their advantages - How far suited for military purposes — The infrascope 236 CHAPTER IX Aiming - Two - eyed shooting - Aiming at a target - Use of the bar sight - Wind - gauge sights - Mental and ...
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... MILITARY RIFLE SIGHTS 220 XXXVIII . MATCH RIFLE SIGHTS . LONG RANGE SIGHTS , 303 RIFLE TRAJECTORIES OF RIFLES AT 500 YARDS ; XXXIX . XL . AND TRAJECTORY OF * 303 RIFLE 1,000 YARDS IN ACTUAL PROPORTIONS 230 244 " " AT 298 LIST OF PLATES ...
... MILITARY RIFLE SIGHTS 220 XXXVIII . MATCH RIFLE SIGHTS . LONG RANGE SIGHTS , 303 RIFLE TRAJECTORIES OF RIFLES AT 500 YARDS ; XXXIX . XL . AND TRAJECTORY OF * 303 RIFLE 1,000 YARDS IN ACTUAL PROPORTIONS 230 244 " " AT 298 LIST OF PLATES ...
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... military weapon in continuous use does not begin much more than a hundred years ago , although many attempts to introduce it for troops were made at different times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . Perhaps the earliest was ...
... military weapon in continuous use does not begin much more than a hundred years ago , although many attempts to introduce it for troops were made at different times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . Perhaps the earliest was ...
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... Military Antiquities , ' in which he gives a history of the English army and of military weapons in this country from the Conquest , until the date at which he wrote , 1786 , does not even mention the rifle as a weapon . At that time ...
... Military Antiquities , ' in which he gives a history of the English army and of military weapons in this country from the Conquest , until the date at which he wrote , 1786 , does not even mention the rifle as a weapon . At that time ...
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accuracy advantage allowance ammunition angle arms arranged back position back sight Baker rifle ball barrel Bisley black powder bolt bore breech breech-loading British Brunswick rifle bull's-eye bullet butt calibre cartridge centre charge clean competition competitors cordite Crown 8vo Diagrams diameter difficulty distance effect Elcho Shield elevation Enfield Express rifle feet firing-point fitted flight fore sight give grains grooves ground Illustrations inches LEE-ENFIELD Lee-Metford loading London long ranges magazine Mannlicher mark marker Martini-Henry Match rifle Metford military rifle muzzle National Rifle Association necessary ordinary orthoptic Plate possible practice prize rapid rest rifle clubs Scientific Works published score seen Service rifle shooter shooting side Sir Henry Halford smokeless powder Snider rifle spiral sporting rifles strike target telescopic sight tion trajectory trigger velocity Volunteer weapon weight Whitworth rifle Wimbledon wind writer