The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... wind - The notch and the bar - Fore sights - The bead sight - Protection by a hood - Sporting back sights and fore sights - The Lewes sight --- Orthoptic sights - Match rifle sights -- Warping and loosening of the stock . 213 CHAPTER ...
... wind - The notch and the bar - Fore sights - The bead sight - Protection by a hood - Sporting back sights and fore sights - The Lewes sight --- Orthoptic sights - Match rifle sights -- Warping and loosening of the stock . 213 CHAPTER ...
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... wind . In the description just quoted we see all the difficulties of the muzzle - loading rifle appreciated , the chief being the uselessness of a loose ball and the difficulty of loading with The adarme = 1 oz . 16 a tight one owing to ...
... wind . In the description just quoted we see all the difficulties of the muzzle - loading rifle appreciated , the chief being the uselessness of a loose ball and the difficulty of loading with The adarme = 1 oz . 16 a tight one owing to ...
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... wind was stirring . Colonel Tarleton's horse and mine , I am certain , were not anything like two feet apart ; for we were in close consultation , how we should attack with our troops , which laid 300 yards in the wood , and could not ...
... wind was stirring . Colonel Tarleton's horse and mine , I am certain , were not anything like two feet apart ; for we were in close consultation , how we should attack with our troops , which laid 300 yards in the wood , and could not ...
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... to roll upon the air . Mr. Baker , who only a hundred years ago thought it necessary to try careful ex- periments to prove that a side wind does affect the flight of IG . 5 the bullet , speaks of 200 yards as the greatest.
... to roll upon the air . Mr. Baker , who only a hundred years ago thought it necessary to try careful ex- periments to prove that a side wind does affect the flight of IG . 5 the bullet , speaks of 200 yards as the greatest.
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... wind has been calm , and that at 400 and 500 yards he has frequently fired , and sometimes struck the object . But he was evidently very hopeless about making good practice at so great a distance . The third drawback of the spherical ...
... wind has been calm , and that at 400 and 500 yards he has frequently fired , and sometimes struck the object . But he was evidently very hopeless about making good practice at so great a distance . The third drawback of the spherical ...
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