The Shot-gun and Sporting Rifle: and the Dogs, Ponies, Ferrets (etc.) Used with Them in the Various Kinds of Shooting and Trapping. By Stonehenge (pseud.)Routlodge, Warne, 1859 - 448 pages |
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... Grouse Shooting - Partridge Shooting - Snipe Shooting . 14 CHAPTER IV . - COVERT SHOOTING . Pheasant Shooting - Cock Shooting - Rabbit Shooting . 56 CHAPTER V. - WILDFOWL SHOOTING . Shooting Flappers - Inland Winter Shooting - Marine ...
... Grouse Shooting - Partridge Shooting - Snipe Shooting . 14 CHAPTER IV . - COVERT SHOOTING . Pheasant Shooting - Cock Shooting - Rabbit Shooting . 56 CHAPTER V. - WILDFOWL SHOOTING . Shooting Flappers - Inland Winter Shooting - Marine ...
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... grouse and par- tridge shooting , covert shooting , & c . , giving such particular directions as will enable the tyro to master each , and beginning with those methods which are the most easily practised , and which are , at the same ...
... grouse and par- tridge shooting , covert shooting , & c . , giving such particular directions as will enable the tyro to master each , and beginning with those methods which are the most easily practised , and which are , at the same ...
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... grouse or partridges , he will assuredly be better after this practice than he was before . Sparrows are thought by some to be more useful than pigeons in teaching shooting ; but the distance within which No. 7 or 8 will kill them with ...
... grouse or partridges , he will assuredly be better after this practice than he was before . Sparrows are thought by some to be more useful than pigeons in teaching shooting ; but the distance within which No. 7 or 8 will kill them with ...
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... GROUSE SHOOTING - PARTRIDGE SHOOTING SNIPE SHOOTING . BEFORE proceeding to describe the nature of each kind of shooting , it will be necessary to allude to the varieties of grouse , partridges , and snipe respectively , to the nature of ...
... GROUSE SHOOTING - PARTRIDGE SHOOTING SNIPE SHOOTING . BEFORE proceeding to describe the nature of each kind of shooting , it will be necessary to allude to the varieties of grouse , partridges , and snipe respectively , to the nature of ...
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... grouse , which is the kind usually meant in speak- ing of grouse or grouse shooting . Black grouse are met with in the south of England , as well as in the north ; and in Scotland , and are also commonly found in Scandinavia , and ...
... grouse , which is the kind usually meant in speak- ing of grouse or grouse shooting . Black grouse are met with in the south of England , as well as in the north ; and in Scotland , and are also commonly found in Scandinavia , and ...
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adopted animal ball barrel beak better birds black grouse bore breech breech-loader breed bullet carrion crow cartridge centre chamber charge of powder cock colour common snipe dark brown deer described drachms eggs explosion fawn colour feathers female fired friction grey greyish grooves ground grouse half head HEN HARRIER inches iron keeper killed kind latter Lefaucheaux legs and toes length lever loader loading lock male mode mould muzzle muzzle-loader neck needle NEEDLE GUN nest nipple ordinary ounces pale patch percussion pheasants piece plug plumage poacher pointer rabbits ramrod recoil red deer red grouse reddish brown retriever rifle scear Scotland screw season shooter shooting shot shot-gun side snipe spaniels sportsman stoat streak surface tail coverts terrier Toho trap tridge upper velocity vermin weight wing woodcock yards young birds
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