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22 long-rifle accuracy accurate ammunition average ballistic bead big game bolt action breech bull'seye caliber cartridge chapter charge Charles Askins clean curve cylinder distance drams drop ducks feet a second fifty yards FIGURE firing fluid ounce fly wild forty yards free recoil front sight full choke gauge grains grip gun barrel half-choke hard Horace Kephart hundred yards hunting inches jacket Killing Circle killing pattern killing power length lever light line of aim loads Marl Mauser and Mannl mechanism merit metal muzzle energy muzzle velocity open sight ounce of shot pellets pounds quarter-choke rear sight recoil rifle barrel rim-fire ruffed grouse rust self-loader seventy per cent sharp-point shell short range shotguns small bore small game smokeless powder soft-nose speed Spitzer bullet SPORTING FIREARMS steel telescope sight thirty-inch circle three-fourths tion trajectory trap shooting trigger upland weapon weight Winchester
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Page 5 - ... Appleton $3; 12s 6d 799.2 "Vivid pictures of the author's adventures in Africa, where he captured animals for American zoos. The observations on animal life, intelligence, and natures are unique and entertaining." Chicago Kephart, Horace Sporting firearms. (Outing handbooks) 1912 Macmillan $1; 3s 6d 799.2 "It is assumed that the reader of this booklet is familiar with gun catalogues — hence space is saved by omitting nearly everything that catalogues have to say.
Page 101 - Get a yard or two of firm cotton flannel, thick enough so that the tip of the rod will not push through it (a stuck rod is hard to remove). From this cloth cut square wipers of such size that they will just fit snugly but can be pushed through without strain.
Page 146 - It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks ;" and yet the new trick may be a good one.
Page 105 - Whelen advises that a piece of buckskin be saturated with oil ; " once thoroughly saturated, it will last a lifetime, and is a great saver of oil.
Page 105 - The mechanism of a rifle, wherever metal parts rub together, should be kept lightly oiled with a good thin oil like
Page 5 - Let us consider rifles and shotguns from the user's standpoint, simply as tools of sport, to be judged strictly on their merits.