The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... Range - finding instru- ments - Density of air - Temperature -- Atmospheric pressure- Head - winds and cross - winds - Variable currents - Flags and mirage - Wind affecting elevation - Peculiarities of ranges- Flags Wind judgment and ...
... Range - finding instru- ments - Density of air - Temperature -- Atmospheric pressure- Head - winds and cross - winds - Variable currents - Flags and mirage - Wind affecting elevation - Peculiarities of ranges- Flags Wind judgment and ...
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... ranges - Underground ranges -- Iron targets and methods of marking with them -- The ringing bull's - eye 369 CHAPTER XV Penetrable targets now used - Their endurance - Windmill and Jeffries targets - Method of marking - Foreign range ...
... ranges - Underground ranges -- Iron targets and methods of marking with them -- The ringing bull's - eye 369 CHAPTER XV Penetrable targets now used - Their endurance - Windmill and Jeffries targets - Method of marking - Foreign range ...
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... range . He speaks of the ill effect of volees ' at more than forty paces at the furthest , but allows the effectiveness of fire from caliuers ' and harquebuzes ' at the very shortest distances . With these two weapons no rest was used ...
... range . He speaks of the ill effect of volees ' at more than forty paces at the furthest , but allows the effectiveness of fire from caliuers ' and harquebuzes ' at the very shortest distances . With these two weapons no rest was used ...
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... range with any degree of cer- tainty . ' He goes on to say that if he increased the powder- charge to get a greater range he found the bullet strip , i.e. pass over the grooving altogether ; and as the result of experiments , he came to ...
... range with any degree of cer- tainty . ' He goes on to say that if he increased the powder- charge to get a greater range he found the bullet strip , i.e. pass over the grooving altogether ; and as the result of experiments , he came to ...
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... range for accurate shooting with the round bullet was further limited by the fact that its axis of rotation re- tained the original direction even when , owing to the curve of the trajectory , the bullet was moving at a very different ...
... range for accurate shooting with the round bullet was further limited by the fact that its axis of rotation re- tained the original direction even when , owing to the curve of the trajectory , the bullet was moving at a very different ...
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