ISBN: 9780217992497

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not ill… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII Miscellaneous Shooting ''JHOUGH my principal object in writing this book is to help the man of moderate means to manage and work a shoot of his own at as small a cost as possible, some information as to the best ways of getting shooting otherwise, without being put to great expense may be of use. There are many hotels, particularly in Ireland, where the proprietors hold the shooting rights over a certain amount of country, and make this shooting free to their guests. As well as being more numerous in Ireland, the shootings attached to hotels in that country are, on the whole, rather more productive of sport, on an average, than those in England, Scotland, and Wales. In individual cases in Wales there is fair wild fowl shooting, and sometimes woodcock, but on the whole the Irish are the best. Grouse shooting, where the birds are anything but numerous and the work to get them of the roughest, may be had at several of these hotels. A good hard-working dog is a necessity in these cases. If setters are used, a brace is really wanted, for the setter cannot do as much hard work without getting knocked up as can a pointer. On the other hand, a setter will range wider, which is a great advantage where the birds are scarce. Many of the remarks which I have made about shooting partridges over dogs, apply also to this kind of grouse shooting. Work quietly up or across wind, mark carefully, and if you work up a hill, work round it in a spiral to the top, do not walk straight up it. Grouse in alighting, give a similar flutter with their wings to that given by partridges, so that will help the shooter to mark them down. Do not work down hill if you can avoid doing so. If there is high as well as low land where you are shooting, as there probably will be, alw... C. E. Walker, Books, Shooting On A Small Income; How To Shoot And The Management Of Small Shootings Books This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Archibald Constable & co., ltd. in 1900 in 345 pages; Subjects: Sports; Biography & Autobiography / Sports; Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Sports & Recreation / Football; Sports & Recreation / History; Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts & Self-Defense; Sports & Recreation / Reference; Sports & Recreation / Sociology of Sports;<

ISBN: 9780217992497

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Always insist on having an oval handle to a gun. Do not have one with too high a rib, and if you are buying a second-hand gun/ rnake sure that it does not shoot low. The strikers are the small metal pins which come through the false breech and strike the cap in the cartridge when the gun is fired. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Always insist on having an oval handle to a gun. Do not have one with too high a rib, and if you are buying a second-hand gun/ rnake sure that it does not shoot low. The strikers are the small metal pins which come through the false breech and strike the cap in the cartridge when the gun is fired. .Cast-off and cast-on, are the terms used to denote the lateral divergence of the stock from the longitudinal axis of the barrels. In cast- off the divergence is outwards, in cast-on it is inward. (See illustration.) Bend is the term used to denote the amount of divergence of the stock downwards from the longitudinal axis of the barrels. (See illustration.) The bore, gauge, or calibre of a gun is the measurement of the diameter of the inside of the barrel. -In shot guns the number of the bore is taken from the number of spherical. See Chapter II, " The Well-Fitting Gun." 1. Toe of butt. 2. Heel of butt. 3. Comb. 4. Hand or Handle. 5. False breech. 6. Fore-end. 7. Bead or Fore-sight. 8. Top rib. ric i F1C 2. Fig. 1. An exaggerated case of cast-off. A B is the longitudinal axis of the barrels. Fig. 2. The amount of bend is the distance of the heel of the butt from A B, the longitudinal axis of the barrels. lead bullets in the pound, each of which exactly fits the barrel. Thus a spherical bullet weighing- exactly of i lb, ought to exactly fit a 12-bore gun. A barrel may be either cylinder or choke. The theoretical cylinder barrel is one in which the inside measurement is the same throughout thebore. The nominal cylinder, however, has a very minute contraction at the muzzle, and practically all cylinder barrels are not true cylinders, but nominal. In the choke-bore barrel there is a contraction beginning near the muzzle. This throws a better pattern. Books, Law~~Essays, Shooting-on-a-Small-Income~~C-E-Walker, 999999999, Shooting On A Small Income, Charles Edward Walker, 0217992498, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217992497

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not ill… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII Miscellaneous Shooting ''JHOUGH my principal object in writing this book is to help the man of moderate means to manage and work a shoot of his own at as small a cost as possible, some information as to the best ways of getting shooting otherwise, without being put to great expense may be of use. There are many hotels, particularly in Ireland, where the proprietors hold the shooting rights over a certain amount of country, and make this shooting free to their guests. As well as being more numerous in Ireland, the shootings attached to hotels in that country are, on the whole, rather more productive of sport, on an average, than those in England, Scotland, and Wales. In individual cases in Wales there is fair wild fowl shooting, and sometimes woodcock, but on the whole the Irish are the best. Grouse shooting, where the birds are anything but numerous and the work to get them of the roughest, may be had at several of these hotels. A good hard-working dog is a necessity in these cases. If setters are used, a brace is really wanted, for the setter cannot do as much hard work without getting knocked up as can a pointer. On the other hand, a setter will range wider, which is a great advantage where the birds are scarce. Many of the remarks which I have made about shooting partridges over dogs, apply also to this kind of grouse shooting. Work quietly up or across wind, mark carefully, and if you work up a hill, work round it in a spiral to the top, do not walk straight up it. Grouse in alighting, give a similar flutter with their wings to that given by partridges, so that will help the shooter to mark them down. Do not work down hill if you can avoid doing so. If there is high as well as low land where you are shooting, as there probably will be, alw... C. E. Walker, Books, Shooting On A Small Income; How To Shoot And The Management Of Small Shootings Books, General Books LLC<